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Bridge the gap between research and practice with DePoy and Gitlin's Introduction to Research: Understanding and Applying Multiple Strategies, 4 th Edition . This completely updated, user-friendly text helps you better understand not only the research process, but also research designs and their applications to the real world of clinical practice. Covering multiple research strategies (including both qualitative and quantitative research), it gives you a balanced approach to various research traditions, addressing the key issues that are emerging in today's health care environment.
List of contents
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 designs
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 the study
22. Sharing research knowledge during and after the study
Part V: Improving practice through inquiry
23. Case study designs
24. Reciprocal role of research & practice
25. Stories from the field
Appendix: Informed consent documents
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