Week 2, Discussion 1: Research Design You have been approached by a pharmaceutical company that has developed a new drug that is supposed to be effective in the treatment of schizophrenia. Before mass producing the drug they want to be sure that it is more effective than the drug they are currently producing. They have hired you to design a research study to determine the effectiveness of the new drug compared with the old one.

Discuss what research you would use for this study & why. Be sure to include a brief overview of the study & how you would determine the effectiveness of one drug over the other.

In order to conduct a research study on a new drug that was developed to be effective towards the treatment of Schizophrenia, I would choose the experimental research method. The...