Key Ethical Concerns
Promoting the active acquisition of knowledge and skills that are necessary for managing health-related issues is a crucial step toward meeting the needs of patients with heart disease (HDPs). HDPs need to be able to recognize essential risk factors to which they may be exposed and, therefore, evaluate the threat that the specified factors may pose to them. Thus, imminent threats to HPDs’ well-being will be eliminated, and possible aggravation of their condition will be avoided efficiently (Mittelstadt & Floridi, 2016). Herein lies the significance of the current study.
However, before starting the research, one may need to address several ethical concerns. Seeing that the design of the study implies recruiting participants and carrying out a qualitative analysis of their knowledge acquired in the course of lectures, there may be a threat to disclose some of the personal information of the people whose progress will be assessed. Furthermore, the issue of informed consent will have to be addressed accordingly; in case some of the patients are unable to sign it, the permission of their legal guardians will have to be retrieved (Fan, 2015).
Limitations of the Study: Research Design and the Associated Restrictions
Given the design of the research, the disadvantages of a case study as a research method will have to be considered. For instance, the possibility of a failure to represent all members of the target population appropriately due to a small number of research participants can be deemed as the primary limitation. Furthermore, it should be borne in mind that the information obtained from the participants may be very subjective or biased. Checking the veracity of the data provided by the participants, however, will barely be a possibility, which means that the accuracy of the results may suffer (Roller & Lavrakas, 2015).
One might argue that the specified problem can be addressed by introducing the target population to a set of rigid ethical standards according to which the research will be conducted. Thus, the subjectivity problem can be handled. Furthermore, the use of a specific sampling strategy, implying that the two groups should be split into clusters may lead to a significant increase in the representability of the outcomes. Thus, the efficacy of using patient education as the means of managing the needs of HPDs will be determined successfully despite a comparatively small number of research participants (Roller & Lavrakas, 2015).
Implications: Increasing Recovery Rates among Heart Disease Patients
Heart disease remains one of the primary health concerns of the 21st century. Apart from offering patients effective medications and advanced therapies, healthcare experts should also consider the use of patient education as the means of improving their recovery rates. It is expected that the research results will point to the success of using patient education, in general, and lectures, in particular, as the method of encouraging the target population to acquire and train the necessary skills. Furthermore, it is assumed that the promotion of the specified framework will prompt the further independent learning process among HDPs.
Thus, the research is bound to deliver the results that will become the platform for developing a comprehensive strategy for managing HDPs’ needs. The outcomes of the study are likely to prove the necessity to use lectures as the starting point for building awareness among patients. Therefore, it is expected that the results of the study will inform the further process of managing HDPs’ needs.
References
Fan, R. (2015). Family-oriented informed consent: East Asian and American perspectives. New York, NY: Springer.
Mittelstadt, B. D., & Floridi, L. (2016). The ethics of biomedical big data. New York, NY: Springer.
Roller, M. R., & Lavrakas, P. J. (2015). Applied qualitative research design: A total quality framework approach. New York, NY: Guilford Publications.