Issues and Controversies in Survey Research
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Discussion 1: Issues and Controversies in Survey Research
If whether to ask open-ended or closed-ended questions was the only decision you had to make,
developing a survey research study would be easy. Although this may have been a major debate at one
time, more complex controversies regarding survey research have developed. From properly phrasing
questions to adopting the demeanor of an interviewer, you must consider many variables that could
negatively affect your research results. Obstacles to accurately accepting or rejecting your
hypothesis lurk in the planning, development, and execution of your survey research process.
One way to ensure the precision of your survey is to test it with a sample from your target
demographic. You also may incorporate a peer review in order to accurately test both the perception
of the respondent and the perception of the researcher in your survey. It will help you determine
whether participants on both sides of the survey agree when interpreting the survey questions,
which can be a critical piece of the process. Traditionally, peer review involves two to three
peers and colleagues, but you may wish to include one reviewer who is not a research methodologist.
This person will read your work at face value and may catch issues that you overlooked.
Based on your Research Proposal experience, as well as on the larger context of the course material
related to a research proposal in general, review the issues and controversies in survey research
you explored in Week 1 (including all of the readings). Then consider any specific issues and
controversies that you encountered when developing your Survey Research Proposal for the Final
Project.
Post by Day 4 a description of specific issues and controversies in survey research that you
encountered when developing your Survey Research Proposal. Explain how you accounted for and
addressed these issues when designing your proposal.
MY Survey Research Proposal
Understanding the psychosocial role of social workers particularly in improving the quality of life
of chronic kidney disease patients is very important as it will reduce the risks and severity of
the disease. This study aims to determine the psychosocial role of social workers in improving the
quality of life of chronic kidney disease patients. The research location will be dialysis
facilities which has high numbers of kidney patients. The population comprised of inpatient,
outpatient and transplanted patients diagnosed with chronic kidney infection. Survey research
design will be applied in which stratified sampling will be used for identification of sample
(Cozby et al, 1989). All the required ethical procedures for seeking permission to conduct research
and for ensuring patients protection will be observed. The measurements for this research include;
socio-demographic and psychosocial factors, KDQOL-SF, biomedical factors and the patient health
questionnaire. All the data collected will be analyzed statistically and then the findings will be
disseminated to all relevant people and bodies.