Qualitative Research Question: How are medical practices and procedures suited to controlling problems of self-poisoning, self-inflicted cuts, and hitting body parts by the mentally ill in the United States today? Aims and Objectives: The overall objective that the researcher wants to achieve through the analysis of the current study is marked as the research aim, while the related tasks that need to be performed to achieve the aim are referred to as the study objectives. Purpose: The researcher aims to qualitatively study the extent to which medical practices in application in the United States are customized to address self-harm problems in mentally ill patients and how the applied tools promote or facilitate effective care delivery healthcare to patients. Objectives: To evaluate physicians' previous satisfaction with the tools adopted to address self-harm by mentally ill patients and their effectiveness. Identify the various tools and approaches currently applied to address self-harm by mentally ill patients in the United States. Epistemology This research study adopts an “interpretivist” epistemology because the qualitative approach is more investigative (Goldkuhl, 2012, p. 138-140). This is because understanding the suitability of medical practices and tools qualitatively requires the use of distinct opinions and thoughts compared to using quantitative methodology. Furthermore, the study focuses on answering epistemic questions, primarily addressing practice as knowledge, as well as understanding the nature and validity of knowledge generated through practice as it is to be obtained by practitioners. Qualitative literature will also be very useful in this epistemological approach to study the… half of the article… the method adopted for this study has the main advantage of spending little time while collecting the data as factual empirical data. the figures must be collected. Furthermore, comparison and interpretation of results are easy compared to other methods such as qualitative methods (Weber, 2004, p. 10-11). Furthermore, in quantitative study, an individual is able to maintain control over the study compared to qualitative study (Kim, 2003, p. 10). However, the quantitative study process is less flexible, poor in interpreting social issues as well as the inability to associate the value that people associate with social phenomena. Once the data collection process begins, it becomes difficult to change and this demonstrates inflexibility. This could only be overcome by designing multidimensional questionnaires for data collection where the possibility of change is designed.
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