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place. The case study has been a common research strategy in psychology, sociology, political science, business, social work, and planning.
The case study method is well-suited to this analysis because of its ability to answer the research problem appropriately. Case study was applied in this
study to get the detail description from the subject.
3.2 Data and Data Source
This analysis of language disorder in schizophrenia analyzes the utterances of schizophrenia patients as the data of the research. There are 5 five
hospitalized psychiatric patients suffering from paranoid schizophrenia took part as the data source in this analysis. The research was carried out in the District
Hospital of Simeulue in Simeulue district, Aceh province. As mentioned above, the data source of this analysis are five selected
hospitalized schizophrenia patients in Simeulue District Hospital. These patients consist of four men and one woman, which have determined randomly. Those
patients have diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. They are Mr. Sl, 48 years old, Mr. MC, 34 years old, Mr. Aj, 28 years old, Mr. JMY, 41 years old, and Ms.
Rs, 44 years old. This analysis only focused on schizophrenia paranoid patients because
patient with schizophrenia paranoid patients are more communicative that other patient with other subtypes of schizophrenia.
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3.3 Data Collecting Method
Data collection method for qualitative research usually involves direct interaction with individuals on a one to one basis andor direct interaction with
individuals in a group setting. Qualitative research data collection methods is need more time, therefore data is collected from a smaller sample. The benefit of the
qualitative research is that information is richer and has a deeper insight into the phenomenon under study.
Sugiyono 2009: 309 said that in qualitative research, there are some ways in collecting data; interview, observation, and documentary. The main methods
which used for collecting data in this analysis are: 1 interviews with those involved in the events, and 2 direct observation of the events or objects.
In writing this analysis, the data were collected from direct interview with five schizophrenia paranoid patients. As doctor suggestion in the first observation
on 4
th
February 2015 in Simeulue Distric Hospital, the Doctor suggested the Nurse to help the writer in interview with schizophrenia patients. It is because
schizophrenia patients will be less communicative to the stranger. Therefore, in this analysis the Nurse will be the writer assistant’s in collecting the data. The
Nurse helped the writer to communicate with the patient and asked some questions to encourage the patients to speak. The interview began by inviting the
patient to talk without interruption about ten minutes, after which a variety of questions were asked, ranging from the abstract to the concrete and the
interpersonal to the personal question Andreasen, 1979: 1317. Questions that
