In this blog I will talk to you about all primary research that I have done for any assignments.
The assignment that I done the most primary research for was my Healthy Body, Healthy Mind project, the primary research I conducted was surveys.
The people I surveyed were students at midkent college between the ages of 16-21, I obviously surveyed them about smoking as that was the topic of my Healthy Body Healthy Mind video. I wanted to survey these people about smoking as I wanted to get an idea of some of their reasons for smoking and have a look at their expenditures when it comes to smoking. I surveyed these people at around May time so for all I know some of the results in my surveys could have changed since then! As the people I surveyed were students I obviously surveyed them whilst in college. I surveyed them by Printing off a certain number of copies of my survey and passing them around for people to fill them in.
The questions I asked my audience were:
- What Gender are you? I asked this as I feel that it is important as it’s nice to know what gender your audience is.
- How old are you? I asked this because if you know what age your audience is then you can get an idea of how bad it can affect the audience as in certain ages smoking is worse.
- How long have you smoked? I asked this because I felt that I felt that if you know how long someone has been smoking for then you can tell if it will be easier to help them as if they have been smoking for a long time then it will be much harder to help them.
- Are you aware of the effects of smoking on your body? I asked this as i believe that you need to know if a smoker knows what they are doing to their body, if they know what they are doing then it would make your task a lot easier to help them but if they didn’t then you could immediately get them the help they need.
- Is there any particular reason you smoke? If so why? I asked this because I feel it is good to know why they smoke, some people tend to start due to peer pressure so it’s good to know whether they are smoking on their own will or because their “mates” do it.
- Have you ever tried quitting? I asked this question because I feel that if they have tried quitting then you can ask them why they stopped trying and you can help them go right where they went wrong when trying to quit.
- Are you aware of the resources available to you regarding quitting? I asked this because if they don’t know the resources then you can give them resources immediately e.g. Numbers for NHS help lines, quit kits etc.
- How much do you spend on cigarettes per week? I asked this question because I feel if you have an idea of how much they spend per week you can see how much they are spending a year and you could try to convince them that they could be spending that money every year on something else, something much better.
Conducting these surveys gave me a sense of knowlodge in that I could potentially help people who require it by giving them the necessary information.
