Grant Proposal

Running Head: PROPOSED STUDY AND BUDGET JUSTIFICATION 1

Proposed Study and Budget Justification

Janine Vereen

Ashford University

Professor Irene Nielsen

May 22, 2018

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Proposed Study

Participants

The proposed study to establish the cause of the misperception and misrepresentation of

people with Alzheimer Disease (AD) in the society will target population of AD patients in

mental health hospitals, mental health research centers, mental clinics and community groups

that deal with Alzheimer’s disease patients (Lehmann & Barilan, 2015). The respondents will be

tested for mental health soundness, so that other mental health factors do not influence the

findings thus affecting its validity and reliability. The study will focus on three continents that

are Africa, North America and Asia. This patients will be categorized depending on the medical

therapy they are undergoing, in order to eliminate biasness of experimental error. Three countries

will be selected randomly from each continent and three mental health hospitals, mental health

research centers, mental clinics and community groups chosen from each country. The

participants of age within 18 to 50 years will stratified in two groups’ consisting of male and

female in the 50:50 ratio, and further stratification of the groups into eight groups of age interval

of four. The study will aim at 15 participants in each age group for every mental health hospitals,

mental health research centers, mental clinics and community groups chosen. Among the 15

participants, the three economic classes of low, middle and high social classes will be considered

in order to capture wide range sources of information. In each class, one, patient, one family

member and one medical practitioner will be interviewed. This will form a total of 1620

participants in the whole study. This will be adequate for elimination of sample size precision

biasness. Larger sample sizes are essential for increasing degree of freedom and thus high

precision. It will reduce the errors due to sampling and experiment.

Procedures

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1. society

Run-on sentence. Clarify.

[Irene Nielsen]

2. validity and reliability.

of what? [Irene Nielsen]

3. Africa, North America

and Asia.

why three continents? Prune

your study to a single, doable

population. [Irene Nielsen]

4. therapy

What is the condition and

what is the therapy? [Irene

Nielsen]

5. middle

You must use paragraphs to

develop your scholarly

argument. [Irene Nielsen]

6. total

this is totally undoable.

[Irene Nielsen]

7. Larger sample sizes

Not necessarily true.

Statistical power can be found

in small samples. [Irene

Nielsen]

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The study will utilize open-ended structured questionnaires that will be administered

through face-to-face interviews and focus groups to collect primary data. The questionnaires will

be pretested in the three continents to identify areas that need adjustments to maximize on data

collection. The participants will include AD patients, family members, and healthcare

practitioners. The interview is designed to take approximately 30 to 40 minutes on every

respondent. The focus discussion will identify four groups only. The first group will be the

victims of an AD. The second will be family members of AD patients, third, the community

members who are not members of a family with AD victims and are aware of AD and the fourth

will be the medical practitioners. The questionnaires will be filled well and taken back for

analysis. Reports from focus groups shall be used to confirm the questionnaires and infer more

concerning the subject.

Hypothesis and Analysis

The hypothesis of the study states that there are no misinterpretations and

misrepresentations of people living with Alzheimer Disease (AD). The second null hypothesis

states that people with Alzheimer Disease do not suffer from any physical, social or

psychological impacts because they are not misrepresented or misinterpreted. This implies that

the study will focus on the various misinterpretations and misrepresentation experienced among

the people suffering from AD and will dig deep into the impacts these actions causes them. This

will be done in a way that both general conclusions and specific conclusion shall be made

considering continental diversity, age and social classes. The hypothesis will be tested on the

level of confident of 0.5%. This will mean that the p value of the Anova that will be lower than

the set value will indicate that the null hypothesis is not in conformity with the reality on the

field and so will be rejected. This will indicate that AD patients face misinterpretation and

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1. utilize

What is your research

question? [Irene Nielsen]

2. victims of an AD.

What do you want to learn

from persons with AD?

[Irene Nielsen]

3. second

These groups complicate and

extend the study into

undoable proportion on three

continents. If you prune your

proposal to one area and

have questions for AD

patients, and Questions for

family members, you may

have the makings of a

qualitative study of merit.

[Irene Nielsen]

4. hypothesis

Mark a big red X over all this.

Re-write using the required

template I gave in in the early

announcements. What is your

research question? What is

your hypothesis? What are

the variables? [Irene

Nielsen]

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misrepresentation which is also detrimental to them psychologically, socially, health and

economically. This will be in agreement with that suggests that all kinds of discriminations are

detrimental on the mentally disordered persona (Casado et al., 2017). The model for fighting this

stigma will therefore be inevitable to be made in order to reduce the impact. If the reverse is

found to be true. Research will have to shift its objectives or find out why the results appear so.

Data collected will be sorted accordingly to represent the various groups identified during

data collection that is, gender, and victims of AD, family members, Health care professional,

social classes and age groups. The questionnaires will be coded in order to identify important

results that can be analyzed for comparison purposes. The structured codes will be fed in the

analysis tool (SPSSsoftware) score sheet and analyzed qualitatively, according to Abojabel &

Werner (2016). During analysis, data coding helps in separating the most important interview

information compared to the other findings for the sake of achieving the specific objectives of

the study and in testing the hypothesis. The number of participants that actually respond to the

questionnaires (Stuckey, 2015) will guide coding. It will also help identify common items in the

questionnaires form those that are rarely mentioned in the questionnaires by the respondents.

