Assignment task:
I am doing a study of individuals who have a concurrent diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder and bipolar disorder, a persistent mental disease. I plan to use a randomized controlled trial and standardized questionnaires to collect numerical data and perform statistical analysis, classifying it as quantitative. I need help with the following questions:
Which methodology (which means the approach or methods you will use to conduct your study) are you using?
Why did you choose this approach, and why is it the most logical given your research topic?
Discuss the pros and cons of using each method of data collection (e.g., self-reports, observational, or physiological measures). Provide one example of when each would be useful and explain your reasoning. In addition, select a peer-reviewed article for each method of data collection (e.g., 3 total), summarize the articles, and explain how each research method was used. Make sure that the example you gave for the second part of the assignment (e.g., about when the research method would be useful) is different from the examples used in the peer-reviewed journal articles.