The Final version of the Integrated Investigation Project.
Kruti
updtaedMethodology-3.docx
TELEHEALTH 2
METHODOLOGY.
In this study, establishing whether telehealth is an effective health model than physical physician visits involved conducting a questionnaire survey on patients in a hospital that has implemented the telehealth model. The questionnaire was administered to 15 patients containing similar questions (e.g., was your medical issue addressed effectively?) that ranked the effectiveness of both models on a 10-point scale with 1 – not effective to 10 – extremely effective. The scores from each of the participants were averaged to generate a composite score for each patient. These composite scores generated variables under two categories: patients not enrolled in telehealth and patients enrolled in telehealth. The results were compiled in excel, and descriptive summary statistics, e.g., such as a measure of central tendency, were conducted. A t-test was also conducted to investigate whether there is a difference in the models' effectiveness and if telehealth is an effective health model compared to physical physician visits.
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You are suggesting what is called a metanalysis... those have a place in science, but that is not what I want you to be doing. I want you to be doing your own ORIGINAL research, not analyzing other people's stuff. If you were to do this, it will require WAY more work that I am asking you to do and you would have to modify this to include at least one TTest. That is even more work that you are already suggesting in this writing. I think that you could do something that still focuses on people's attitudes about in-person vs telehealth, but use a regular survey asking people to rank the two and asking a demographic question or two or three (age, gender, race/ethnicity, etc.). I do not want to discourage you from pursuing this avenue of research and investigation. Metanalyses play an important role in science, but they are just not the type of science I want you to be doing now. Please resubmit something more inline with my expectations (and talk to me if I can help) and I will regrade this. |
Timothy Schmalz, Mar 23 at 10:32am |
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Why are you limiting yourself to 15 people? I think the best course of action is just to make the questionnaire like you mention and just post it onto social media asking those people to share yours survey, too. I am not too sure if you've already made and distributed the survey, but based upon what I understand of your study, it would be way better if you have 100 respondents instead of 15. I am not sure I follow all of your methodology. What exactly are your averaging - their opinions of telehealth and their opinions of in-person care? I think if you just had all of your opinion data sorted by "those that have telehealth experience" and "those that do not have any telehealth experience" and used ttests to comprare them, this would be a very beneficial study. As you wrote this methodology, it sounds like you have added extra steps that do not necessarily improve the quality and clarity of your study's outcomes. Some of the best studies in the history of studies are the simplest. |
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