Therefore it is thought that life stress and negative emotions can reduce the effectiveness of the immune system. A criticism with this study is that a cause and effect can’t be established because there was no direct manipulation of the independent variable i.e. the stress index. This was a questionnaire so demand characteristics were present meaning that they could have not been telling the truth (social desirability) or have forgotten. Also in this study there wasn’t a direct way of measuring immune function and is only an indirect study.
Examine why some sociologists choose not to use experiments when conducting research? (20 marks) Many sociologists choose not to use laboratory experiments for research because it fails to achieve their main goal of validity. To have complete control of conditions in a lab experiment is impossible as that level of control over variables would require a completely artificial environment which will be very expensive. However in contrast other sociologists such as Positivists disagree and are in favour of laboratory experiments. Other alternatives to laboratory experiments are field experiment and the comparative method.
Any arrests outside of the state would not be included as the date of failure. An additional limitation of the study is that it is possible that the relationship between drug treatment and reduced recidivism is due to unmeasured and unknown variables predicting both. The final limitation is that the research does not differentiate between in-program recidivism and post-program recidivism. Be able to differentiate between the two is necessary because of the probability that subjects behave differently when being directly supervised by the court. Despite the limitations found in the BCDTC, the findings of the research proved that subjects who participated in the DTC were less likely to be rearrested than the control group.
WINTERBOURNE VIEW The review found that there was a systemic failure to protect people or to investigate allegations of abuse. The provider had failed in its duty to notify the C.Q.C(Quality Care Commission) of serious incidents involving injuries to patients, or occasions when they had gone missing. Inspectors said that staff did not appear to understand the needs of the people in their care, adults with learning disabilities , complex needs and challenging behaviour. Staff who had no background in care services had been recruited, references were not always checked and staff were not trained or supervised properly. Some staff were too ready to use methods of restraint without considering alternatives.
was a care home registered to Castlebeck Care Ltd a report by CQC had found that they had failed to ensure that people living at Winterbourne View were adequately protected from risk, including the risks of unsafe practices by its own staff. The report shows in several areas where the system failed these were •The managers did not ensure that major incidents were reported to the Care Quality Commission as required. • Planning and delivery of care did not meet people's individual needs. • They did not have robust systems to assess and monitor the quality of services. • They did not identify, and manage, risks relating to the health, welfare and safety of patients.
Supposedly, the switch was to create operational diagnostic criteria’s, which is seen as more consistent than ones based on clinicians descriptions. The shift in the DSM paradigm was not based on scientific information or the recognition of disorders by their biological causes. It was due in part to politics and discord in the psychiatric field the government’s involvement with research and policy making in mental health. Insurance companies demanding proof of diagnosis and that treatment are necessary and pharmaceutical companies needing an avenue to push their products. The DSM has been unreliable in helping clinicians consistently diagnose patients, 2e children remain victims of the diagnostic system which can lead to misdiagnosis thereby children are prescribed dangerous
2) Study subjects were only from OEF/OIF veterans, not from other wars or eras. 3) ICD-9-CM diagnosis codes were obtained from administrative EMR’s and not verified. 4) Only veterans who were screened for MST were included. 5) There may be many more variables not accounted for that could have made a difference in outcomes. 6) Temporal and casual relationships were not measured because they were out of the scope of this investigation.
From the con side of the topic Physicians legally and morally should not assist in suicide of terminally ill patients. This simple fact could boil down to the simple fact that suicide is suicide and it is morally wrong. A lot of countries around the world feel as though this is not moral and this why it is illegal in a vast majority of countries around the world. You could argue that this goes against a doctor’s job. The medical person who is administering the drug is not doing their job as a doctor, which is to help people not kill
In the 70ties Nestle has faced the law suit. The cause of the controversy was that the Nestle Infant formula was partially the reason of the death of 3rd World kids. Its partial involvement was due to the fact that Nestle marketing strategy wasn’t adjusted to the specifics of 3rd World, they treated new markets as the local one. The aspects of country economical and development level as well as the environment, culture and social living aspects weren’t taken into consideration while entering the market. However, the situation had place in the 70ties during different marketing era which was concerned mostly about product not social responsibility
My criticism of this theory is that thought processes without emotions make our decisions too concrete. When we treat people in the medical field, we cannot say it is a rule that everyone must received a blood transfusion if they are below a set number because we are not thinking about the consequences of the person we are treating. Some religions believe that blood transfusions are toxic to their being and would never want to receive a transfusion, so I believe that