WEEK 2 DQ 1 AND 2

Topic 2 DQ 1

Imagine you are serving on the board of a for-profit educational services company. Staff communicate to the board their concerns about the transition from foster care to independence for young adults who have reached the age of 18. These individuals are no longer eligible to be in the foster care system. Of particular concern is their self-esteem through this transition. There is extensive quantitative research in the scholarly literature regarding the function of self-esteem in such a transition, but a dearth of qualitative research on the topic. You want to assist staff in providing adequate support for this client population by commissioning an internal qualitative study to better understand the phenomenon and improve their transitions. Develop a problem statement for this query using a qualitative descriptive design. What would be the purpose of the study? What research questions would you ask? Justify each response in reference to the nature of qualitative descriptive design.

Topic 2 DQ 2

You have just been assigned as a project lead to a research team that is tasked with framing a potential qualitative descriptive study. Using your expert understanding of qualitative descriptive research, what would you suggest to the principal investigator (PI) regarding the use of a qualitative descriptive design? What are some of the considerations that would determine if a qualitative descriptive research design would be appropriate for a given study? What are strengths and limitations of this type of research design?