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# Abstract  Chapter 9: Conclusion 1: Introduction to the Topic  Write about the issue about adolescent alcohol consumption, regulations, issues around parental engagement, and build an argument as to why this dissertation is important and what will it add to the knowledge base of what we know. Make sure you include the following:  The final chapter 1. What do we know about the topic of adolescent alcohol consumption  2. What do we know about the parental engagement and behavioural influences  3. What do we know about their relationships  in the thesis where context of the world and in the context of Asia/South Asia  4. What do  we shall discuss NOT know  5. What this dissertation will add  6. Provide a Sri Lankan context  Write about the Objectives and hypotheses of this dissertation  This chapter can wait until then end, but you will need to think about the OUTLINE  Chapter 2: Review of the Literature  You have a good outline for this chapter and it is coming along quite well.  2.1 Introduction  2.2 Adolescent behaviour in relation to alcohol  2.2.1 Adolescence and adolescent behavior  2.2.2 Adolescent behavior and alcohol  2.3 The importance of parental engagement and adolescence  2.4 Components of parental engagement  2.4.1 Communication  2.4.2 Monitoring  2.4.3 Controlling  2.5 Parental behaviour and alcohol  2.6 Peer and environmental influences  2.7 Critical review of research  Chapter 3: Methodological approach to the research  This chapter provides and overview of your approach to the research.  This chapter sets out  the "So What" factor arising rationale for your methodology (mixed-methods approach) and the relationship between your qualitative and quantitative studies.  You need to provide an overview and justification of the specific methods you have chosen (eg focus groups and a cross sectional survey) but do not go into detail about the mechanics of these.  You have good material  from your dissertation. proposal and the background papers that you did to start this chapter. What you need first is an OUTLINE.  Chapter 4: Focus group study: methods and results  4.1 Introduction  4.2 Implementation of the focus group method  4.2.1 Development of the interview guide  4.2.2 Selection of participants  4.2.3 Recruitment  4.2.4 Implementation of data collection  4.2.5 Preparation of data  4.2.6 Content analysis procedures  4.3 Results and discussion  4.3.1 Introduction  4.3.2 Category 1:  4.3.3 Category 2:  4.3.4 Category 3:  4.3 Conclusion    Chapter 5: Cross sectional survey: methods (where does overall survey design, the sampling, recruitment sections etc fit in here?)  4.1 Steps of Development of the Instrument: item selection  4.2 Validation of the Instrument:  4.2.1 Face Validation  4.2.2 Content Validation  4.2.3 Construct Validation and Confirmatory Factor Analysis  (You should append the results of the Confirmatory Factor Analysis as Figure below this section)  4.2.4 Description of the Data and steps of Data Cleaning  1. Write about how you will remove or what will you do to the outliers,  2. Write what you will do with the missing values  4.2.5 Description of the Statistical Modelling and Multivariate Data Analysis  Chapter 6: Results of cross sectional survey  6.1 Results of the Validation of the Instrument  6.2 Results an tables of the initial analysis  6.3Results of multivariate analysis  6.4 Description of results  Chapter 7: Discussion  Chapter 8: Conclusion