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How might a good research design be diagrammed? What kinds of threats to the validity of research designs can you identify? How can such threats be controlled or eliminated?

A research design can be understood as the planning of any scientific research from the first to the last step. In this sense it is a program to guide the researcher in collecting, analyzing, and interpreting facts (Bless and Higson-Smith, 1995:63).

Although the task force does effectively address the problem of substance abuse and addictive disorders, it does not effectively address co-occurring disorders. Early on in the text, a co-occurring disorder is defined as an individual who has a substance abuse disorder and a mental disorder at the same time. The task force mainly focuses on substance abuse. There are elements that are present in the treatment such as release prevention, engagement, and persuasion. The task force provides a number of interventions strategies address problems with substance use.

*Publication manual of the American psychological association (6th ed.) (2009). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. Please see note below regarding this edition of the APA manual.

3. Sample Population: Who exactly was used in the study? How many? (Be as specific as possible.)

What laws does the President’s Task Force seek to enforce and what are its likely litigation targets?

This article can be very difficult to understand if the reader is not part of the clinical psychology discourse community. In order to understand this article, one would need to know how to read Psychology journal articles. Psychology journal articles are made up of five different sections, that is; the abstract, introduction, method section, the results section, the discussion section, and the references section. In this article, the abstract and introduction summarized what Baker and Nash are looking for and how they got their answers. The method section and results section shows the way in which the research came about and what the procedures used and variables measured are and what were the results through the use of tables and figures to explain exactly what they mean. The discussion section is a summary of the entire article and what the tables and figures mean. Lastly, the references section shows all the cited articles and sources used in this article.

In population-based studies, instead of looking at a small group of individuals to make an assumption on the entire population, we are taking numbers that represent the population and determining

The information is presented in a direct manner, lacking unnecessary information, and written in a style which is easy for a range of readers to understand. They provide a thorough description of the development of the instrument, the norm population used, and an example of the survey, thus enabling the study to be replicated. A table of the frequencies and percentages of respondents’

I agree and support the intervention of the task force on the community preventive services through the entire communal campaigns .The campaigns would strategies on the effective measures to motivate and increase physical activity among the adults and children to enhance individual health within the society. The decision to involve the task force in the campaign of the physical activity is positive since regular physical activity is attributed to enhance human health and reduced risk of all-cause mortality. Regular physical activity improves aerobic capacity, muscular strength, body agility and coordination, lipid profiles, insulin level metabolic and immune function. Individuals who are physically fit have a reduced risk of developing cardiovascular

Task Force Cyclone was headquartered in Gulfport, Mississippi and commanded by Major General Gregory Vadnais this task force was compromised of nine task forces that covered the Mississippi area of responsibility (Wombwell, 2005). Task Force Quick covered Jackson County, Task Force Lee covered Hancock County, Task Force Aviation was responsible for air assets for the task force, Task Force Military Police, Task Force Wright covered Harrison County, Task Force Engineer was the engineer assets for the task force, and Task Force Keifer, which was broken down into sub task forces East and West. The support in Mississippi was primarily carried out by National Guard Soldiers, there was no support requested by the state for Title 10 support.

It is explained in a separate section because it includes the sample choice, through which methods the data will be collected and analysed (Partington, 2002). Firstly there are different types of research methods: in this design a descriptive design will be used and as a method interview will be applied to gather the data. Descriptive designs are for “observing, describing and measuring behaviour of a participant without actually affecting or influencing that behaviour”(Lewis & Zibarras, 2013, p. 64). The interviews as methods are connected to descriptive designs, because in interviews the participant is asked about their feelings, understanding or thinking on the research topic (Lewis & Zibarras,

As a graduate student choosing a research design on a research topic is very important to the completion of a doctoral program. Often times as research students they struggle with the research process in which they require additional help or assistance on a chosen topic. Many students depend upon their instructors and the additional assistance of the school library and the dissertation center. In choosing a subject to complete research one of the most important factors is the methodical approach in which will be sought in the research process. (Vankatesh, Brown, Bala, 2013).

A study design is the procedure that guides a researcher on how to collect, analyze and interpret observations. It is a logical model that guides the investigator while he navigates through the various stages of the research. Study types can be classified severally depending on the research strategy employed. A study type can be non-interventional that is ‘observational’ where a researcher just observes and analyses researchable objects or situations without intervening. Non-interventional study designs can be exploratory, descriptive or comparative. A study can also be

The main function of research design is to provide information for the collection of relevant evidence with minimal expenditure of effort and time. It depends mainly on the research objectives and questions set in chapter one.