Action Research Paper (For Pro. Dan)
Research Design Challenges
Mental Illness in Adolescence: Bullying & Suicide
Context
Research in this context is a logical method to enhance or develop new strategies for medical services. Studies are intended to answer particular inquiries on the most proficient method to anticipate, analyze, or treat illnesses and abnormalities. Numerous sorts of research exist. For instance, clinical trials test new pharmaceuticals or gadgets. Different investigations utilize interviews or studies to comprehend wellbeing or conduct. Research is vital in light of the fact that they add to information and advance the development of treatments for different ailments and disorders. Research is the speediest and most secure approach to discover medicines that work. However research is not without challenges that limit the reliability or execution different research studies.
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Possible research design challenges
Defining controls for other well established suicide risk factors. (Gould MS, Greenberg T, Velting DM & Shaffer D, 2003 )
The interpretation of findings is complicated by the shared method variance caused by the use of the same informants to identify both bullying status and suicidal behaviors/ideations. (Crick NR & Bigbee MA, 1998)
Most reference studies are cross-sectional, making it impossible to make causal inferences or conclusions that experiencing bullying increases suicide risks.
Tackling possible research design challenges
To define appropriate and broadly inclusive set of controls, the subject of suicide will have to be observed wholesomely from the victims’ perspective to develop a blanket collection of broad spectrum reasons for the choice to commit suicide. This will largely entail exploring various studies in and conducting sub –experiments to empirically validate the nature of a factor as causative agent of suicide. After successfully compiling a list of these alternate scenarios it may ten be rightly argued a that a sufficiently curated and accommodating array of controls has been developed against which bullying and harassment can be compared as a control for the subject matter in question.
In instances where self-reports of bullying are based on the individuals own perception of the social circumstances, a situation in which it is possible that the psychopathological characteristics of the reporter can lead to the misinterpretation of otherwise normal social events. This can result in a confounded relation between suicide and bullying.
Tackling possible research design challenges (cont.)
In these situation, it would be most suitable to conduct analyses of such reports in the presence of specialists or better still by the specialists themselves to distinguish between the genuine expressions of the relation between bullying, suicide and mental wellness and situations where the misunderstanding of normal social situations is present to avoid corruption of data and ratify the nature of the studies in question.
To tackle the issue of cross-sectional nature of the studies it is essential to conduct studies while sufficiently exploring pre-published resources and relying significantly on the collection and curation of a significant number of controls for the experiments that constitute the study in question.
Conclusion
Realizing that there are challenges in research design is a major positive development in evading research issues. The difficulties in this presentation are just a couple of the issues that specialists may confront. Picking the correct subject to investigate is a decent method to maintain a strategic distance from challenges with respect to developing and implementing research design.
References
Grunbaum, J. A., Kann, L., Kinchen, S., Ross, J., Hawkins, J., & Lowry, R. (2003). Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance--United States, 2003. PsycEXTRA Dataset.
Hawker DS, Boulton MJ. Twenty years' research on peer victimization and psychosocial maladjustment: a meta-analytic review of cross-sectional studies. J Child Psychol Psychiatry 2000;41(4):441-55.
Crick NR, Bigbee MA. Relational and overt forms of peer victimization: a multiinformant approach. J Consult Clin Psychol 1998;66(2):337-47
Gould MS, Greenberg T, Velting DM, Shaffer D. Youth suicide risk and preventive interventions: a review of the past 10 years. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 2003;42(4):386- 405