The researchers are conducting a new study that considers the perspective of both mental health service users and professionals regarding the disclosure of domestic violence. They are trying to understand why the service users are not able to talk and why the professionals are unable to ask in order to try to find solutions for one of the major public health issues.
In their research they used a purposive snow ball sampling to see the reasons from professional and service user perspective. They kept recruiting cases until they reached their saturation by having 18 service users and 20 professionals from different ethnicity, age groups, diagnosis and experience. They also used a thick description technique in order to collect more information by audio taping deep interviews that lasted for 30 minutes to an hour. The researchers afterwards succeeded to analyze the data collected and to representing them and an easy visual diagrams that could be easily read and understood. They were careful in every step and did not pass to any further steps until they reached their saturation.
In my opinion, I think that on one hand, the researchers created a good study that deepened our understanding about the barriers to disclosure of domestic violence from a service user and professional point of view. They tried to create a clear image about the fears and the problems that both the service users and the professionals face in order to create a harmonious relationship between them to close the gaps and open up to solve the problem.
On the other hand , I think that there were some choices that they made that might have interfered with the clarity of the results. For instance, the money that was given to the users for their time and expenses might be a source of attraction. As The people might just participate for the sake of the money. I think it was going to be better if we used the "need to talk" as the only a motive.
