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This assignment requires you to produce a 2000 word report analysing, presenting and discussing both the quantitative and qualitative data obtained from this study. The format of your report should follow the recommended structure and format described in the Section 9 online class space entitled, “Qualitative and Quantitative Data Analysis Practicum” and must include results of quantitative data analysis performed using relevant functions of Microsoft excel and qualitative data analysis using ‘thematic analysis’.

In order to do Assignment 3, students need to analyse the data sets in Excel. There is a help guide posted in your class space that assist you with the data analysis in Excel. Please refer to this guide as you work through the assignment. Your academic teacher will also go through how to analyse data in Excel:

1 Calculate the means and standard deviations of each of the six sets of data (i.e., pre-group depression, post-group depression, pre-group anxiety, post-group anxiety, pre-group stress, post-group stress);

2 Present the changes in the pre and post group depression, anxiety and stress mean scores side by side in a bar graph;

3 Present the changes in the number of people in the normal, mild, moderate, severe and extremely severe categories for pre and post group depression, anxiety and stress side by side in a bar graph;

The questions to consider for your report are:

1 Why did the researcher use this questionnaire (DASS) for this client group?

2 Has there been a similar level of change in each of the three subscale scores during the ‘Cool Parents’ group program?

3 What might be possible explanations for this observation?

4 What do you notice about the changes in the number of parents in the various categories (i.e., normal, mild, moderate etc) when calculated before and after the group for each of the three areas measured (i.e., depression, anxiety, stress)?

Do the two ways of organising the data (i.e., by determining the means of the subscales and arranging participants’ responses by level of severity) appear to suggest similar or different outcomes of the effectiveness of the group in reducing parents’ levels of depression, anxiety and depression? Why or why not might this be?