Name: Angelica Franscine P.

Gomez
Section: ABM 12Y-1

1. What distinguishes a qualitative approach from a quantitative approach? Mention five

characteristics.
- What distinguishes from the two approach is that qualitative refers to the act of
understanding and observing a human or social problem by conducting research.
While quantitative approach refers to a process where it is done by using
sampling methods such as online surveys, polls, and questionnaires from
participants to gather quantifiable data and gain numerical results to measure a
possible answer to the problem of the research.
Qualitative Research
 Focuses on the “Why” rather than the “What”
 Understands Concepts, Opinions and Experiences
 Collects and analyzes non-numerical data
 Meaningful insights
 Main source of data is the experiences of the people
Quantitative Research
 Investigative approach
 Statistical, Mathematical and computational
 Is data-oriented
 Contents are logical and unbiased
 Done by the use of sampling techniques

2. Write down the research process and please identify what part is the most valuable?

- The research process consists of five parts, the Conceptualization phase, Design
phase, Empirical phase, Analytical phase and Dissemination phase. The most
valuable part of the research process is the Dissemination phase, but also often
ignored by most researchers. This the process where the results of a well written
research get published or presented in public to a group of people or population
that may gain benefit from it.

3. Read on a journal article that used quantitative method as a research approach,

identify the research question and explain why the research approach was used.
- A systematic literature search is conducted to identify the qualitative and
quantitative studies published in the UK since 2000 of GPs' and practice nurses'
attitudes to the management of depression. The research title for the problem was
about “Managing depression in primary care: A meta-synthesis of qualitative and
quantitative research from the UK to identify barriers and facilitators”. The
research process was provided in order to gain the results of 7 qualitative and 10
quantitative studies: none concerned depression and co-morbid physical illness of
any kind. The studies of managing patients with a primary diagnosis of depression
indicated that GPs and PNs are unsure of the exact nature of the relationship
between mood and social problems and of their role in managing it. Among some
clinicians, ambivalent attitudes to working with depressed people, a lack of
confidence, the use of a limited number of management options and a belief that a
diagnosis of depression is stigmatizing complicate the management of depression.
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