Clinical Practical (APFC)

Question 1

Research question

Answer 1

How do mainstream political party in this country view mental health?

Question 1

Aim

Answer 1

To investigate the views held by four of the main political parties in the UK towards mental health

Question 2

Dependent variable

Answer 2

Measuring their positions regarding mental health

Question 3

Research hypothesis

Answer 3

There will be a significant difference in the viewpoints of left-leaning and right-leaning political parties in terms of mental health

Question 4

Null hypothesis

Answer 4

There will be no difference in left-leaning and right-leaning political parties in terms of mental health except by chance

Question 5

Procedure

Answer 5

Familiarise with 4 manifestos (data corpus)
Decide on initial categories and refine them
Tally up mentions of ‘mental’ regarding attitudes, viewpoints, positions and policies on mh using behavioural categories
Anallyse using %s and wuote (pie charts to compare visuals)

Question 6

Ethical considerations

Answer 6

Don’t need consent etc
Manifestos in public domain so can be used

Question 7

Quantitative analysis inter-rate reliability

Answer 7

Moderate to high
Liberal democrats mentioned mh a lot and is very dense (packs a lot of information into a small space)
BUT
People can tally up points differently, each sentence could be counted as three tallies per point or per sentence (varies between what each researcher chose to do)
Green party left many special interest groups in one sentence, could be tallied individually or together

Question 8

3 conclusions from our quantitative analysis
1) times mentioned
2) accessability
3) mentioned mh reforming

Answer 8

1) Right wing (conservatives) mentioned mental health 10 times, left mentioned mh 21 times
2) Right mentioned mh in the context of accessability proportionally more than left wing parties by 30% vs 20.7%
3) Right wing conservatives mentioned reforming mh proportionally less than the left wing parties: 0% vs 25.7%

Question 9

Qualitative findings similarity between parties

Answer 9

Both suggest increasing funding for young people and children
Conservatives - “increase proportion of mh care… including children and young people”
Labour - “increase the proportion of mh budget spent on children
Showing they both have similar intentions for MH funding in children

Question 10

Qualitative findings difference between left and right parties

Answer 10

How they refer to reforming MH services
Labour - “the current system is too fragmented
Conservatives - do not mention reforming system, only increasing funding
Left leaning place central focus on changing methods of NHS for MH compared to right leaning

Question 11

Strength of the content analysis for your practical

Answer 11

All separately read through manifestos and tallied up our results in behavioural categories
Compared our categories and were similar showing we had good inter-rate reliability

Question 12

Describe how you carried out the content analysis for you practical

Answer 12

Familiarise with 4 manifestos and searched for term ‘mental health’
Decided on initial categories and themes relating to mental health, then refined them
Tallied up mentions of ‘mental’ regarding attitudes, viewpoints, positions and policies on mh using behavioural categories
Anallyse using %s and quotes (pie charts to compare visuals)