Budget Justification

In order to fully accomplish the specific objectives of the study and adequately test the

hypothesis, the study will require a budget of USD $60,000. The funding will be used in

designing the research, recruitment of research assistants and training them, acquisition of data

collection tools, traveling, data collection processes, and data analysis. More money will be spent

on respondent appreciation, scheduling focus groups and personal effects of the principle

investigate overseeing the research. Budget justification shows the detailed expenditure of

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money in research and help in the success of the study (Anthopoulos et al., 2016). The

expenditure will be channeled as follows:

Direct Costs

Personnel

The study will hire research assistants in the different continents and train them on the

research data collection, recording, coding and analysis. This will ensure high quality and

professionalism in conducting the research in which case its reliability and precision will be

assured. A total of nine personnel will be hired in every continent to carry out data collection on

the rate of USD $30 per day for ten days, with one supervisor for a number of ten days at USD

$180 per day. The principle investigate will visit once and train them. The PI per Diem will be

USD $2150 per day for twelve days. A data specialist will be hired for data coding at USD

$1126. This will be replicated in all the three continents. The total cost on personnel will

therefore be USD $31,606.

Equipment

The study will need three Apple computer Laptop of specification 15”, 4 GHz processor,

and 1 TB hard drive, one in each continent with a specialized data professional supervisor to

ensure real-time data sharing from the field. Three Smartphone with 84 mega pixel, retina screen

display and 64 GB internal memory, three HD video camera, one pieces of an online video

editing software and writing stationary. The 3 laptops will cost each $1800, 3 Smartphone at $70

adding to $210, 3 Video camera costing $1000 each, a video editing software at $300 and a

packet of pens costing $30, a dozen spring files, at $20. The total budget for the equipment will

be USD $8960.

Travel Expenses

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1. day

Even if you could do the study

on three continents what

would it contribute to

science? [Irene Nielsen]

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Accessibility of the population during data collection shall be considered. The local

traveling in each continent is estimated at $550. The PI traveling to the three continents is $4000.

This will include the air tickets and the total costs on the local travel to the research station.

Traveling expenses will be $4550.

Participant Support and Appreciation

Every participants will be given USD $10 in appreciation for participation. This will total

to USD $16200.

Data analysis

Data analysis will need a new qualitative data analysis tool. The up to date version of

SPSS will be bought at $10. During analysis, the PI will spent three days running data and

collecting and arranging results in folders.

Indirect Costs

Miscellaneous Expenses

During data collection, there shall be emailing communication, Skype and telephone

calling. After data analysis, the results will be printed. An estimated USD $1500 will therefore

be allocated for phone call bills, online communication, photocopying and postage. Other

indirect cost will include internal or local communication among the local research assistants that

are hired for the data collection and dissemination of the questionnaires.

The study will also be allocated 10 percent indirect expenses calculated for the direct

expenses. This there reflects that USD $48040 × 0.10 = USD $4804. This will take care of any

regional variations in the market values of the projected costs in traveling and other overheads.

Charging of the video camera batteries and laptops shall constitute the indirect costs. Usually,

some hospitals may want a formal ethics formal or legal letter for research, which will demand

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typing and printing the letters. Although the researchers will be given special budges for

identification.

Appendix A: Budget

Principal Investigator: Grant Title: Cause of the misperception and misrepresentation of people with

Alzheimer Disease (AD) in the society Period of Performance:

Principle Investigator(PI) Full Time Faculty Annual Salary $90000 Percentage of effort 30% $27000 Number of months 1.5 Full Time A/P (10% time 1.5 Months) $25800 Graduate Assistant researcher

(GSR)

3

Full Time Graduate Assistant

Annual

$50000

Percentage of effort 50% 25000 Number of months 1.5 Graduate Assistant (50% time, 1.5 months) $1800 Data clerks 27 $300 $8100 Data specialist 1 $1126 $1126 Total salaries $31,606. Direct cost Equipment laptop 3 $1800 $5400 Smartphone 3 $70 $210 Video camera 3 $1000 $3000 online editing software 1 $300 $300 Pen packet $30 $30 Dozen files $20 $20 Total Equipment expenses $8960 Travel Expenses PI $4000 GAR $550 Total Traveling Expenses $4550 Participant Appreciation 1620 $10 $16200

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Data analysis $10 Total direct cost $53696

10% Indirect Costs $4804 Miscellaneous Expenses $1500 Total funds requested $60000

Reference

Abojabel, H., & Werner, P. (2016). Exploring family stigma among caregivers of persons with

Alzheimer's disease: The experiences of Israeli-Arab caregivers. Dementia,

1471301216673920.

Anthopoulos, L., Reddick, C. G., Giannakidou, I., & Mavridis, N. (2016). Electronic government

or e-government project failure has been widely discussed in the literature. Some of the

common reasons cited for project failure are design-reality gaps, ineffective project

management and unrealistic planning. Research shows that more than half of e-

government projects result in total or partial failures with regard to the initially

grounded standards, scheduling or budgeting... Government Information

Quarterly, 33(1), 161-173.

Casado, B. L., Hong, M., & Lee, S. E. (2017). Attitudes Toward Alzheimer’s Care-Seeking

Among Korean Americans: Effects of Knowledge, Stigma, and Subjective Norm. The

Gerontologist, gnw253.

Lehmann, J., & Barilan, Y. M. (2015). De-constructing de-mentia: a personal and person

oriented perspective of de-personalization and moral status. Medicine, Health Care and

Philosophy, 18(1), 153-158.

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1. Data

This is totally unreasonable if

you were to conduct the study

on three continents. [Irene

Nielsen]

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Stuckey, H. L. (2015). The second step in data analysis: Coding qualitative research

data. Journal of Social Health and Diabetes, 3(1), 7.

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