I love your honesty and can relate to all of this!
I have to work in small chunks, with rewards, and complete silence. I maximise on those moments when the brain is in gear.... When not in the zone, get out, give up and start afresh next day.

I work in General Practice as a clinician. I would urge you to make an appointment asap get a bit of support through this difficult time. You need to stay well.

Is Action Research a style/'way' of carrying out research, rather than a methodology in its own right?

That sounds stressful. Seems obvious you need a better supervisor. This is about you, your health and your future: it is worth finding someone supportive. Time off and a few months or medication may help.

Can you change your research? I'm doing a Prof Doc. and was able to switch focus and research (twice) initially. Not sure if it's as easy in PhD.

Hang in there.

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Thanks v much for your responses.

I am identifying a focus group of local health professionals who would be prepared to provide more detailed qualitative information through a survey, in order to gain extended responses about my topic.

I always use Survey Monkey (https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk) but it is limited in terms of number of questions, and I feel it lacks the credibility for doctoral level work somewhat....

What are your thoughts?

Thanks!! :-)

Yes this helps thank you!!!
I was thinking semi-struc. interviews, need to look into action research more though....
Have web analytics covered. Is yours published anywhere?

Thanks so much for this, very helpful.

Yes the online Facebook resource is already set up and very successful, it has 9000 followers and 1000s hits/day. Facebook can provide hits/stats. Many of the page followers may just be happy clickers though (!) so I think I'll need to evaluate using a small group of legitimate Health Professionals as you say. I like your idea of mixed methodology combining a large analysis of data/readership, and then more focused smaller feedback. I used Survey Monkey before for previous work... but I am not sure if that is considered an valid academic tool.

Appreciate your help and any more thoughts warmly rec'd...

As part of my Masters research I'm hoping to prove a Facebook Page is an effective learning tool for Health Professionals. I want to prove its educational function (knowledge bites/regular learning posts) can enhance clinical learning.
Difficult to prove?? How to evaluate????? Research methodology? I am really stuck :-/
THANKS

Hello. As part of my Masters I am looking at Social Media as an effective learning tool for Health Professional in General Practice. I want to prove that a Facebook resource I've created has an educational function which can enhance clinical learning. I'd appreciate any help with evaluating/measuring efficacy of such a resource. Any thoughts re. research methodology etc? THANKS

Hello. As part of my Masters I am looking at "Social Media" as an effective learning tool for Health Professional in General Practice. I want to prove that a Facebook resource I've created has an educational function which can enhance clinical learning.
I am really struggling to work out how to tackle this, the research methodology and how to measure it.
Any advice, no matter how brief, would be very warmly received!