Clinical: Practical Investigation

Question 1

What was the aim of your clinical practical investigation?

Answer 1

To apply content analysis to investigate if there’s a difference in how tabloids and broadsheets report mental health.

Question 2

What was the procedure of your clinical practical investigation?

Answer 2

3 researchers created a tally chart of neutral and negative words and talked when they came up in the newspapers.

Question 3

What tabloid did you use in your clinical practical investigation?

Answer 3

Daily Mail

Question 4

What broadsheet did you use in your clinical practical investigation?

Answer 4

Guardian

Question 5

What were the strengths of your clinical practical investigation?

Answer 5

+East to repeat as keyword type established.
+Easy to analyse and collect quantitative data.

Question 6

What are the weaknesses of your clinical practical investigation?

Answer 6

-Not generalisable to only 2 newspapers as there were only 2 sources.
-Time consuming and human error could skew results.