Week 14 Flashcards
why is EBP important to health professionals?
- accountability
- professional standards
- clinical competence and safety
- to improve practice and service
- apply research to the real world of work
- development of clinical protocols and policies
Resources for evidence based practice include?
- clinical guidelines
- systematic reviews and meta-analyses
- other reviews of the research literature
- published research reports
Components of research reports include?
- Title
- abstract
- introduction/literature review
- methods
- results
- discussion
- conclusions
- references
define qualitative research
- provides a complete picture of phenomena of interest
- trustworthiness/rigor have specific meaning (build up the level of trust)
- researchers are not at arms length
- research procedures intended to yield non-numerical information (words not numbers)
List some types of qualitative methods
- descriptive exploratory
- phenomenology
- grounded theory
- ethonology
- historical
- case study
- action research
An overview of quantitative research consists of
- a partial picture of phenomena of interest
- research procedures yield numerical information
- researchers are at arms length from data collection process
- validity has specific meaning
List some types of quantitative research studies
- quasi-experimental
- experimental
- case control
- cohort
- retrospective
- cross-sectional
- longitudinal
- correlational
what is the purpose of sampling?
- to increase efficiency of study
- maintain representativeness
- minimise bias (quantitative)
- represent the characteristics of interest of target population
what is the sampling goals for qualitative research?
- to find the best source of data relevant to study aims/objectives
- obtain insights into the phenomenon
what is the sampling goals for quantitative research?
- obtain sample representative of population of interest
- obtain sample that allows effects of specified variables to be distinguished from other variables
probability sampling includes?
- simple random sampling
- stratified random sampling
- cluster sampling
- systematic sampling
qualitative data collection methods include?
- interviews
- journal entries/other written data
- observation (generally participant)
- examination of documents
- focus groups
how do we ensure trustworthiness/rigor?
by conducting members checks
- audit trails
- triangulation
quantitative data collection methods include?
- physiological/laboratory-based (experiments)
- observational
- questions and self-report scales questionnaires
- interviews
define internal validity
-refers to whether intervention (independent variable) had real measurable effect on outcome (dependant) variable
