Handbook of Research Methods in Health
Published on 1. June 2005
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Description
"an ideal set text" Angela Scriven, Course Leader, Brunel University
- Which research method should I use to evaluate services?
- How do I design a questionnaire?
- How do I conduct a systematic review of research?
This handbook helps researchers to plan, carry out, and analyse health research, and evaluate the quality of research studies. The book takes a multidisciplinary approach to enable researchers from different disciplines to work side-by-side in the investigation of population health, the evaluation of health care, and in health care delivery.
Handbook of Health Research Methods is an essential tool for researchers and postgraduate students taking masters courses, or undertaking doctoral programmes, in health services evaluation, health sciences, health management, public health, nursing, sociology, socio-biology, medicine and epidemiology. However, the book also appeals to health professionals who wish to broaden their knowledge of research methods in order to make effective policy and practice decisions.
Contributors: Joy Adamson, Geraldine Barrett, Jane P. Biddulph, Ann Bowling, Sara Brookes, Jackie Brown, Simon Carter, Michel P. Coleman, Paul Cullinan, George Davey Smith, Paul Dieppe, Jenny Donovan, Craig Duncan, Shah Ebrahim, Vikki Entwistle, Clare Harries, Lesley Henderson, Kelvyn Jones, Olga Kostopoulou, Sarah J. Lewis, Richard Martin, Martin McKee, Graham Moon, Ellen Nolte, Alan O'Rourke, Ann Oakley, Tim Peters, Tina Ramkalawan, Caroline Sanders, Mary Shaw, Andrew Steptoe, Jonathan Sterne, Anne Stiggelbout, S.V. Subramanian, Kate Tilling, Liz Twigg, Suzanne Wait.
- Which research method should I use to evaluate services?
- How do I design a questionnaire?
- How do I conduct a systematic review of research?
This handbook helps researchers to plan, carry out, and analyse health research, and evaluate the quality of research studies. The book takes a multidisciplinary approach to enable researchers from different disciplines to work side-by-side in the investigation of population health, the evaluation of health care, and in health care delivery.
Handbook of Health Research Methods is an essential tool for researchers and postgraduate students taking masters courses, or undertaking doctoral programmes, in health services evaluation, health sciences, health management, public health, nursing, sociology, socio-biology, medicine and epidemiology. However, the book also appeals to health professionals who wish to broaden their knowledge of research methods in order to make effective policy and practice decisions.
Contributors: Joy Adamson, Geraldine Barrett, Jane P. Biddulph, Ann Bowling, Sara Brookes, Jackie Brown, Simon Carter, Michel P. Coleman, Paul Cullinan, George Davey Smith, Paul Dieppe, Jenny Donovan, Craig Duncan, Shah Ebrahim, Vikki Entwistle, Clare Harries, Lesley Henderson, Kelvyn Jones, Olga Kostopoulou, Sarah J. Lewis, Richard Martin, Martin McKee, Graham Moon, Ellen Nolte, Alan O'Rourke, Ann Oakley, Tim Peters, Tina Ramkalawan, Caroline Sanders, Mary Shaw, Andrew Steptoe, Jonathan Sterne, Anne Stiggelbout, S.V. Subramanian, Kate Tilling, Liz Twigg, Suzanne Wait.
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Ann Bowling is a social scientist and is Professor of Health Services Research in the Department of Primary Care and Population Sciences at University College London, and has a part secondment to the MRC Health Services Research Collaboration, University of Bristol. She is the author of Research Methods in Health (2002), now in its second edition and published by Open University Press.
Shah Ebrahim is an epidemiologist with a clinical background in Geriatric Medicine and holds a Professorship in Epidemiology of Ageing in the Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol and is honorary professor of epidemiology at University College London. He is coordinating editor of the Cochrane Heart Group and co-editor of the International Journal of Epidemiology. He is the author of books on geriatric medicine, stroke and epidemiology of ageing.
Shah Ebrahim is an epidemiologist with a clinical background in Geriatric Medicine and holds a Professorship in Epidemiology of Ageing in the Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol and is honorary professor of epidemiology at University College London. He is coordinating editor of the Cochrane Heart Group and co-editor of the International Journal of Epidemiology. He is the author of books on geriatric medicine, stroke and epidemiology of ageing.
Content
Section 1: Introduction
1. Introduction: research on health and health care
2. Describing and evaluating health systems
Section 2: Multidisciplinary methods of investigation
3. Evidence based health care: systematic reviews
4. Critical appraisal
5. Features and designs of randomised and non-randomised controlled trials and non-randomised experimental designs
6. Epidemiological study designs in health care research and evaluation
7. Finding and using secondary data on the health and health care of populations
8. Quantitative social science: The survey
9. Approaches to qualitative data collection in social science
10. Combined qualitative and quantitative designs
11. Design and analysis of social intervention studies in health research
12. Area-based studies and the evaluation of multilevel influences on health outcomes
13. Mathematical models in health care
14. Economic evaluation of health care
Section 3: Multidisciplinary research measurement
15. Psychological approaches to measuring and modelling clinical decision making
16. Approaches to measuring patients' decision making
17. Techniques of questionnaire design
18. Measuring health outcomes from the patient's perspective
19. Genetics, health and population genetics research
20. Tools of psychosocial biology and health care research
Section 4: Data analysis
21. Key issues in the statistical analysis of quantitative data in research on health and health services
22. Key issues in the analysis of qualitative data on health services research
Section 5. Essential issues to consider when conducting research
23. Involving service users in health services research
24. Ethical and political issues in the conduct of research
25. Training for research
General glossary
General further reading
Index
1. Introduction: research on health and health care
2. Describing and evaluating health systems
Section 2: Multidisciplinary methods of investigation
3. Evidence based health care: systematic reviews
4. Critical appraisal
5. Features and designs of randomised and non-randomised controlled trials and non-randomised experimental designs
6. Epidemiological study designs in health care research and evaluation
7. Finding and using secondary data on the health and health care of populations
8. Quantitative social science: The survey
9. Approaches to qualitative data collection in social science
10. Combined qualitative and quantitative designs
11. Design and analysis of social intervention studies in health research
12. Area-based studies and the evaluation of multilevel influences on health outcomes
13. Mathematical models in health care
14. Economic evaluation of health care
Section 3: Multidisciplinary research measurement
15. Psychological approaches to measuring and modelling clinical decision making
16. Approaches to measuring patients' decision making
17. Techniques of questionnaire design
18. Measuring health outcomes from the patient's perspective
19. Genetics, health and population genetics research
20. Tools of psychosocial biology and health care research
Section 4: Data analysis
21. Key issues in the statistical analysis of quantitative data in research on health and health services
22. Key issues in the analysis of qualitative data on health services research
Section 5. Essential issues to consider when conducting research
23. Involving service users in health services research
24. Ethical and political issues in the conduct of research
25. Training for research
General glossary
General further reading
Index