Rapid research methods for nurses, midwives, and health professionals

Content: Introduction xi     Abstract 1     Accidental sampling 1     Action research 2     Aim 3     Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) 4     Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) 5     Anonymity 6     Audit 7     Audit trail 8     Back chaining 9     Bar graph 10     Before and after designs 11     Beneficence 12     Bias 13     Blinding 14     Bracketing 15     Case   control study 16     Causal relationship 17     Cell 18 Chi-square test (  2) 19     Clinical trial 19     Closed (close-ended fixed choice) questions 20     Cluster sample 21     Coding 22     Cohort study 23     Concept definition 24     Confidentiality 25     Confirmability 26     Confounding variable 27     Contingency table 27     Control group 28     Convenience sample 29     Correlation 30     Covert observation 31     Credibility 32     Cross-over design 33     Cross-sectional study 34     Critique 35     Data 36     Database 37     Data saturation 38     Demographic data 39     Dependent variable 40     Descriptive statistics 41     Double-blind study 42     Ethics 43     Ethics committee 45     Ethnographic research 46     Exclusion criteria 46     Experimental design 47     Ex post facto studies 49     Face validity 50     Fieldwork diary 51     Fieldwork 52     Findings 53     Fittingness 54     Focus group 55     Forward chaining 56     Frequency distribution 57     Generalisability 58     Grey literature 59     Grounded theory 60     Hawthorne effect 61     Hermeneutics 62     Heterogeneity and homogeneity 63     Hierarchy of evidence 64     Histogram 65     Homogeneity 65     Hypothesis 66     Inclusion and exclusion criteria 67     Inferential statistics 68     Independent variable 69     Informed consent 70     Interval data 70     Interviews 71     Inverse relationship 72     Judgemental sample 73     Justice 73     Key informant 74     Key words 75     Levels of measurement 76     Likert scale 78     Literature review 79     Manipulation 80     Masking 80     Measures of central tendency 81     Mean 81     Measures of dispersion 82     Meta-analysis 83     Mode 83     Median 83     Naturalistic research 84     Non-maleficence 84     Nominal data 84     Non-probability sampling methods 85     Normal distribution 86     Null hypothesis 86     Observation 87     Observational designs 88     Open questions 89     Operational definition 90     Opportunity sample 90     Outliers 91     Ordinal data 91     p Values 92     Paradigm 95     Phenomenology 96     PICO 96     Pilot study 97     Population 98     Power analysis 99     Pretest   posttest designs 99     Principles of research 100     Probability sampling methods 100     Prospective and retrospective study designs 101     Qualitative research designs 102     Quantitative research designs 104     Quasi-experimental research 105     Questionnaires 106     Quota sampling 106     Randomisation 107     Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) 108     Range 108     Ratio data 108     Reflexivity 108     Reliability 109     Research 110     Research design 111     Research method 112     Response rate 112     Retrospective study 112     Review of the literature 112     Rigour 113     Sample 114     Sampling methods 114     Sampling frame 116     Self-report 116     Snowball sample 116     Social desirability 116     Statistical analysis 116     Survey 117     Systematic reviews of the literature 117     Table 118     Thick data 119     Transferability 119     Triangulation 119     Trustworthiness 119     Type I Type II Type III errors 120     Unstructured interviews 122     Unstructured observations 123     Validity 124     Variable 126