Nursing and Healthcare Research at a Glance

Nursing and Healthcare Research at a Glance is perfect for nursing and healthcare students, as well as newly qualified practitioners and anyone looking for a refresher or introduction to research.

Covering a broad range of topics gathered under key sections, this essential bookcombines informative diagrams and images to provide memorable information for students on one page, and accessible, clearly written text on the facing page. It includes information on a range of quantitative and qualitative research methods, the process of gaining ethical permission, conducting research with special groups including children, and successfully conducting reviews of the literature.

Key features include:

Clear and informative full colour illustrations throughout An emphasis on need–to–know research information for busy students and healthcare staff A wide range of research methods, currently used in modern healthcare research An impressive line–up of specialist and well–known experts in the field of health and nursing research

This book provides quick access to the principles and reality of research and its implementation within the education and practice environment. It is essential reading for anyone in health service education and service settings with limited time who need to draw on research evidence.

Contributors

Preface

Part 1: What is Healthcare Research?

1 The research journey

2 Types of review and their purpose

3 Using databases to search the literature

4 Undertaking a Cochrane systematic review

5 Undertaking a Joanna Briggs Institute review

6 Using Endnote

7 Using the PICO framework

8 Using the SPICE framework

9 Using grey literature in the quest for evidence

10 Why does research need evaluating?

11 Key issues in evaluating research

12 Critically reviewing a research paper

13 The hierarchy of evidence

14 Factors influencing research design

15 Patient and Public Involvement in research

16 Descriptive studies

17 Action research

18 Participatory health research

19 The ethics of healthcare research

20 Preparing a research proposal

21 Developing a patient research information pack

22 Getting the most from supervision

23 Writing a research report

24 Implementation of Healthcare Research

25 Barriers to research utilisation

26 Designing service evaluations

27 Designing audit tools for measuring compliance

Part 2: Quantitative research

28 Quantitative and Qualitative Research Approaches

29 Understanding the randomised controlled trial

30 Quasi–experimental study design

31 Case control studies

32  Cross–sectional design

33 Survey research methods

34 Triangulation in Research

Part 3: Qualitative research

35 Ethnography

36 Qualitative observational methods

37 Phenomenology

38 Grounded theory

39 Classical grounded theory

40 Case Study research

41 Focus group research

42 The Delphi process

43 The nominal group technique

44 The Icon Metaphor Technique

45 Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis

46 Theory building

47 Qualitative Interviewing

48 Thematic analysis

49 Social network analysis

50 Critical discourse analysis

51 Factorial Survey Using Vignettes

52 Narrative inquiry

53 Appreciative inquiry

54 Qualitative data analysis software packages

Part 4: Research techniques

55 Questionnaire design

56 Using web–based tools to design a questionnaire

57 Quality of life

58 The State–Trait Anxiety Inventory

59 Kelly s repertory grids

60 Critical incidence technique

Part 5: Conducting research with special groups

61 Conducting research with vulnerable groups

62 Research methods applicable to vulnerable groups

63 Draw and write/tell technique

64 Engaging children and young people in research

65 Photographic elicitation

66 Focus groups with children and young people

67 Critical ethnography with children

68 Using pre–test post–test designs with children

69 Conducting research with older adults

70 Conducting surveys with people with learning disabilities

71 People with a learning disability as co–researchers

72 Undertaking research with family carers

73 Conducting focus groups with vulnerable groups

74 Obtaining consent from vulnerable groups

75 Living lab approach

Part 6: Historical research

76 What is historiography?

77 Source criticism

78 Critiquing historical research

79 Oral tradition

Part 7: Educational research

80 Secondary data analysis: analysing documents

81 Traditional annotation and coding

82 Video viewpoint

83 Ethnography and healthcare education

84 Semantic annotation of skills–based sessions

85 Bricolage research methods

86 Actor network theory

Appendices

1 Sampling

2 Calculating the required sample size

3 Estimating population means

4 Research data management

5 Data typese

6 Data requirement and planning

7 Descriptive statistics

8 Frequency distribution

9 Hypothesis testing

10 Choosing the right test

11 Non–parametric tests

12 Student′s t–test

13 Analysis of variance

14 Tabulating data and the chi–squared test

15 Correlation

16 Measuring and Interpreting correlation

17 Linear regression

18  Meta–analysis

19 Propensity Score Matching

20 Mokken scaling techniques

Index