Application
of SWOT Analysis to Explore
Impressions
of Researchers involved in an
Integrative
Multidisciplinary Health and Wellbeing
Study
Summary:
Within this article, the authors discussed the application of SWOT
analysis in the fields of health and wellbeing. The timeline for this study
takes place during 2013 and the first quarter of 2014. Throughout this piece E.
H. Ryke et. al. (2015) described the successfulness of SWOT analysis for a
qualitative data collection technique.
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The introductory paragraph
outlined the basis for the study and expounded on the background of the
location under examination, that being Bekkerdal, South Africa. Researchers
chose this location due to “the rapid, uncontrolled, and unplanned growth of
the informal settlement.” Also discussed in this section is the use of SWOT in
analyzing the impressions of the researchers involved in an Integrative
Multidisciplinary study. The authors decided to observe the impressions of the
researchers against the use of an Integrative Multidisciplinary study, to see
if this approach was appropriate.
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The second section
discussed the Integrative Multidisciplinary study and the purpose for using it.
For this study authors took the researchers out of their familiar research
backgrounds. The goal of this was to have the researchers apply their depth of
knowledge in their fields to make creative and new solutions for this research.
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Discussed in the next
section is the overarching research method and design utilized for this study.
The researchers used a qualitative interpretive-descriptive research design to
best approach the topic of health and wellbeing.
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The last section concluded
the study with a review of the SWOT analysis. E. H. Ryke et. al. stated, “One
can carry out a SWOT analysis for a product, a place, an industry, a person or
a group of persons.” The authors stated that SWOT can be successfully used in a
multitude of different disciplines and studies.
Critique:
This study delivers an informative review of SWOT analysis within
multiple disciples of research. While this method does prove useful to this
test conducted by these authors, one concern that was presented within the
paper was the time limitation for the researchers to complete this study.
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Could you go into a bit more detail on what E.H. Ryke et. al (2015) delineates as an "Integrative Multidisciplinary study" and how it applies to SWOT analysis? Also, in what ways did the authors state that, "SWOT [could] be successfully used in multitude of different disciplines and studies." It is interesting that they are recommending this analysis... shows further success of the method?
ReplyDeleteOne of the key reasons the researchers used SWOT, was to categorize the data that was collected used for this study. The researchers came from 10 different backgrounds using their specific skill sets and fields of study.
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