Health Intervention Research - Understanding Research Design and Methods

Designed to equip those doing research with the knowledge and tools they need to inform their methodological decisions when planning and conducting studies, this book describes both commonly used methods for health intervention research and outlines the theoretical reasoning underlying these different approaches.

List of contents

An Overview of Health Intervention Research
Validity in Intervention Research
Phases of Intervention Evaluation Research
Experimental Designs or Randomized Controlled Trials: Characteristic Features
Experimental Designs or Randomized Controlled Trials: Limitation
Advances in Intervention Evaluation Designs: Extentions of Experimental Designs
Advances in Intervention Evaluation Designs: Pragmatic and Preference Trials
Selection of Participants
Retention of Participants
Assignment of Participants to Study Groups
Implementation of the Intervention
Principles of Outcome Measurement and Analysis

About the author

Dr. Souraya Sidani is Professor and Canada Research Chair at the School of Nursing, Ryerson University, Ontario, Canada. Her program of research focuses on the design and evaluation of patient-centered health interventions. Her areas of expertise are in quantitative research methods, intervention design and evaluation, treatment preferences, patient-centered interventions, and measurement. She received funding, as principal or co-investigator, for over 100 studies, that focused on evaluating interventions and advanced practice roles, on examining patient preferences for treatments, and on refining research methods and measures for determining the clinical effectiveness of interventions.

Product details

• Authors: Souraya Sidani, Sidani Souraya, Souraya Sidani
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.11.2014
• EAN: 9781446256169
• ISBN: 978-1-4462-5616-9
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; MEDICAL / Clinical Medicine, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, MEDICAL / Internal Medicine, Clinical & internal medicine, Health systems & services, Health systems and services, Clinical and internal medicine