Research Methodology

Sample Setting

The study will consider two groups of participants. The first group is healthcare professionals from the community health facilities, the private clinics, and the public hospitals. The study targets at least 100 health professionals who will be approached using a questionnaire, to establish whether patients who attended the facility underwent a comprehensive series of evaluation before beginning treatment. The care providers will also be expected to indicate whether during their patient medical assessment test they came across military veterans and whether they screened them for PTSD. The other target group will be war veterans who will be selected from the Veterans Hospital with the recommendation of the person-in-charge. The study will focus on knowing if the individuals attended other health facilities and the level of care they received concerning their PTSD. The sampling frame will run for three months.

Sampling Strategy

The research will draw on a quantitative study design and consider the use of a probability sampling technique because it allows for statistical inference from the population selected. Ideally, this sampling method is preferred because it provides external validity of the research findings (Gravetter & Forzano, 2016). Essentially, it is necessary to compare the number of veterans who received treatment from other health facilities apart from the Veterans Hospitals and the number of care providers who were able to provide care to veterans with PTSD. Similarly, since we will use data from a large population, the study will use simple random sampling strategy, where a random selection of care providers will represent the entire population.

Research Design

The study will use correlation research, which attempts to explain the relationship between two or more variables through statistical data (Gravetter & Forzano, 2016). With this design, facts about the inadequacy of healthcare providers to take care of veterans with PTSD will be interpreted using the trends and patterns in the data collected.

References

Gravetter, F. J., & Forzano, L.-A. B. (2016). Research Methods for the Behavioral Sciences. Delmar Cengage Learning.