MEDICAL AND NURSING
Medical and Nursing: Quantitative Research Design
Problem Identification
Diabetic patients suffering with stage 2 or 3 pressure ulcers use antibiotic creams and daily changing of the dressing in the standard care method. However, the healing time is quite long, sometimes weeks or months.
Purpose Statement
The research aims to test the theory that low-pressure pulsatile lavage would help decrease healing time for diabetic patients along with standard care treatment.
Hypothesis or Research Question
The proposed research question is:
Would low-pressure pulsatile lavage decrease the healing time of standard care treatment for diabetic patients with stage 2 or 3 pressure ulcers?
Intervention
Low-pressure pulsatile lavage might be beneficial for decreasing the healing time for diabetic patients since healing in diabetes is a challenge (Spampinato et al., 2020). It is because the biochemical components within the blood system of the diabetic patient show complex immunity, slower blood circulation, and malfunction in the microvascular system (Spampinato et al., 2020). The wounds are not noticed immediately by the body as the pain...
The wounded area becomes highly vulnerable to
infection, thus, causing slow healing and fewer chances of getting proper treatment.
Best Suited Research Design
The best research design for this...
…usually compared with
numbers and
statistics to measure the accurate performance of an
intervention against the other (Stoppler, 2021). The quantitative nature of controlled experiments lets the investigator balance the benefits and harms of one treatment compared to another, which is the real intention of current research (Battelino & Mauricio, 2021).
Dependent (DV)/Independent (IV) Variables
The dependent variable is the healing time for diabetic patients with stage 2 or 3 pressure ulcers. The independent variable is the additional treatment, the low-pressure pulsatile lavage method, and the standard care method.
Conceptual Framework
Dependent variable: Healing time for diabetic patients
Independent variable: Low pressure pulsatile lavage method
Mediating variable:…
