Building the Foundation – Defining the Problem Statement and Theoretical Framework 

Building the Foundation – Defining the Problem Statement and Theoretical Framework 

The proposed study focuses on mental healthcare. The identified problem is poor access to mental health among ethnic minority groups, causing diminished consumption of mental healthcare resources, functional decline, and increased morbidity and mortality.

There is a consensus on the significance of mental healthcare in individual and community wellness. Extensive research exists on mental healthcare and how it shapes health and wellness across societies. The thematic areas of perceived barriers to mental healthcare across ethnic minority groups apply to the proposed research. Perceived barriers to mental health define the ability of individuals and communities to access high-quality mental healthcare. These barriers are cross-sectional, ranging from personal factors to societal and system-level factors. Regardless of the form, highlighted barriers to mental healthcare underline the low consumption of mental healthcare resources across ethnic minority groups and have been implicated in the poor mental health of ethnic minority groups.

The proposed research study will significantly borrow from the literature on the perceived barriers to mental healthcare. It will interrogate the participant’s perception of mental health illnesses as well as the perceived barriers to mental healthcare to establish a nexus between the highlighted factors and the poor state of mental health and mental healthcare in the target population. By adopting the provisions on the highlighted barriers for mental healthcare, the research will be able to either prove or disapprove that the identified factors maintain applicability across all populations and thereby lay a groundwork for addressing measures and quality improvement in mental healthcare in the healthcare system in its entirety. The highlighted theme will, in this respect, inform the working hypotheses and help evaluate the research study (Frandsen et al., 2021).

References

Frandsen, T. F., Lindhardt, C. L., & Eriksen, M. B. (2021). Performance of conceptual framework elements for the retrieval of qualitative health literature: A case study. Journal of the Medical Library Association, 109(3). https://doi.org/10.5195/

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Every dissertation needs to have a theoretical foundation and/or a conceptual framework discussion in the literature review section. The theoretical framework will be the lens (perspective) through which you evaluate your research problem and research questions. While a theoretical framework is typically required for quantitative studies, a conceptual framework can be used in qualitative studies. Yet, both theoretical and conceptual frameworks can be used for either quantitative or qualitative studies, depending on the theorist.

Building the Foundation – Defining the Problem Statement and Theoretical Framework

You may find it helpful to review some completed dissertations, as you did in Week 6, to gain thoughts and ideas.

Write a substantiated 250- to 300-word response to the following:

State your updated problem statement.
State a theory and/or concept that is applicable to your research and explain how that theory or concept would frame your research.