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Research methods for nurses and the caring professions / Pamela Abbott and Roger Sapsford.
LIBRA RT81.5 .S26 1998
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Abbott, Pamela.
- Series:
- Social sciences for nurses and the caring professions.
- Social sciences for nurses and the caring professions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nursing--Research--Methodology.
- Nursing.
- Social service--Research--Methodology.
- Social service.
- Nursing--Research--Evaluation.
- Social service--Research--Evaluation.
- Nursing Research--methods.
- Social Sciences--methods.
- Research Design.
- Social service--Research.
- Nursing--Research.
- Medical Subjects:
- Nursing Research--methods.
- Social Sciences--methods.
- Research Design.
- Physical Description:
- x, 200 pages ; 25 cm.
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Buckingham ; Philadelphia : Open University Press, [1998]
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Finding out and making sense 3
- Observation 6
- Asking questions 10
- Controlled trials 14
- Research ethics and Research Ethics Committees 17
- The research imagination 20
- Section 2 Assessing research 25
- Chapter 2 Reading research reports 27
- The structure of research reports 28
- Assessing research reports 29
- Ethical and political questions 31
- Chapter 3 Reading open interview research 33
- The research paper: Abbott and Sapsford (1987b) 33
- Summary: points for evaluation 41
- Chapter 4 Reading observation research 44
- Research paper 1 Kirkham (1983) 44
- Research paper 2 Cayne (1995) 46
- Research paper 3 James (1984) 48
- Summary: points for evaluation 50
- Chapter 5 Reading about controlled trials 53
- Research paper 1 Gordon (1986) 54
- Research paper 2 Doll and Hill (1954) 56
- Summary: points for evaluation 61
- Chapter 6 Reading survey research 63
- Research paper 1 Abbott (1997) 64
- Research paper 2 Abbott and Sapsford (1993) 67
- Summary: points for evaluation 71
- Chapter 7 Reading secondary sources 73
- Using secondary sources 73
- Research paper: Abbott and Tyler (1995) 75
- Standardization and comparison 78
- Summary: points for evaluation 80
- Section 3 Doing research 83
- Chapter 8 Using secondary sources 85
- Using libraries - review of literature 85
- Finding statistics 87
- Population and vital statistics 88
- Health and the National Health Service 88
- Social services statistics 89
- Problems with published statistics 90
- 'Qualitative' sources 91
- Chapter 9 Survey research: design and sampling 94
- Selecting respondents 96
- Random sampling 97
- Cluster sampling 98
- Quota sampling 99
- Devising the questions 100
- Measuring attitudes 101
- Anticipating problems 103
- Non-response 103
- Reactivity 104
- Alternative explanations 104
- Doing the research 105
- Chapter 10 Experimental practice 109
- Uncontrolled trials 109
- Towards the controlled trial 111
- Single-case experimental designs 114
- Quasi-experimental logic 117
- Chapter 11 Open interviewing 120
- Life-history interviews and comparative interviewing 121
- The nature of the data 123
- Doing the interviews 124
- Selecting informants 127
- Gaining access 127
- Chapter 12 Analysing text 132
- Qualitative description 133
- Case analysis 134
- Content analysis 135
- Meta-analysis 137
- Ideology and discourse 139
- Specimen answer to Exercise 35 143
- Chapter 13 Participant observation 145
- Covert participant observation 145
- Overt observation 148
- Observation in the workplace 150
- Chapter 14 Writing up 157
- Formal reports: quantitative research 158
- Formal reports: qualitative research 160
- Other modes of presentation 161
- Chapter 15 In conclusion: research into practice 164
- Research-based practice 165
- Evaluating practice 167
- The reflective researcher 173
- Research and theory 176.
- Notes:
- Rev. ed. of: Research methods for nurses and the caring professions / Roger Sapsford. 1st ed. 1992.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [189]-195) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0335196985
- 0335196977
- OCLC:
- 37806183
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