Research Made Easy in Complementary & Alternative

Description

Clear and lively book aimed at students and practioners from a variety of healthcare backgrounds who want to gain a first foothold in understanding research. - By Mark Kane (2004) 215pages

This is a clear and lively book intended for students and practitioners from a variety of healthcare backgrounds who want to gain a first foothold in understanding research. It is a highly engaging and very visually attractive introduction to research which students and practitioners will use to gain confidence and to develop as far as initiating small practice based research projects. The book will outline how to get started, how to formulate useful and answerable research questions, a range of methodologies set in terms of their usefulness and limitations, strategies for seeing the project through and writing up the results. Pitfalls and pointers are highlighted along the way

Features:
-- Absolutely realistic and clear - a no-punches-
pulled introduction of the sort all students need
to start begin their understanding of "research"
-- Simple explanation of all key concepts
-- Clear guidance on how to formulate and initiate a
project
-- Summary of pros and cons of each research
methodology
-- Examples relating to each method
-- Checklists, summary boxes, warnings, tips
and illustrations in abundance!

Contents:

Part 1 Introduction

Introduction. General Design Issues. Reviewing the Literature. Research Ethics

Part 2 Strategies

Action research. Case Studies. Ethnography. Experiments and Quasi Experiments. Surveys. Systematic Reviews

Part 3 Collecting Data

Sampling. Interviews. Questionnaires. Observations

Part 4 Analysis and Presentation

Introduction to Analysis. Analysing Qualitative Data. Analysing Quantitative Data

Part 5 Writing Up

Writing Up

Date reviewed

05/04/2004

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