Which of the following is a qualitative study?

Question

A. A medical sociologist wants to see whether hospitals in inner cities (which are more likely to serve people living in poverty) have access to less funding than hospitals in expensive suburbs (which are more likely to serve wealthy individuals) and if this funding difference correlates with greater fatalities.
B. A critical sociologist believes that the stress of racism in everyday life likely increases susceptibility to hypertension. In order to conduct this study, he compares the rate of hypertension for Black men to the rate of hypertension for White men.
C. A medical sociologist wants to know whether the conditions of prison effect later health outcomes. To do this, he gets the medical records of a random sample of recently released prisoners and a random sample of people who have never been incarcerated and compares their rates of heart disease.
D. A medical sociologist is trying to determine whether a country has entered the post-transition phase of the epidemiological transition and charts the trends for acute and chronic disease deaths for the past 100 years.
E. Because nurses spend so much time with patients, a critical sociologist wants to know whether doctors value their input on patient treatment plans or feel challenged when nurses try to give their input.

Answer 1

Answer: E