Healthcare and Fitness Research

Statistics and Research Method for Business Decisions Potential of Fitness Industry
Fitness industries today are increasingly receiving clients from all sorts of demographics and ages. Human fitness is turning out to be an asset that people are taking every effort to ensure it is preserved and protected at all times. The fitness standards are essential because they are multifaceted but appear to converge towards the need for a long healthy life characterized by productivity and reduced vulnerabilities. Fitness is a concern for almost every individual in the world today and the reasons are diverse and varied depending on one's goals and aspirations. Every individual in the world, across all ages, aspires to be healthy for some reasons. For instance, every individual seeks to be healthy so that they can engage freely in almost everything that requires a healthy body system (Jacobsen, 2011). Human health is a concern for attacks from infections. Thus, every individual will desire and work hard to keep up with the need to be fit to have a body system that is fit enough to fight off infections of any kind. Having a healthy body resembles having a fit body. People train their bodies for different reasons and engagements, most of which are imperative to the overall health of the families and the society as a whole (Biller, 2002).

People desire to be athletic, something which pulls them towards engaging in fitness programs. Being athletic enables them to engage in different sporting activities and feel happy and self-esteemed. The desire to have a body figure and composure that enables one to be confident in life and front of others also make many people seek fitness programs. People are aroused by the desire to keep fit and avoid infections that are detrimental to their state of being, like avoiding high blood pressures and obesity. Other people just want to be fit as a way of standing a chance to have self-defense mechanisms and post courage at all times (Biller, 2002).

For the study to succeed, it is necessary to have a clear methodology that will be effective and efficient to collect every detail of data that will be instrumental in bringing about the comprehensive study. The study will adopt a quantitative and non-experimental causal-comparative research design. A survey study will be done to acquire data from respondents within their areas of residence or place of work. For instance, while targeting a sample of about one hundred students, the researcher will place an advert in a school newspaper or the school noticeboards requesting them to participate willingly (Ferkel, Stodden, Judge, Griffin, & Hamman, 2015). Anyone who agrees to take part in the interview will be asked to read and sign an informed consent form before participating and promised their complete anonymity. Data is required essentially for a wide field of study. Therefore, it will be necessary to follow the right procedures to acquire the necessary data and make sure that the data collected is credible (Brehm-Curtis, 2014). Respondents will be identified using random and stratified sampling techniques. The samples collected and used will be approximated so that they represent the larger population in which the conclusions will be based.

To get the data, questionnaires will be designed, closed and open-ended so that they stand a better chance of acquiring a universal data that is a representative of the larger population. Moreover, data will be obtained from referenced materials like historical and newspapers representing older researches done and approved previously (Brehm-Curtis, 2014). Data from such fields will be instrumental in fine-tuning the available data and presenting it with the right steps knowing the existing gaps and hence addressing them appropriately. Survey will be done in different areas since there is no exact place that will be pointed out as to give the necessary data for testing the hypothesis. Following the phenomenological approach, researchers seek to understand meaning in events and human interactions. This is critical in data interpretation since researcher must be focused on obtaining meanings and relevance from otherwise meaningless data (Jacobsen, 2011).

A manageable sample of approximately 100 respondents will be used. Notably, a simple random sampling will be done within populated areas and even less populated areas, both urban and rural, so that the sample selected is a representative of a whole. The data obtained from the samples will be treated collectively so that they stand to give a credible representation of the larger population (Brehm-Curtis, 2014). The data collection process will be done during an active time when people are outside and not occupied, like at night. Streets will be selected to obtain all sorts of audience. The best time that the data collection process will be done is at any time, especially when the respondents are susceptible to be accessed and have time to yield to the data collection tools (Ferkel, Stodden, Judge, Griffin, & Hamman, 2015). The data collected in a quantitative study includes more than words; attitudes, feelings, vocal and facial expressions and other behaviors are also involved. The data that may consist of interview transcripts, field notes, records and historical documents treated to meticulous analysis (Brehm-Curtis, 2014).

Data will be analyzed using different methods of data analysis. Statistical processes will be involved in assembling the data and analyzing them as a way of acquiring the best conclusions and recommendations for the study. Data will be represented regarding themes in the case of theoretical representations. Quantitative data will be subjected to SPSS analysis so that the themes and figures are given meaning and hence can be used to make certain conclusions and recommendations for the study. The data will be presented in analyzed different forms like line graphs, bar graphs, and pie charts, among others. Data analysis will be essential because it will give meaning regarding the hypothesis stated based on what attracts people towards fitness programs (Brehm-Curtis, 2014). Respondents will give responses that are varied in nature but with analysis, it will be possible to classify such data, create categories, and distinctions that separate different responses although similar from those that are different (Goodwin, 2009).

The standards and interests of the people in fitness need to be improved. The improvement mechanisms will be obtained from the different parameters that are used to cater the data, analyze the data, and give them meaning. While seeking to relay the best practices that will indicate reasons for individual involvement in fitness programs and even seek to improve them, the data collection processes need to be aligned with the design and the hypothesis (Brehm-Curtis, 2014). The data collected needs to be susceptible to equitable understanding so that they stand to be a representation of the larger population. Data collection will involve filling in questionnaires, collection resident views, feelings, perceptions, and even suggestions on what can be done best to preserve the dignity and need to improve human fitness standards in any society. Probably, the suggestions that are going to be given are based on the divergent practices that people engage as part of the fitness programs (Biller, 2002).

The standards and interests of the people in health and fitness can be heightened with an equitable study that seeks to collect respondent ideas and suggestions on what best can be done to alleviate the current situations in place (Brehm-Curtis, 2014). Reference
Biller, H.B. (2002). Creative Fitness: Applying Health Psychology and Exercise Science to Everyday Life. New York: Greenwood Publishing Group

Brehm-Curtis, B. (2014). Psychology of Health and Fitness: Applications for Behavior Change. F. A. Davis Company

Ferkel, R. C. Stodden, D. F. Judge, L. W. Griffin, K. & Hamman, D. (2015). Relationship between Health-related Fitness Knowledge and Physical Fitness. International Journal of Physical Education, Sports and Health, Vol. 1(6): 76-82

Goodwin C. J. (2009). Research in Psychology: Methods and Design. New York: John Wiley & Sons

Jacobsen K. H. (2011). Introduction to Health Research Methods. New York: Jones & Bartlett Publishers