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List of contents
1. Scientific Method and Its Application to Chaplaincy; 2. Research Designs and Making Causal Inferences from Health Care Studies; 3. Fundamentals of Measurement in Health Care Research; 4. Operational Definitions in Research on Religion and Health; 5. Independent, Dependent, and Other Variables in Healthcare and Chaplaincy Research; 6. Measures of Central Tendency in Chaplaincy, Health Care, and Related Research; 7. Measures of Variability in Chaplaincy, Health Care, and Related Research 8. Studying Associations in Health Care Research 9. The t-test: An Influential Inferential Tool in Chaplaincy and Other Healthcare Research; 10. Threats to the Internal Validity of Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Research in Healthcare
About the author
Kevin J. Flannelly has over 150 peer-reviewed publications, including studies in various areas of psychology and articles about chaplaincy, clergy, research methods, and the association of religion with physical and mental health. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy from 2008 through 2017.
Laura T. Flannelly has published articles on nursing, chaplaincy, and research methodology. She was an Associate Professor of Nursing at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, USA, where she taught psychiatric nursing in the graduate and undergraduate nursing programs.
Katherine R. B. Jankowski has co-authored articles in the Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy, the Journal of Adult Development, and the Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Science. Her research focuses on spirituality and adult development. She is an Adjunct Professor at Iona College, New Rochelle, USA.
Summary
This book helps students to realize the methods and results of research articles and to interpret these results; and allows them to discuss their research topics and findings. It gives them the expertise to conduct their own research projects. The chapters in this book were originally published as articles in the Journal of Health Care Chapla
