Research Methods For Nurses And The Caring Professions 2/E
1st Edition
Published on 1. May 1998
216 pages
978-0-335-23044-0 (ISBN)
Description
This book, now substantially revised in its second edition, is about the appreciation, evaluation and conduct of social research. Aimed at nurses, social workers, community workers and others in the caring professions, the book is particularly focused on research which evaluates and contributes to professional practice. The authors have provided many short, practical exercises in the text, and the examples are drawn mostly from projects carried out by one or two people rather than large research teams.
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Pamela Abbott | Roger Sapsford
Research Methods For Nurses And The Caring Professions 2/E
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05/1998
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Content
- Front cover
- Half title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Series editor's preface
- Acknowledgements
- Section 1 Introduction
- Chapter 1 Finding out and making sense
- Observation
- Asking questions
- Controlled trials
- Research ethics and Research Ethics Committees
- The research imagination
- Summary
- Further reading
- Section 2 Assessing research
- Chapter 2 Reading research reports
- The structure of research reports
- Assessing research reports
- Ethical and political questions
- Summary
- Chapter 3 Reading open interview research
- The research paper: Abbott and Sapsford (1987b)
- Discussion
- Summary: points for evaluation
- Further reading
- Chapter 4 Reading observation research
- Research paper 1: Kirkham (1983)
- Research paper 2: Cayne (1995)
- Research paper 3: James (1984)
- Summary: points for evaluation
- Further reading
- Chapter 5 Reading about controlled trials
- Research paper 1: Gordon (1986)
- Research paper 2: Doll and Hill (1954)
- Summary: points for evaluation
- Further reading
- Chapter 6 Reading survey research
- Research paper 1: Abbott (1997)
- Research paper 2: Abbott and Sapsford (1993)
- Discussion
- Summary: points for evaluation
- Further reading
- Chapter 7 Reading secondary sources
- Using secondary sources
- Research paper: Abbott and Tyler (1995)
- Strandardization and comparison
- Summary points for evaluation
- Further reading
- Section 3 Doing research
- Chapter 8 Using secondary sources
- Using libraries-review of literature
- Finding statistics
- Population and vital statistics
- Health and the National Health Service
- Social services statistics
- Problems with published statistics
- 'Qualitative' sources
- Summary
- Further reading
- Chapter 9 Survey research: design and sampling
- Doing the research
- Selecting responmdents
- Random sampling
- Cluster sampling
- Quota sampling
- Devising the questions
- Measuring attitudes
- Anticipating problems
- Non-response
- Reactivity
- Alternative explanations
- Summary
- Further reading
- Chapter 10 Experimental practice
- Uncontrolled trials
- Towards the controlled trial
- Single-case experimental designs
- Quasi-experimental logic
- Summary
- Further reading
- Answer to Exercise 32
- Chapter 11 Open interviewing
- Life-history interviews and comparartive interviewing
- The nature of the data
- Doing the interviews
- Selecting informants
- Gaining access
- Summary
- Further reading
- Answer to Exercise
- Chapter 12 Analysing text
- Qualitative description
- Case analysis
- Content analysis
- Meta-analysis
- Ideology and discourse
- Summary
- Further reading
- Specimen answer to Exercise 35
- Chapter 13 Participant observation
- Covert participant observation
- Overt observation
- Observation in the workplace
- Summary
- Further reading
- Section 4 In conclusion
- Chapter 14 Writing up
- Formal reports: quantitative research
- Formal reports: qualitative research
- Other modes of presentation
- Summary
- Further reading
- Chapter 15 In conclusion: research into practice
- Research-based practice
- Evaluating practice
- The reflective researcher
- Research and theory
- In conclusion
- Summary
- Further reading
- Glossary
- References
- Author index
- Subject index
- Back cover
