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Question: Discuss about the Qualitative MethodforOverweight. Answer: Introduction The paper deals with the discussion on the research elements of a qualitative research paper. For this study, research based on childhood obesity is selected. The key terms used for searching are obesity, nursing, qualitative, children, overweight, and childhood obesity. The database searched for this purpose is PubMed. Research Article Turner, G. L., Owen, S., Watson, P. M. (2016). Addressing childhood obesity at school entry: Qualitative experiences of school health professionals.Journal of Child Health Care,20(3), 304-313. In the paper by Turner et al. (2016), the research is a qualitative study, which aims to explore the experiences of the school health professionals in addressing the problem of childhood obesity and lifestyle issues with the families. It intends to identify their training needs. A qualitative research design includes flexible and sensitive methods such as structured/semi-structured interview or open ended discussion and focus groups and is grounded in an interpretivist position (Robinson, 2014). The study was conducted in the North West England having high prevalence of childhood obesity. The participants were selected from health services grouped into three geographical areas. It includes service managers (3), child health practioners (16), and school nurse (7). According to Robinson (2014), purposive sampling is preferred in qualitative research design, which is subjective. The sampling in this research article is based on the objective that the participants are placed on different roles in delivering care and address childhood obesity. The research methodology includes semi-structured interview to obtain experiences of the managers. In this method, a set of questions are as asked that are predetermined and which can prompt discussion. It gives the researcher to explore particular theme and new ideas to be brought up, which will create foundation for the research. It maintains the balance between the focus of ethnographic survey and the open-ended interview (Brinkmann, 2014). The researcher has conducted two focus groups with the school nurses and the practioners. A focused group interview means interacting with individuals who have common frame of reference and may are unfamiliar to each other. It gives insights into how certain opinions can be used to evaluate existing programs on obesity or develop new interventions by analysing how people think and feel. This method will help obtain their diverse experiences in regards to the social service. Focus groups gives rich textual data on the focussed issue (Mann, 2016). An open-ended email questionnaire was provided to those participants unable to attend the focus group. This questionnaires involves and excludes simple yes/no as in quantitative surveys. This method will give further information for later quantitative analysis. The open-ended questions generates meaningful answer to the existing research questions of social science (Brinkmann, 2014). The article uses thematic analysis for data interpretation. This method involves recording, transcribing, examining and identifying patterns of themes associated with research questions (Mann, 2016). Conclusion According to Silverman (2016) qualitative study is based on social constructivism perspective. It helps gain insights into the attitudes, preferences and beliefs of the stakeholders. As this method includes direct observation and in-depth evaluation with the target population it helped in identifying the factors, affecting the decision-making, which is not feasible in quantitative analysis (Mann, 2016). The rationale for selecting this particular article, is to enhance knowledge on qualitative research paradigm. The chosen articles includes only qualitative research elements and excludes any use of quantitative method, systematic review and literature review. Thus, it satisfied the study purpose. References Brinkmann, S. (2014). Interview. InEncyclopedia of Critical Psychology(pp. 1008-1010). Springer New York. Mann, S. (2016). Qualitative Interviews Overview. InThe Research Interview(pp. 30-57). Palgrave Macmillan UK. Robinson, O. C. (2014). Sampling in interview-based qualitative research: A theoretical and practical guide.Qualitative Research in Psychology,11(1), 25-41. Silverman, D. (Ed.). (2016).Qualitative research. Sage. Turner, G. L., Owen, S., Watson, P. M. (2016). Addressing childhood obesity at school entry: Qualitative experiences of school health professionals.Journal of Child Health Care,20(3), 304-313.