Eliminating Research Bias

Eliminating Research Bias

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Health professionals and institutions alike advocate for good working relationships between physicians and nurses. It is crucial to maintain a good relationship between these two parties so as to create an environment that focuses on providing optimal care for the patients. This can only be achieved with co-operation from both the nurse and the physician alike. The purpose of this research is to determine whether physicians give nurses the deserved attention and respect. The research addresses this issue on the basis of gender. It seeks to establish whether the attention and respect offered to female nurses outweighs that offered to their male counterparts.

The research involves observations of different clinics in different conditions. In the process, various health professionals including physicians and nurses will be questioned and proper deductions made from the research conducted. In order for the correct results and deductions it is important that the research process be fair and representative of the actual situation. The research should eliminate bias based on the experimental expectations as well as participant expectations.

Research bias, also referred to as experimenter bias, is a tendency by researchers to conduct research in manner that favours a certain outcome and do the same for the results. In this particular case the research ought to involve various subjects without selective inclusion or exclusion by the researcher. (Grimes & Schulz 2002) This should be in terms of selecting the hospitals to conduct the research in as well as selecting different subjects to interview or question. Hospitals selected should be both high-end and low-end health facilities. The research should also select hospitals with an equal representation of nurses from both sexes, male and female. In doing so the results obtained are fair and representative of both genders.

In curbing bias from the responses by nurses and physicians, the research should consider limiting the information availed to the respondents (Shuttleworth 2014). For instance, the respondents need not know the objective of the experiment. If they did some might intentionally provide responses that would skew the results in a certain manner. Neutral questions should be asked to the respondents and the questions should not allude to the thesis statement that the research is trying to approve or disapprove.