Riekert and Drotar (1999) results, conclusions, strengths, weaknessess Flashcards
(7 cards)
What was the main conclusion of the study?
- Adolescents from families who returned their questionnaires, had higher adherence scores and tested blood sugar levels more frequently that thoes who didn’t.
Adolescents from families who returned their questionnaires, had higher adherence scores and tested blood sugar levels more frequently that thoes who didn’t. Why?
- Adherence + returning the questionnaire require organisation and planning skills,
- so thoes who returned the questionnaire may have better organisation and planning skills.
- Non-consenters- may not have wanted to dicuss issues around diabetes or familal relationships.
Name one strength and one weakness of Reikert and Drotar’s (1999) study?
Strength- collection of quantitative data
Weaknesses- self-report method
Explain 1 weakness of the study?
- The data collected relies on (subjective) self-reported data– prone to biases, and inaccuracies.
- as ppts may want to HIDE the truth about their adherence OR not REMEMBER details.
Explain 1 strength of the study
Researchers collected rich quantitative data
* Adhernece scores from the initial adherence interviews.
* Number of blood sugar tests from the medical chart reviews.
* Allows for statistical analysis + comparisons between ppts.
The researchers compared demographic information between the 3 groups- were there any major demographic differences?
- No- only differed in terms of fathers education level.
Were their any differences across the groups in terms of adherence?
Non-returners- completed signficantly fewer blood sugar checks than participants or non-consenters.
Non-returners- had significantly lower adherence scores than participants.
Even, when blood-sugar level testing was removed from the results- there were still differences in adherence rates between non-returners vs partcipants.
