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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Leonard A. Jason and David S. Glenwick Klappentext A prevailing paradigm in social research and community-based interventions involves examining individual problems within various contexts -from the interpersonal to the community at large. Yet the research methodologies used to support these interventions typically lack the ability to consider data from this multilevel, systemic perspective. This book presents a range of innovative research methodologies that address this basic. Zusammenfassung Methodological Approaches to Community-Based Research offers innovative research tools that are most effective for understanding social problems in general and change in complex person-environment systems at the community level. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contributors Foreword Raymond P. Lorion Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Introduction: An Overview of Methodological Innovations in Community Research Leonard A. Jason and David S. GlenwickPart I: Pluralism and Mixed Methods in Community Research Chapter 2: Philosophical Foundations of Mixed Methods Research: Implications for Research Practice Jacob Kraemer Tebes Chapter 3: Methodological Pluralism: Implications for Consumers and Producers of Research Chris Barker and Nancy Pistrang Chapter 4: Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches: An Example of Mixed Methods Research Rebecca Campbell, Katie A. Gregory, Debra Patterson, and Deborah BybeePart II: Methods Involving Grouping of Data Chapter 5: Clustering and Its Applications in Community Research Allison B. Dymnicki and David B. Henry Chapter 6: The Person-Oriented Approach and Community Research G. Anne Bogat, Nicole Zarrrett, Stephen C. Peck, and Alexander von Eye Chapter 7: Meta-Analysis in Community-Oriented Research Joseph A. Durlak and Molly PachanPart III: Methods Involving Change Over Time Chapter 8: Time-Series Analysis in Community-Oriented Research Bettina B. Hoeppner and Rae Jean Proeschold-Bell Chapter 9: Survival Analysis in Prevention and Intervention Programs Christian M. ConnellPart IV: Methods Involving Contextual Factors Chapter 10: Multilevel Modeling: Method and Application for Community-Based Research Nathan R. Todd, Nicole E. Allen, and Shabnam Javdani Chapter 11: Epidemiologic Approaches to Community-Based Research Leonard A. Jason, Nicole Porter, and Alfred Rademaker Chapter 12: Applying Geographic Information Systems to Community Research Cory M. Morton, N. Andrew Peterson, Paul W. Speer, Robert J. Reid, and Joseph Hughey Chapter 13: Economic Cost Analysis for Community-Based Interventions Anthony T. Lo Sasso and Leonard A. Jason Afterword James G. Kelly Index About the Editors ...
