Think of your prospectus as your working paper of your idea. It is your blueprint, however, it does need full committee approval and approval from Academic Review. Your proposal is Chapters 1-3 of your dissertation. Again, this needs full committee approval and approval from Academic Review. This is the fine print of your blueprint. You […]
What is a Dissertation and when do I need to start thinking about mine? A dissertation is an original paper that critically evaluates and summarizes an area of research, identifies a problem (or gap in the research), proposes and then conducts an original study that aims to find solutions to this identified problem. Thus, the […]
As a lay audience, it is possible to understand what it meant to be positively correlated or negatively correlated. Pearson correlation coefficient has a standard index with a range value from -1.0 to +1.0, and with 0 specifying no relationship (Laureate Education, 2016b). The closer we move to the value of 1 the stronger the […]
Our daily lives revolve around things that we cannot control. Before we step out the front door we ask, will it rain today? What is the chance of getting stuck in traffic? Or better yet, will my class be cancelled? Even though Dietz & Kalof (2009) suggest how life is uncontrollable, however; people try to […]
Project Ready Smile (PRS) provides services to children in selected early childhood settings in the six targeted counties in Missouri. ECC or early childhood carriers sites agree to support the project while providing access to children. Children were found with abscesses and tooth decay that had already spread through their mouth. PRS is an initiative […]
I was once told that a good sample is not good in terms of size or generalizability. A good sample requires an understanding of purposeful sample strategies. Ineffectiveness in data saturation is the failure to reach saturation point that can hampers content and research validity (Fusch & Ness, 2015). Additionally, data saturation is reached when there is enough […]
Community involvement is an important part of social change- whether it entails planning to engage community participants or delivering community health assessment outcomes. The purpose of Yob & Brewer (n.d) research is to explore practices of community involvement that can lead to positive social change. Community involvement can strengthen transparency and contribute to the overall […]
There are regulations and exceptions involved in HIPPA in the use of partial medical records in study research (Krishna, Kelleher & Stahlberg, 2007). For instance, in the U.S, present privacy provision on the use of protected health data for research purposes under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) split medical records in 3 […]
Health care involves a diverse set of public and private data collection systems, including health surveys, administrative enrollment and billing records, and medical records, used by various entities, including hospitals, CHCs, physicians, and health plans.
Bouwman, R., Bomhoff, M., Robben, P., & Friele, R. (2015). Patients’ perspectives on the role of their complaints in the regulatory process. Health Expectation This research article explore the impact of dissatisfaction or complaints facing the accountability of regulators in health care. It is important to review patient complaints in any stage of the episode of […]
