Research Methods for Nurses and the Caring Professions
Published on 1. July 1992
Book
Hardback
160 pages
978-0-335-09621-3 (ISBN)
Description
This text, aimed at nurses, social workers, community workers and others in the caring professions, is about the appreciation, evaluation and conduct of social research. It concentrates on relatively small-scale studies which can be carried out by one or two people.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Milton Keynes
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-335-09621-3 (9780335096213)
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Pamela Abbott | Roger Sapsford
Research Methods for Nurses and the Caring Professions
Book
05/1998
2nd Edition
Open University Press
€81.90
Article is exhausted; no reprint
Content
Part 1: Introduction; finding out and making sense. Part 2: assessing research; reading research reports; reading open interviewing research; reading observation research; reading about controlled trials; reading survey research; reading secondary-source research. Part 3: doing research; using secondary sources; survey research - design and sampling; experimental practice; open interviewing; analyzing text; participant observation and self-evaluation; evaluation of single cases. Part 4: in conclusion; writing up; in conclusion.