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Christian worldview pertains to the way Christians see the world, their relationship to God, and how they interpret interactions with their environment. In what way did you incorporate your Christian worldview into your work with the DPI Project? Support your position with evidence or scripture.
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Christian worldview guides individuals to reflect on the impacts of their actions and behaviors before they can execute them. They tend to cling to behaviors that are Biblically good and deviate from the bad ones as defined in Biblical terms (Melé & Fontrodona, 2017). According to Melé and Fontrodona (2017), Christian believers observe moral values in all that they do, particularly when their actions have an impact on people around them. An example of a situation where a Christian believer should apply the Christian Worldview is in quality improvement projects. The Christian worldview has an influence on the approaches that the primary investigator would use to collect, analyze, and disseminate data (Fuller, 2017; Rego et al., 2020). The purpose of this discussion is to describe how the primary investigator incorporates the Christian worldview into the work procedures accomplished in the DPI Project.
The primary investigator incorporated the Christian worldview into the DPI project by collecting data in a manner that is safe and in a manner that did not cause any harm to the participants. Data collection was primarily achieved using the Broset Violence Checklist (BVC) tool while the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) software was utilized in data analysis. According to Fuller (2017), the use of technology in research, especially to collect and analyze data, has raised ethical concerns across various professions. Participants are usually concerned about the privacy of confidentiality of their data that is normally collected and stored in these tools. Being a Christian believer, the primary investigator strived to maintain moral values throughout the data collection, storage, analysis, and dissemination processes (Melé & Fontrodona, 2017). By incorporating the Christian worldview, the primary investigator was able to demonstrate compassion, ethics, and professionalism thereby facilitating the realization of a common good.
The primary investigator incorporated a Christian worldview into the DPI project by designing the project in a manner that alleviated participants from suffering, thereby fulfilling God’s requirements. Achieving good pleasure as the main outcome of the research should be the goal of every investigator who is a Christian believer (Swihart et al., 2021). According to Fambro (2016), a person should evaluate the morality of his or her actions based on the impacts that those actions will have on the target audience. From this perspective, only those actions that cause pleasure to the target audience are considered moral while those that cause displeasure are considered immoral. As Stahl (2021) points out, a researcher with strong Christian beliefs endorses strong moral foundations when completing a study thereby facilitating the realization of positive outcomes. Similarly, the primary investigator endorsed strong moral foundations in the DPI project from the start to the end. The investigator established a positive end to the project right from the beginning with the goal of eliminating violence risk among adult psychiatric patients. A good pleasure that is characterized by a reduction in episodes of violence was the main outcome of the project.
In summary, the Christian worldview has an influence on the decisions and actions of the primary investigator during research. It encourages the investigator to do good and maintain moral standards throughout a study. In the DPI project, the primary investigator incorporated the Christian worldview by engaging in actions are behaviors that generated pleasure for the participants, thereby fulfilling God’s requirements.
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