Introduction to Research : Understanding and Applying Multiple Strategies

Gitlin, Laura N., Depoy, Elizabeth

ISBN 10: 0323028535 / ISBN 13: 9780323028530

Editore: Elsevier - Health Sciences Division, 2005

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• Titolo: Introduction to Research : Understanding and Applying Multiple Strategies
• Editore: Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0323028535
• ISBN 13: 9780323028530
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Edizione: 3rd Edition.
• Condizione: Good

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Riassunto

This clearly written, easy-to-understand book demystifies the research process and provides a rational foundation from which to critique and understand research designs and applications in health care and human service settings. Divided into five parts - Introduction, Thinking Processes, Design Approaches, Action Processes, and Improving Practice Through Inquiry - it explores multiple research strategies, proposing that naturalistic and experimental-type research strategies have equal value and contribute in complementary and distinct ways to the science of practice. Content in this edition has been significantly expanded and updated to reflect changes in the field, specifically in areas of ethics, informed consent, practice efficacy, and proposal-writing.

• Key terms, chapter outlines, and exercise ideas in each chapter strengthen understanding of important concepts.
• Detailed discussions of qualitative and quantitative methodologies offer a unique, balanced focus and comprehensive coverage of research.
• Specific design strategies for experimental, naturalistic, and mixed method enable readers to compare, contrast, and integrate different designs.
• Understandable, down-to-earth writing style makes the information more accessible and relevant.

• 3 new chapters comprehensively address patient boundaries, sharing research knowledge, and practice efficacy.
• A new appendix provides informed consent documents for use in the practice setting.
• New and expanded content added to chapters reflects emerging practices and hot-button issues such as ethical considerations, practical considerations, new naturalistic inquiry designs, and more.
• More case examples interspersed throughout the text are identified with new magnifying-glass icons to alert readers to research dilemmas or potential problems they might encounter.

Contenuti

Part I. Introduction
1. Research as an important way of knowing
2. Essentials of research
Part II. Thinking processes
3. Philosophical foundations
4. Framing the problem
5. Developing a knowledge base through review of the literature
6. Theory in research
7. Formulating research questions and queries
8. Language and thinking processes
Part III. Design approaches
9. Experimental-type designs
10. Naturalistic inquiry
Part IV. Action processes
11. Setting the boundaries of a study
12. Protecting the boundaries
13. Boundary setting in experimental-type designs
14. Boundary setting in naturalistic designs
15. Collecting information
16. Measurement in experimental-type research
17. Gathering information in naturalistic inquiry
18. Preparing and organizing data
19. Statistical analysis for experimental-type research
20. Analysis in naturalistic inquiry
21. Sharing research knowledge before
22. Sharing research knowledge during and after
Part V. Improving practice through inquiry
23. Case study designs
24. Practice efficacy
25. Stories from the field
Appendix. Informed Consent Documents
Glossary