Keelin Leger
RE: Week 1 Discussion
COLLAPSE
Exploring the Social Problem of Mental Health among homeless People
Program of Study:
This was just supposed to be YOUR program of study (Forensics? Teaching? Developmental? Self-Design?)
Social Problem: The phenomenon of interest is the Mental health of homeless people. The mental health of homeless people is a particular concern because it contributes to mental illness among many individuals who do not have a place to stay or shelter. Studies have cited homelessness among people as one of the causes of mental illness (Duffy & Hutchison 2019), and therefore, addressing this social problem is the best approach that can help manage the situation. According to Håkanson & Öhlén (2016), individuals having mental illness often experience homelessness for extended periods, and therefore they lack interaction with their family members. Provision of people with mental illness with housing is significant in helping to address the social problem of mental health issues.
I am struggling a bit to understand the problem specifically. While homelessness and mental illness may be related (higher prevalence of mental illness among the homeless), it cannot really be said that one causes the other. We know that homeless people often have mental illnesses that need treatment and that providing housing may help stabilize them but it is not a treatment for mental illnesses since there are many forms of mental illness. I can see that providing housing for the homeless may have several different effects that you may want to look into as a research question. Does providing housing, increase treatment access? Reduce symptoms? Increase treatment compliance? Etc.
Quantitative Research Problem: The scholarly community does not know
The research problem must be something that goes beyond the rate of something. You don’t gain much knowledge about the “causes or associated issues” just by the rate something.
But as you see from my comments above, while mental illness may be higher among the homeless, this knowledge does not contribute to addressing the problem of mental illness among the homeless. In research we want to collect data that will SUPPORT some intervention (providing housing) or treatment (providing therapy) by measuring some effect of the intervention or treatment. You can do this quantitatively by comparing groups of homeless with mental illness before and after the intervention or treatments in perhaps one of the effects I mentioned in above.
Quantitative Research Purpose: The purpose of this quantitative study is to determine t
You have great alignment in your study elements so I think you understand this concept well. Once you revise the research problem, write this to be in alignment as you did here
Quantitative Research Question:
Here as well, revise to align with the problem and purpose as you revise it above. See the examples and the readings assigned in Creswell and Creswell.
The format of the question for a quantitative study should be either “What is the extent of the difference between (groups, conditions, or treatments) in some outcome? OR’
What is the relationship between X (some predictor) and Y (some outcome)?
Qualitative Research Problem: The scholarly community does not know
This is not different from your quantitative scenario above. Rates, comparisons and differences between groups are examined using quantitative methods.
Qualitative studies are about “exploring” some meaning in some experience people have by asking them to describe their experiences.
It is not clear if you have been able to look over the resources this week to help you understand the difference between quantitative and qualitative studies so see my suggested readings once you have your textbook, if you don’t have it.
Also look over the introduction, the discussion examples and note how these 2 approaches are different.
Qualitative Research Purpose: The purpose of this qualitative study is to i
Qualitative Research Question:
Duffy, J., & Hutchison, A. (2019). Working with Homeless Men in London: A Mental Health Service Perspective. In The Palgrave Handbook of Male Psychology and Mental Health (pp. 533-556). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
Håkanson, C., & Öhlén, J. (2016). Illness narratives of people who are homeless. International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being, 11(1), 32924.
Kerman, N., Sylvestre, J., Aubry, T., Distasio, J., & Schütz, C. G. (2019). Predictors of mental health recovery in homeless adults with mental illness. Community mental health journal, 55(4), 631-640.
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