Residency Final Research Plan
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| Residency Final Research Plan | |||
| Required Component and Description | Student Response | Additional notes, questions and/or next steps | |
| A. | Research Question | Which social determinants of health will the Hispanic community volunteers identify in their community leading to overweight and eventually obesity? Will photo-voice data analysis help to elucidate ways to motivate the community to healthy collective action and social change to modify behavior and reduce health risks, therefore reducing health disparities in Hispanic communities? |
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| Following Seminar 1 write your current research question. | |||
| B. | Research Methodology | The research will employ both qualitative and quantitative methodologies. This choice of methodology is based on the desire to gain trend insights and the human touch. In the findings the qualitative data will assist in understanding the patterns of quantitative analysis | |
| What methodology would you propose to test your research question and why this is the best one? | |||
| C. | Theoretical Foundation and/or Conceptual Framework | The study will be guided by conceptual theories that will make it easier to understand, dynamics, interpret and forecast development and outcomes within the Hispanic community. To best address the questions, the study will use both the Social Learning Theory (SLT) and the Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR). The SLT will allow for focus on the following learning and modeling behavior – Reproduction, Attention, Motivation and Reproduction. On its part, the CBPR will allow the study to be sensitive and to connect attitudes and behavior. The behavior will be based on and guided by behavioral, normative and control beliefs. | |
| D. | Gaps | The study will seek to offer communities an opportunity to record and reflect of their concerns. This should empower them in addition to offering better research data. | |
| Identify at least 1 potential gap | |||
| E. | Assumptions, Limitations, and Delimitations | The study assumes that the Hispanic community has a problem with weight and obesity. The study will be limited to the Hispanic community only and delimited by taking into account the outside factors that affect the target population. | |
| Identify at least 1 assumption, limitation, and delimitation. | |||
| F. | Controlling and Managing Bias | To control and manage bias, the research will employ a strategy that minimizes or eliminates the external influences on the subjects, researchers and methodologies. | |
| Identify one strategy for controlling and managing bias in your research. | |||
| G. | Summary of the Literature/Logical Fallacies | The study will seek to understand the individual and by extension community motivators in seeking out healthy collective action and social change. It will additionally seek literature that explains the motivators that reduce health risks and by extension health disparities in the Hispanic communities.
The one logical fallacy that this study will work steadfastly to avoid is that of hasty generalizations. This entails making assumptions about a whole group based on sample that is inadequate. This is especially alive in this study that seeks the social determinants of health leading to overweight and eventually obesity. |
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| Attach a brief outline that describes the flow of your intended literature review. Describe one logical fallacy and how you will guard against this in your own writing. | |||
| H. | Synthesis of the Literature | The centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) points out that of the people who identify themselves as Hispanics, a significant majority were overweight and on their way to obesity. The Whatcom county Community health Assessment report does state that efforts to improve the social determinants of health have potential to positively impact many health outcomes for individual and families. | |
| Write 1 paragraph that provides a synthesis of at least 3 articles that approach your topic from different perspectives. | |||
| I. | Implications for Future Research | This study seeks to offer a window in to the Hispanic community and their motivation in keeping a healthy societal outlook. In the future, the study should make it possible to better understand the individual factors and who they individually and collectively affect the health of Hispanics and by extension the world. | |
| What implications will your study have on future research? | |||
| J. | Contributions to Discipline and to Social Change | The study will contribute to societal change by highlighting the factors that are social in affecting the health of a community. It is expected that the study will contribute to social change by motivating individuals and by extension the society to work their weight issues. When this is achieved, the society will have overcome the challenge of obesity within it. Finally, the study will offer insights into the Hispanic culture that must adjust to allow for the attainment of the desired health results leading to reductions and eventual elimination of obesity. | |
| What contributions will your research make to the discipline and society?
Note: Social change implications are expressed in terms of tangible improvements to individuals, communities, organizations, institutions, cultures, or societies. |
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Reference:
Kumanyika, S & Brownson, R. C (2007) Handbook of Obesity Prevention: A Resource for Health Professionals, Springer Science + Business Media, LLC, Spring Street, New York, NY.
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