Assignment: Chronic Condition

Assignment: Chronic Condition
Assignment: Chronic Condition
Choose a topic for your research paper in terms of health-related state or event (e.g.disease, disability,chronic condition).
Remember to describe your chosen population in terms of descriptive epidemiology (people, place and time).
Research the South University Online Library and the Internet to read about your chosen topic.
In a Microsoft Word document, devlop a 3 to 5 page paper about your chosen topic; including the title and background. In addition, provide a rationale for your topic choice and include a list of at least five proposed references.
Using a framework Some research approaches appear not to use a conceptual or theoretical framework in their design. ‘Grounded theory’, for example, is an inductive method in which theory generation comes from the data. It was an approach that went against the accepted wisdom of the 1960s that a study should have a definite theory before it begins (Robson 2002). It is an example of a methodological approach that is based on a specific epistemology or philosophy of knowledge (Avis 2003). Corbin and Strauss (2008) discussed the epistemology of grounded theory in some detail. However, as this methodology has developed, the epistemology has also developed (Hall et al 2013).
The development of theoretical or conceptual frameworks can be undertaken as an outcome of the research but it is unlikely that one will be stated as part of the design. However, projects using these methods do have a theoretical framework: that of the philosophy or epistemology on which the research approach is based. For example, Curtis et al (2012) discussed how grounded theory methodology is based on the epistemology of symbolic interactionism and so they did not identify a theoretical or conceptual model in the design of their research. In their findings, they discussed the concept that emerged from their research of the dissonance for students of professional ideals and the reality of practice. They then showed this diagrammatically in a conceptual model.