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Introduction to Research

Understanding and Applying Multiple Strategies

  • 6th Edition - October 23, 2019
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Elizabeth DePoy, Laura N. Gitlin
  • Language: English

Learn the latest healthcare and human service research methods! Introduction to Research: Understanding and Applying Multiple Strategies, 6th Edition helps bridge the gap between r… Read more

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Learn the latest healthcare and human service research methods! Introduction to Research: Understanding and Applying Multiple Strategies, 6th Edition helps bridge the gap between research and practice by giving you a solid foundation for critiquing your own work. This easy-to-read guide covers all the major research design strategies: qualitative, quantitative, naturalistic, experimental-type, and mixed method. Plus, the 6th edition has been updated to include contemporary references, an expanded discussion of big data, updated research methods, and more!

Key features

  • Comprehensive coverage of research designs helps you to further understand how to apply these methods to healthcare and human service settings
  • Detailed coverage of qualitative and quantitative methodologies offer a unique and balanced focus that makes this text more comprehensive than others in its field
  • Case examples provide real-life snapshots of what it is like to participate in different types of research processes, identify research dilemmas relevant to chapter subjects, and alert you to problems you might encounter

Readership

Occupational Therapy students; Doctor of Occupational Therapy (DOT); Master of Occupational Therapy (MOT); Physical Therapy (DPT) students

Table of contents

Part I: Introduction

1. Research as an Important Way of Knowing

2. Essentials of Research

3. Research Ethics

Part II: Thinking Processes

4. Philosophical Foundations

5. Framing the Problem

6. Developing a Knowledge Base Through Literature and Resources

7. Theory in Research

8. Formulating Research Questions and Queries

9. Language and Thinking Processes

Part III: Design Approaches

10. Experimental-Type Designs

11. Naturalistic Designs

12. Mixed Method Designs

Part IV: Action Processes

13. Setting the Boundaries of a Study

14. Boundary Setting in Experimental-Type Designs

15. Boundary Setting in Naturalistic Designs

16. Collecting Information

17. Collecting Data Through Measurement in Experimental-Type Research

18. Gathering Information in Naturalistic Inquiry

19. Preparing and Organizing Data

20. Statistical Analysis for Experimental-Type Designs

21. Analysis in Naturalistic Inquiry

22. Sharing Research Knowledge Before the Study

23. Sharing Research Knowledge During and After the Study

Part V: Improving Practice Through Inquiry

24. Reciprocal Role of Research and Practice

25. Stories from the Field

Product details

  • Edition: 6
  • Latest edition
  • Published: October 23, 2019
  • Language: English

About the authors

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Elizabeth DePoy

Professor Elizabeth DePoy, Interdisciplinary Disability Studies and Social Work; Cooperating Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Cooperating Faculty, School of Policy and International Affairs, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, USA.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Interdisciplinary Disability Studies and Social Work; Cooperating Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Cooperating Faculty, School of Policy and International Affairs, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, USA

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Laura N. Gitlin

Affiliations and expertise
Distinguished University Professor Dean, College of Nursing and Health Professions Drexel University Adjunct Professor, Johns Hopkins school of Nursing