MEDICAL AND HEALTHCARE
Medical and Healthcare: Comparison of Trends in Smoking Cessation
Research Proposal: Methodology
Sample/ Setting
A sample of adult smokers within my neighborhood would be selected, specifically those who have not quit smoking within six months. The sample size would be ten since the best sample size is considered when it is 10% of the entire target population (Tools 4 Dev, n.a.). There are approximately 101 adult smokers in my vicinity who have not quit smoking within the last six months.
The sample would be extracted from my neighborhood since I know many people who are smokers in my area. I am not acquainted with all of the 101 participants of the said area; I know only 14 of them. I selected 10 out of 101 smokers because I contacted the 14 known ones, described my purpose of research, and asked them if they have any other friends or neighbors in the area who are adult smokers. Therefore, the total number of adult smokers in the whole neighborhood was calculated to be 101, out of which ten were selected after calculating the best sample size. Moreover, a sample of 10 people could also have been selected from the 14 adult smokers that I already knew. Still, since I wanted to be sure that I was...
It aims to establish credible quasi-experimental research where statistically modeled results would be obtained so that variation in the control group and the group receiving
treatment could be accurately investigated (Reeves, Wells & Waddington, 2017). It would be done so that allocation to either control or normal group would not be known to the participants so that better natural outcomes are obtained. Although,
compliance to the
research ethics would still be considered as human participants would be informed about the entire research purpose, and their consent would be taken before the…
