Question

The case study is used in qualitative research because it

a. Facilitates the coding of data

b. Provides a comprehensive description

c. Enables generalization of the research results

d. Entails once off data collection

Answer 1

CASE STUDY- It is research method used to investigate or deep study of person, group, event to identify cause of related principle. It is commonly used in medical, psychological and nursing field and also help in assessing public health function. And very effective tool in nursing to assess patient diagnosis, treatment, etiological factor etc.

Qualitative research – it is method in which identify the meaning of any event or phenomena in terms its description, it more over based on action and observation. In nursing it helps to identify when, how, the phenomena occur. It is definitive in nature and use validity.

QUALITATIVE CASE STUDY- descriptive case study of particular complex event and within it real life context. It helps in exploring multiple factors interacting with each other and their relationship.

Ans B- comprehensive description

FOR any multiple-choice question always use a method of elimination, and what will be the possible answer of the question according to its definition, factors use etc.

Answer B is possible because case study in qualitative research help in facilitation of in-depth comprehensive description of event, its related factor and how they are linked to each other

For example, A COPD patient qualitative case study, tell how family history, preexisting lungs disease, smoking, occupation etc. are related to each other with valuative and inductive way.

option A is not possible (facilitation of data coding) because as qualitative case study based on real life situation so the data analysis is limited to number of events or condition and its relationship.

Other option C is not possible because qualitative case study doesn’t support generalization of result for example a group of COPD patient their etiological factors or cause of disease may be different or may be same. we cannot predict the result of this.

Other option D is not possible because. Case study in qualitative research focus on depth knowledge of particular event or condition according to present environment. If environment changes or modifies and the causative factor also alter. So, the previous data collection doesn’t support present data collection, it just only used for comparison purpose only. So, it doesn’t support entailment off data collection. data is difficult to replicate