Hello
I have a research aim, which is to study depression prevalence among specific disease patients and to compare both genders.
And I am confused with my methodology, so I have many questions.
Note: I am addressing those patients from a hospital database
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is it important to mention how these patients are diagnosed with this specific disease?
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for such a scenario, which depression scale is the best?
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is it okay to do stratified sampling for my study rather than convenient sampling? and how can I do it with its calculation? and is it making my study better "stronger"?
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since i am studying patients, is it okay to include depression predictors (income, education level, etc) and outcomes in the data collection tool? or the disease itself summarizes the whole predictors story?
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with these in my data collection tool
a- participants demographic data
b- depression scale
c- depression outcomes
what else should I include?
and in section C, is it okay to ask about something like suicide ideation?
thank you
Mixed methods would make this a more informing project than either quantitative or qualitative alone; data collected by qualitative method will expand on that collected quantitatively.
Hi Hammad,
1: It's crucial to implement informations about how patients were diagnosed (according to which classyfications and codes)
2: It depends on what you are looking for. Propably, most famous are BDI-II, CES-D, and HRSD
3: If you want to do stratified sampling you should collect as many additional information as you can, including demographics, course of illness etc.
4: Definitely try to look for the specific tools designed to assess such an additional info. (WHO-QOL...)
5: Generally/ it is considered as a good practice to collect information about suicidality (especially in affective disorders) - I encourage you to use CSSR-S or SBQ-R for a such aim.
Best regards
Thank you Dr. Philip and Dr. Bartosz for your response, highly appreciated.
I don't know if further discussions are okay, anyhow Dr. Bartosz
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I hope to find such information in the hospital database, unfortunately further complications in this issue will restrict my study heavily.
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I think beck's scale is the most appropriate, can I find it in different languages? For example an arabic reliable and valid version.
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My plan for the stratified sampling is to access the database, count male patients, and form a sample from them. And the same for females.
Is this methodology acceptable?
Are there any further steps that I can add?
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Ok
This comment helped me a lot, I am grateful.
So, an 26-item questionnaire of WHOQOL will be included. Same issues for point 3, is there any valid reliable arabic version?
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Same issue in point 3 and 4.
Can I find these scales in the required language?
And additionally, as an experts, the questionnaire will have several scales to answer.
Will this limit the number of response needed? I mean will the patients eventually will ignore or refuse to participate as it filled with many scales.
Thank you
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