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This is a critical thinking exercise and there is an article attached you have to answer the following questions according to the article:

1. Was the research tradition for the qualitative study identified? If none was identified, can one be inferred?
2. Is the research question congruent with a qualitative approach and with the specific research tradition? Are the data sources and research methods congruent with the research tradition?
3. How well was the research design described? Are design decisions explained and justified? Does it appear that the design emerged during data collection, allowing researchers to capitalize on early information?
4. Did the design lend itself to a thorough, in-depth examination of the focal phenomenon? Was there evidence of reflexivity? What design elements might have strengthened the study (e.g., a longitudinal perspective rather than a cross-sectional one)?
5. Was the study undertaken with an ideological perspective? If so, is there evidence that ideological goals were achieved? (e.g., Was there full collaboration between researchers and participants? Did the research have the power to be transformative?)

Also consider the following targeted questions:

1. Was this study cross-sectional or longitudinal?
2. Could this study have been undertaken as an ethnography? A phenomenological inquiry?
3. If the results of this study are trustworthy, what are some of the uses to which the findings might be put in clinical practice?