For the past ten weeks, you have actively planned the construction of a survey tool which could be piloted in the real world. Subsequently, you conducted an item analysis to identify the best-fit item

INTERPRETATION OF PILOT SURVEY RESULTS 8

Interpretation of Pilot Survey Results

As per the data acquired from the pilot study, it was important to compile data collected to explain relevant findings on if there are different treatment methods which are effective in eliminating PTSD symptoms in patients to do a hypothetical test to acquire relevant results. The information was presented in a written document. The presentation of the acquired information regarding the questionnaire will be comprised in this chapter. The presentation of data is projected is done after doing two types of analysis methods which include both qualitative and quantitative interpretation. Phase One: Quantitative Interpretation of Results

The sample provided by the pilot study had a total of 36 women who participated due to considerations of financial constraints and time limits. The study questionnaire was supposed to identify the persons eligible for inclusion in the survey thereby using criteria of exclusion was minimal. Only the responses of subjects who were included to attain reliable results. The summary of questions asked is summarized in the tables below.

Inclusion: (out of the 36 selected for inclusion, 11 didn’t have any life-threatening experiences, the other remaining 2 persons decided not to be part of the study thereby making only 23 available of participation).

ELIGIBILITY TABLE

VARIABLE	FREQ.	PERC.
A) found eligible	25	92%

From the original number of persons found eligible to take part of the sample study who were 25 persons which represent 92% of original participants.

SELECTED FOR STUDY:

For the past ten weeks, you have actively planned the construction of a survey tool which could be piloted in the real world. Subsequently, you conducted an item analysis to identify the best-fit item 1

There was a total of 23 persons whom accepted to participate but do face different life threatening moments but as indicated in the table below.

LIFE THREATENING SITUATIONS

VARIABLES	FREQUENCY	PERCENTAGE%
Sexual abuse		23
Social mistreatment	10	43
Losing loved ones		17
Witnessing a murder
Watching a victim of assault

By the data collected, it projected a mean of 5 thereby providing a standard deviation of 1.37.

Severity of Fatal accidents

Due to viewing various life threatening situations faced by each participant, the research sought to examine the severity of fatal accidents:

VARIABLES	FREQUENCY	PERCENTAGE%
Hurting oneself severely	10	43
Having suicidal thoughts		17
Outburst of hunger		22
Trouble concentrating		13
Feeling guilty

After cumulating the cases faced by the participants, it gave a mean grade of 5 thus a standard deviation of 1.40

Evidence of Intrinsic or Extrinsic Bias or Questions about the Validity of the Test

Intrinsic biases are subconscious stereotypes that affect the way we make decisions (Breslau, 2012). These things happen in our society but most were unaware of them; whereas extrinsic bias is the tendency to attribute to more power and influence on external factors such as money than to internal factors such as to make one feel good about oneself (Lacey, McPherson, Samuel, Powell-Sears & Head, 2013). In this report, there is a lot of attribute toward both intrinsic and extrinsic bias in such that the subjects who participated in the report were picked on the bases of having experienced any traumatic experience such as sexual abuse, accidents or any sought of violence.

How to Revise the Questionnaire to Boost Psychometric Properties

Health bias in the clinical decision making has been an emerging area of research, especially in the areas of health inequalities (Kolk, Hirshberg, Suvak & Spinazzola, 2016). In this context of PTSD, researchers should focus on studying the effects of sexual about and find out why women are more affected their male counterparts. If research is made in the more appropriate way it will reveal women are more exposed to trauma and PTSD than men. Rates of sexual abuse are more common women than they are in men and it has been studied that after trauma women feel depressed start abusing alcohol or consuming other stress relaxing substances (Calhoun, & Tedeschi, 2014). Therefore, any questionnaire designed to explore PTSD among women should put this into consideration. The questionnaire can be revised to include questions such as: Have you ever suffered a past mental health problem, for example, depression or anxiety: Have you ever been sexually assaulted: Were you injured during the event: Have you ever experienced other stress full events afterward: Do you have any good social support.

References

Breslau, N. (2012). Gender differences in trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder. The journal of gender-specific medicine: JGSM: the official journal of the Partnership for Women's Health at Columbia, 5(1), 34-40.

Calhoun, L. G., & Tedeschi, R. G. (Eds.). (2014). Handbook of posttraumatic growth: Research and practice. Routledge.

Kolk, B. A., Hirshberg, L., Suvak, M., & Spinazzola, J. (2016). A Pilot Study of Neurofeedback for Chronic PTSD. Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, 40(4).

Lacey, K. K., McPherson, M. D., Samuel, P. S., Powell-Sears, K., & Head, D. (2013). The impact of different types of intimate partner violence on the mental and physical health of women in different ethnic groups. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 28(2), 359-385.