Part 6

Use the feedback you received in to revise and finalize your data collection plan and procedures. In an APA-formatted Word document describe your planned approach to collecting data using your selected instruments. Include the following:

• What data will you collect? Justify why you chose it. It must be appropriate to answer the questions posed in relation to the quantitative tradition chosen.
• What type of data collection tool are you using?
• Explain any approaches and/or activities you will use to minimize biases and enhance the validity of your study.
• How many questions are included in your questionnaire? What important information would you want to share about your questionnaire? Is this an established reliable or valid measure or is this a new, untested measure you created? Provide the questionnaire questions in an
• If using alternative data collection, include information about your data collection method.

Every detail about your data collection must be included here. If the data comes from a secondary source, include details from the original study.

Action Items

1. Describe your data collection plan and procedures according to the directions in the Overview.
2. Submit the completed first draft of your assignment. Your work will automatically be checked by Turnitin.
3. Access your Turnitin report by reviewing your Submission Details for this assignment. Revise your work as needed based on the feedback.
4. By the due date indicated, re-submit the final version of your work.

feedback attached

FeedBack Is below:

I grew up in Mississippi and intimately understand the struggles rural residents often face with access to care. First, Id like to say that I very much appreciate the attention you are drawing to this matter to improve outcomes for Type-2 diabetics.

Your data collection plan is very clear and shows your understanding of experimental design. I would have loved to see your research question explicitly stated, but your thorough explanation helped me infer it. I believe your randomized controlled trial is well aligned with it. You also did an excellent job of delineating between your control and intervention groups.

Determining the appropriate sample size was the most difficult part of my own planning. I thought you executed this quite well, using the power analysis, and provided a very strong justification for the clinically significant HbA1c markers as your metric.

I feel your participation inclusion criteria were both well-thought out and well-defined. Furthermore, your use of the Rural-Urban Commuting Area codes to operationalize rural was a thoughtful consideration in this study. I dont know whether you currently live in Mississippi or have lived there, but you have an in-depth, comprehensive understanding of the study population. For this study to be successful, you will certainly need the cooperation between community health centers, clinics, and churches to establish trust and encourage participation.

While I am not familiar with testing norms for diabetes, measuring HbA1c at baseline, three months, and six months seems reasonable for assessing diabetes management. I particularly appreciated how you included not only medical metrics but also quality-of-life indicators in your model. Again, as a former resident of Mississippi, I acknowledge how important a digital literacy assessment is to the success of a study. The thoughtfulness you showed by including it is methodologically strong and reinforces that you care about improving outcomes, not just about data collection.

My own research is best served by nonrandom sampling, so reading about your study encouraged me to learn more about randomized studies. I found this article particularly useful in explaining the different ways to randomize to me (even though the implementation of randomization seems a bit oxymoronic):

Kang, M., Ragan, B. G., & Park, J.-H. (2008). Issues in outcomes research: An overview of randomization techniques for clinical trials. Journal of Athletic Training, 43(2), 215221. https://doi.org/10.4085/1062-6050-43.2.215

Which of these techniques, if any, do you believe you will implement?

Finally, how often do you think you will need to execute reminder contacts? Is it tied directly to appointments, or would they need to be more frequent? Would you manage those yourself, or would you collaborate with the health centers and clinics?

This is a well-designed data collection plan that I enjoyed reading. It reflects a very solid understanding of experimental research.

Cheers!

Meagan