Research Dbr Shuyi

Method

Participation

We have interview 10 participations for this research, and the male and female ratio is 4: 6. The participations are about our age, and some of them are older than us. The participations are our entire friends or friend related people, in-depth interview unlike other research method, find a person who related to our research topic and have long time interview, it is hard to do that with strangers, and participations are feel more confortable to talk to people who they know about their secret. All participations are currently attending college or previously attended college. The interview is based on the participation has been used Adderall in his life, it is meaningless to interview people who have never used. So, all the participations have been used or are still using the Adderall. (Mack, 2005)

Procedure

We are using in-depth interview, Skype interview and written interview in this research, we have asked the participations about 1 hour for our prepared question. First, we are asking they about some general questions like when they start to use Adderall, how they feel when use the Adderall, why they use it and what context will make them use it. Then we ask their opinion about Adderall, such as “the use of Adderall as almost an advantage since it gives you an upper hand when used for studying and test taking” and “Adderall is similar to cocaine”. We have take notes during the interview, there is only one participation allow us to record the interview. They feel less confortable with interview while recording, and they do not want to people identify them by their voice. All the interviews are transition to documents. The record and documents are kept in secret. We use English letter to named all the record and documents, like interview A, interview B, in order to ensure privacy and security.

Privacy

All the documents are keep in our group’s web box; no one can see they except our group member. We use letter to named very documents, so even group member cannot know whom the other group member interviewed. Furthermore, we will delete all the items after this research project has been done.

Result

The age is the important factor to impact the way people using the medication. Some of people are start take Adderall in very early age, the earliest one in our research is start at 7, and also there is people start at third grade and fourth grade. But the majority of people are starting take Adderall when they go to college; it is about 19 to 22. People in older age are more opposed to using Adderall as a study tool or partying. The people we interview, only have one person do not have legal prescription on using Adderall, and other 9 people are legal to use it.

ADHD is the mostly self-diagnosis disorder, people may have not go to see the doctor, but they can feel that they have ADHD. There is a participation said, “I mean I haven’t been to the doctor about it or anything but I KNOW I have it.” According to the research, the participation who were prescribed at younger age, such as primary school, were be diagnosed with this disorder by their family member or doctor or teacher. The participations were prescribed in college were all diagnosed by themselves or friends. In the college, their friends use the Adderall and feel it useful, they with recommend to other.