clinical practical Flashcards
What was the aim of your clinical practical?
To conduct a content analysis on news articles to investigate their attitudes towards mental health
What was the sample for your clinical practical?
Two news articles - one from the Sun and one from the Guardian
Describe the procedure for your clinical practical
Read through the 2 articles and coded initial interesting terms about mental illness
Counted up the occurrences of words e.g. ‘stigma’ ‘illness’ and whether they were used positively or negatively
Read through again to create final codes
Describe the results for your clinical practical
The Guardian used more positive words e.g. 3 occurrences of ‘illness’
The Sun was more negative e.g. 4 occurrences of ‘no stigma’
What is a strength of your clinical practical in terms of reliability?
- I could repeat this using the same mental health search terms and review the same/similar articles. This means we could repeat the process using the same standardised procedure e.g. search terms and see if we got reliable results.
*I used another student to provide inter-rater reliability reading the mental health articles - could check if they found the same quantitative data about positive and negative terms related to mental health that I did.
What is a strength of using secondary data in your clinical practical?
Quick and easy to gather, the articles already exist so ethics are not a concern
What is a strength of your clinical practical in terms of validity?
I filtered/vetted the articles about mental health I used to make sure they were relevant to the aim. This makes them more valid/representative of the media’s attitude to mental health
What is a weakness of your clinical practical in terms of validity?
what I see is subjective because different people could interpret the articles comments differently e.g. ‘sickness’ as a positive rather than a negative as it acknowledges mental illness as a ‘real illness’
What is a weakness of the sample of your clinical practical?
results about attitudes to mental health gathered from this don’t represent the whole British media. (They were also ethnocentric all being from the UK so don’t represent global media)
