RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Clinical and demographic characteristics define the target population, the large set of people in the world to which the results of the study will be generalized (e.g. all schizophrenics). The study population is the subset of the target population available for study (e.g. schizophrenics in the researcher’s town).

Detailed explanation-2: -What is Generalizability? Very simply, generalizability is a measure of how useful the results of a study are for a broader group of people or situations. If the results of a study are broadly applicable to many different types of people or situations, the study is said to have good generalizability.

Detailed explanation-3: -The target population is the entire population, or group, that a researcher is interested in researching and analysing. A sampling frame is then drawn from this target population.

Detailed explanation-4: -Defining the target population Generalizability is a characteristic of the relationship between results from a specific study sample and a specific target population, not a characteristic of a study alone.

Detailed explanation-5: -A population is the entire group that you want to draw conclusions about.