Handbook of Research Methods for Nursing and Health Sciences, 2nd edition

  • Victor Minichiello
  • Gerard Sullivan
  • Ken Greenwood
  • Rita Axford

Title overview

Written in an accessible style, the text is designed for nursing and health science students who are beginning a course in research methods. 
The Australian examples reflect a diversity of health settings which emphasises the relevance of research to students.

Table of contents

  1. The Relevance of Research for Practitioners - Rita Axford, Victor Minichiello, Mary Cruickshank, Jenny McParlane,
    Lyn Irwin, Irene Coulson
  2. Role of Theory in Health Research - Rod Gerber, Wendy Moyle
  3. The Philosophical and Theoretical Context of Qualitative Research - Ian Andrews, Gerard Sullivan, Victor Minichiello
  4. Asking Quantitative Research Questions - Lynne M. Harris
  5. Obtaining Ethical Approval for Health Sciences Research - Carl L. Parsons, Jennifer Oates
  6. Experimental, Quasi-Experimental, And Correlational Quantitative Research Designs - Robert Heard, Lynne M. Harris
  7. Qualitative Research Design - Carol Grbich
  8. Sampling in Quantitative Research - Margot Schofield
  9. Sampling in Qualitative Research - Gwynnyth Llewellyn, Gerard Sullivan and Victor Minichiello
  10. Epidemiological Research - Damien Jolley
  11. Action Research - Annette F. Street
  12. Single Case Experimental Design - Kenneth Mark Greenwood
  13. Measurement: Concepts, Tools and Issues - Kenneth Mark Greenwood
  14. Structured Questionnaires and Interviews - David de Vaus
  15. Reporting on Events Using Diaries  - Rodrigo Mariño, Victor Minichiello, Jan Browne
  16. Doing Qualitative In-depth Interviews - Victor Minichiello, Jeanne Madison, Terrence Hays, Glenda Parmenter
  17. Focus Group Interviews - Winsome St John
  18. Ethnography and Participant Observation - Cherry Russell
  19. Discourse Analysis - Deborah Lupton
  20. The Logic and Need for Inferential Statistics - Kenneth Mark Greenwood
  21. Descriptive and Exploratory Data Analysis - Carolyn Unsworth
  22. A Brief Survey of Univariate Group Comparison Procedures - Ian Story
  23. Correlation and Regression - Michael Hough
  24. Using Multivariate Analysis - Lynne M. Harris, Robert Heard
  25. Grounded Theory Analysis: Coming to Data with Questioning Minds - Jan Browne

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Published by Pearson Education Australia (October 30th 2003) - Copyright © 2004