Health Psychology Response Past Conducted Research Led Article Review

Health Psychology Response

Past conducted research led experts to believe that men as a gender tend to not seek medical attention as often as they should for various health concerns. The purpose of this research study was to determine why it is that men under-use primary health services. Since reasons for this attitude towards healthcare are psychological, it necessitates a type of study which is subjective and based upon the individual opinions and experiences of the subjects involved. Researchers are particularly interested in the past negative experiences that these male subjects may have had with healthcare practitioners which would add to this phenomenon of under-utilization.

While conducting the investigation, researchers conducted "semi-structured" interviews with male GPs who were between ages 35 and 53. The only male GPs that researchers could get to participate in the experiment were persons that were some way already known to researchers. The writers of the document admit themselves that this creates a bias because the men known to the researchers would more than likely already hold views that would be similar to those of the researchers themselves.Like-minded thinking would create a sense of camaraderie which would encourage a dialogue and continue the acquaintanceship to a position where the GP would be confident in participating. This is a concern because in an ideal research experiment the researchers and participants should have no pre-existing relationship which could impact the findings. Similarly, the fact that the GPs investigated were in such a small number, would make it seem that the findings could not be universally applied.

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As the topic of the research conducted was highly subjective, so too the analysis of the collected data was done in a subjective manner. The interviews of the ten subjects were transcribed and copies given out to researchers, a method referred to….....