Assignment:
Could you please help me determine if this article is quantitative or qualitative? How do you know? Please help me understand the following questions:
1. Does the author identify one overarching theory by name?
2. Does the author provide information about the development of this theory?
3. Does the author give examples of how the theory has been used previously?
4. Does the author advance propositions or hypotheses that are based on the theory?
5. Does the author identify the independent and dependent variables?
6. Does the author state how the independent and dependent variables are related?
7. Does the author provide a rationale for why the variables are related this way based on the logic of the theory?
Readings:
Development of a telephone-based intervention for support persons to help smokers quit
By Christi A. Patten,, larra R. Petersen