Pass 4- Plan out a research

Why did I chose to do a questionnaire?
During my studies of health and social care I have looked at the impact on people's health and attitudes on the correct health choices. I have seen how public health promote healthy lifestyles and help the population to make the correct health choices to better their own lives. On the other hand, there is a down side as even though public health promotes healthy lifestyles, millions if pounds are wasted as things like diabetes, obesity and heart related illnesses are increasing Daily. This shows that not everyone in the population are choosing to live healthy lifestyles, they are choosing to live unhealthy and damaging their bodies (which may be without them knowing). The research that I will be caring out as a group is to see if people do know about their own living standards and if they are generally healthy. This will then give me a brief understanding if people are choosing to ignore the information that it is provided.

In my questionnaire, I am aiming to find out what people think a healthy lifestyle is and if they personally think that they are healthy. This will the help me to get a range of statistics to see if people are prone to unhealthy lifestyles. I am choosing patio give my questionnaire to late teens in a sixth form college that I attend.

I am going to give the questionnaire to a group of thirty students with different ages, sexual orientations, gender, religious beliefs and values. I have discussed with the group that it is crucial for them to answer honestly. To do this I have discussed with the group that the questionnaire is anonymous to prevent any risk of discrimination and exploitation.

Choosing to carry out my research on the teens was because I knew that the older students would have a better understanding of living healthy and the teachers would also. The younger students may not have a good understanding of living a ‘healthy’ life and they may also think that they are generally healthy. This way I can identify what can be done to promote public health and how it could be carried out.

By doing this, it will identify some miss-conceptions in promoting public health and health and social care.