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Understanding Nursing and Healthcare Research

by Patricia Cronin, Michael Coughlan and Valerie Smith

Student Resources

  1. What is research?
  2. The research process at a glance
  3. What are research problems, questions, hypotheses, aims and objectives?
  4. Searching and reviewing the literature
  5. Getting to grips with approaches to research designs
  6. Understanding sampling and sampling size
  7. Ethical and legal issues in research
  8. Rigour in research
  9. Data collection in research
  10. Gaining insight into data analysis
  11. How is research disseminated and implemented?
  12. Critically evaluating research studies
  • Flashcard Glossary
  • Critical Appraisal Tool

Getting to grips with approaches to research designs

Quiz

 

MCQ's for Chapter 5

 

Useful Web Links

www.socialresearchmethods.net

Journal Articles

Coenen, M., Basedow-Rajwich, B., König, N., Kesselring, J., Cieza, A. (2011) Functioning and disability in multiple sclerosis from the patient perspective. Chronic Illness. 7(4): 291–310.

Draucker, C.B., Martsolf, D.S., Ross, R., Rusk, T.B. (2007) Theoretical sampling and category development in Grounded Theory. Qualitative Health Research. 17(8): 1137–48.

Norlyk, A., Harder, I. (2010) What makes a phenomenological study phenomenological? An analysis of peer-reviewed empirical nursing studies. Qualitative Health Research. 20(3): 420–31.

 

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