Hi all,
I am in the process of thinking about the research design of my masters' dissertation and my topic is the emotional trauma of primary school children and the effects on their learning. The problem with the current topic is that the majority of the existing studies have done a secondary analysis mostly from data of cohort studies. So using secondary data is a feasible solution.
Finding primary data is quite difficult, I believe, given that the current topic is ethically sensitive and it is not possible for example to hand out questionnaires in traumatized children. Any other ideas on the current research design are more than welcome.
Thank you!
Primary data is not only ethically difficult, but also not possible in Master work because you will need to have a prospective study design then. If you go with secondary data, that is also be difficult because you have to find the traumatized records, in that case you will need to apply retrospective study design, but that too will have it limitations, like some will have 1 year history and some will have 10 years history, you can not justify to assess both same tool. So I think the way is to have cross-sectional study design and find an appropriate tool to administer.
a cross sectional study would be appropriate or a case study. difficult to do a longitudinal study
Thank you for your answers Junaid Ahmad and Brian Chiluba. Do you believe that there is any other way of measuring the above constructs quantitatively?
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