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The hypothesis to be tested is that students who receive intervention messages illustrating the negative consequences of alcohol in smartphones will less likely intend to engage in consumption. What problem does this intervention address? No problem was identified and supported with evidence. How do you know that lack of knowledge is the problem?
Seeking to investigate an illegal activity on school grounds in a vulnerable population would not be ethically acceptable.
Conducting this proposal on school grounds would not be appropriate. It is unclear why a stratified sample is needed. Subgroups were not identified. It is unclear how the design aligns with a quasi-experimental design as there is a treatment and control group.
A Quantitative Research ? Study to Decrease Prevalence of Alcohol Use in Adolescents
Michelle J Grant
South University
NSG6101Nursing Research Methods
Dr. Patricia Jenkins
July 16, 2021
A Quantitative Research on Prevalence of Alcohol Use in Adolescents
It is unclear what problem is being addressed with the smartphone. No evidence was provided to support the problem being addressed. There is no indication that this is a knowledge issue.
The prevalence of alcohol consumption among adolescents has become a major issue of concern (Breuninger et al., 2020). Most adolescents reportedly indulge in alcohol as a form of escape from their problems leading to countless and difficult consequences (Breuninger et al., 2020). This necessitates vital interventions in reducing the prevalence of alcohol consumption using smartphone-based technology to illustrate the negative consequences of alcohol in smartphones and be less likely to engage in consumption (Bae et al., 2017). Bae’s sample was 21-28 years. Therefore, the problem addressed by the study is the prevalence of alcohol use among adolescents despite the smart-phone message intervention initiatives to prevent the issue (Bae et al., 2017). This is unclear. It is unclear what new intervention you seek to examine. This is a vulnerable population, and you are seeking to investigate an illegal activity on school grounds. This study would not be approved.
Research Question
Can change perception? with smartphone intervention initiatives be effective at reducing the prevalence of alcohol consumption among adolescents? It is unclear how perception with initiatives reduces alcohol intake. This is not the research question that aligns with the last paragraph.
Sampling
A stratified sampling technique will be utilized in this study to select the sample group from high schools in their early adolescents. This sampling technique is suitable as the number of alcohol drinking adolescents make up a small percentage of the high school students; the sample of high school students will be collected from their high schools to achieve a total number of 500 participants. On what basis is the sample stratified? What subgroups are formed? What is the inclusion criteria? Excluson criteria?
The high schools will be selected according to the location and the socio-economic backgrounds of the students. It is unclear what contibution location and socio-economic backgroups have. The high schools will range from high schools catering to students from high-income families to low-income families. What is the basis for this? The sample will comprise students from different races and cultural backgrounds, African American, Hispanics, and White students, to account for the differences in norms and perceptions. The survey methodology will collect the information from a sample of students in high school-aged between.?? The location of the study is a populated urban centre as it is suitable for the diverse demographics.
The sample students will answer close-ended questionnaires to identify the group who have consumed alcohol. To find out the participants’ demographics, they must fill in their educational level, grade point average, educational level, age, gender, parent marital status, the strength of family relationship ties.
Abstainers will be categorized as those adolescents who have never taken more than a few sips in their life. The former drinkers are the adolescents who have consumed more than a few sips in one year and have not consumed any alcohol in the past year. While the current drinkers are those, who have taken more than a few sips within the year. The standard drink of this study can be a reference to one can of beer. The participants were asked if they have ever consumed alcohol that is more than a few sips. Those adolescents who had abstained or quit drinking will be questioned why they don’t want to drink or stopped drinking alcohol. The adolescents will be interviewed about their drinking habits, the experience of their first drink that is the age when they consumed first, the reason why they drunk and how accessible was the drink, the person they drink with, and the frequency and the quantity of the alcohol they have consumed in the last thirty days. Why is this being done?
This proposal is to introduce an intervention. Collecting data from the sample is not an intervention.
Ethical Considerations
There are serious ethical implications for examining illegal drinking behavior in a school setting. I doubt any parent would consent due to the incriminating nature of the study.
Before distributing the research,? the participating students will be informed of the objectives and the potential risks involved. The study will gain approval through the vulnerable participant page of the Initial Review Application (Alderson & Morrow, 2020) for permission and IRB consideration on greater than or minimal risk based on the criteria evaluation (Sherwood & Parsons, 2021). The adolescents will be allowed to join if they obtain a written consent form from their guardians or parents (Alderson & Morrow, 2020). The participants will be guaranteed anonymity, and names will not be used as a means of identification. The participants will be allowed to cease participating in the research without any consequences. It is unclear why a student would want to participate if participation is based on admitting to illegal drinking.
Research Design
The survey will address the gaps in understanding the alcohol use patterns among adolescents in their early adolescent years. A text message does not do this. The research design selected for this study is a quantitative methodology utilizing a quasi-experimental study design. No, collecting one’s perspectives is not an experimental design.. No there are no causal relationships being tested. The study will be conducted in the natural environment of the students in a school setting. The hypothesis to be tested is that students who receive intervention messages illustrating the negative consequences of alcohol in smartphones will less likely intend to engage in consumption. The selected sample will be divided into two groups those who receive and those who don’t recive the intervention messages. This is not a quasi-experimental design. The students will know they are not getting messages.
References
Alderson, P., & Morrow, V. (2020). The ethics of research with children and young people: A practical handbook. Sage.
Ajzen, I. (1991). The theory of planned behavior. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 50(2). https://doi.org/10.1016/0749-5978(91)90020-T
Bae, S., Ferreira, D., Suffoletto, B., Puyana, J. C., Kurtz, R., Chung, T., & Dey, A. K. (2017). Detecting drinking episodes in young adults using smartphone-based sensors. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 1(2), 1-36. https://doi.org/10.1145/3090051
Breuninger, M. M., Grosso, J. A., Hunter, W., & Dolan, S. L. (2020). Treatment of alcohol use disorder: Integration of Alcoholics Anonymous and cognitive behavioral therapy. Training and Education in Professional Psychology, 14(1), 19. https://doi.org/10.1037/tep0000265
Cooke, R., Dahdah, M., Norman, P., & French, D. P. (2016). How well does the theory of planned behavior predict alcohol consumption? A systematic review and meta analysis. Health Psychology Review, 10(2), 148- 167. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17437199.2014.947547
Sherwood, G., & Parsons, S. (2021). Negotiating the practicalities of informed consent in the field with children and young people: learning from social science researchers. Research Ethics, https://doi.org/10.1177/17470161211014941
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