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Medical Research and Qualitative Analysis

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addition to the ones the instructor identified in the lecture? The lecture identifies bias on the part of an interviewer, and it discusses  bias in the design, in that it focused almost exclusively on women in the same age group as the researcher rather than the interviewer more interested in the perspective from  menopause. There is a wealth of openings for bias in any research, and particularly into qualitative research. If the data collected were in the form of cold, hard  facts, then the method used would be quantitative. The research discussed here not only is qualitative, but phenomenological qualitative research. Questions leading  to discovery of lived experience must be designed in such a way that the answers given actually yield the information being sought. The lecture speaks of an interviewer who  shut down at critical points during her interviews, effectively skewing the information gained. Questions themselves can do the same, either through their wording  or by leading respondents to give answers they believe the researcher is seeking. Even the arrangement and order of survey questions can influence survey respondents perceptions of the questions  and what they are asking or what the participant perceives that they are asking. 2. Identify a clinically-based research topic and qualitative approach to data collection that would be  of interest to you. Explain why you have chosen them. A lingering question that may be emerging as a possible research question  focuses on a possible cure for cancer. I would like to investigate the influence of the combination of oxygen and nutrient therapy on curing cancer. Oxygen therapy is