Topic for this assignment:
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for anxiety disorders
Write a five- to seven-page paper in which you describe the methodology, design, and data management tools you plan to use in your research proposal. Define the process from the selection of participants (and stakeholders, as applicable) through data collection to data analysis, including any limitations and assumptions. Provide a detailed plan to collect and analyze data and disseminate findings. Include all ethical considerations. Your paper should give a complete description of the entire process used to conduct the study. If your proposal involves implementation of interventions, then include a program evaluation component that describes your research design.
In your submission, be sure to include the following critical elements:
- State the chosen research method or methods used.
- Are they qualitative, quantitative, or both?
- Provide support of method selection. Discuss why the chosen method or methods are best for the research topic or evaluation of the intervention.
- Justify your choice of method, design, sampling, data collection, analysis, and overall process with logic and evidence.
- Assess the strengths and weaknesses of the research design. Explain why it is the best design for the proposed study or evaluation. Support your explanation with logic and specific evidence.
- Select valid and reliable data-collection tools for the research questions (and research design). If you develop data-collection tools, explain how validity and reliability will be determined.
- Support the selection of the population and sampling procedures.
- Describe data collection. Describe the process used to collect data from recruitment to consent to data collection. Include ethical considerations and mitigation. Include how you will handle the following:
- Recruiting and managing study participants
- Eliminating or mitigating any chance of harm to participants
- Data handling, storage, and access
- Handling consent, management of data, and requests to withdraw
- Protecting confidentiality for the entire life of the data
- Explain the proposed data-analysis process, including the following:
- Any transcription and transformation of data for analysis
- Use of tools, including software, for analysis
- Select and provide justification for use of statistical analysis and/or processes for qualitative analysis.
- Discuss methods for ensuring reliability of qualitative analysis if applicable.
- Explain the limitations and assumptions connected to the research.
- Identify potential limitations and delimiters to be used.
- Describe proposed dissemination of findings. Propose how findings will be disseminated to relevant stakeholders, users, and interested parties.
- Include any plans for presentation and publication of material.
- Fully explain the ethical considerations that apply to the proposal or intervention.
- Identify the ethical considerations associated with the individuals, communities, and organizations most likely to be affected by the identified gap or problem.
- Articulation of Response: Ensure the submission has no major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, or syntax.
