Quantitative Health Research
Issues And Methods
1st Edition
Published on 1. September 2013
441 pages
978-0-335-24574-1 (ISBN)
Description
This text, edited by a well respected team at TCD, addresses the need for a book covering the practicalities of doing quantitative research as part of professional practice, in a field where many texts either cover qualitative and quantitative research together or focus on qualitative methods.
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Elizabeth Curtis | Jonathan Drennan
Quantitative Health Research: Issues and Methods
From theory to practice
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08/2013
Open University Press
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Content
- Quantitative Health Research Issues and methods
- Quantitative Health ResearchIssues and methods
- Praise for this book
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- List of tables
- Introduction
- PART 1 Philosophy, theory, research problems and research questions
- 1 Philosophical basis for research
- 2 The importance and use of social theory inhealth care research
- 3 Identifying research priorities
- 4 Writing research questions and hypotheses
- PART 2 Ethical considerations
- 5 Ethical principles in health care research
- 6 Communicating with research ethics committees
- 7 Recruiting samples from vulnerable populations
- PART 3 Quantitative research designs
- 8 Designing and conducting quantitative research studies
- 9 Sampling issues in health care research
- 10 Planning and conducting surveys
- 11 Quasi-experimental and retrospective pretest designs for health care research
- 12 Audit in health care
- 13 Evaluation research
- PART 4 Measurement and datacollection
- 14 Using cognitive interviewing in healthcare research
- 15 Questionnaires and instruments for health care research
- 16 Issues and debates in validity and reliability
- PART 5 Analysing and presenting data
- 17 Understanding probability
- 18 Analysing data from small and large samples and non-normal and normaldistributions
- 19 Secondary data analysis
- 20 Presenting your research findings
- Index
- Advert
- Backcover
