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New book: “Doing Research: A Practical Guide”

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Author: Martha “Marty” E. Farrar Highfield

NOW AVAILABLE ELECTRONICALLY & SOON IN PRINT.

CHECK OUT: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-79044-7

This book provides a step-by-step summary of how to do clinical research. It explains what research is and isn’t, where to begin and end, and the meaning of key terms. A project planning worksheet is included and can be used as readers work their way through the book in developing a research protocol. The purpose of this book is to empower curious clinicians who want data-based answers.

Doing Research is a concise, user-friendly guide to conducting research, rather than a comprehensive research text. The book contains 12 main chapters followed by the protocol worksheet. Chapter 1 offers a dozen tips to get started, Chapter 2 defines research, and Chapters 3-9 focus on planning. Chapters 10-12 then guide readers through challenges of conducting a study, getting answers from the data, and disseminating results. Useful key points, tips, and alerts are strewn throughout the book to advise and encourage readers.

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The Whole Picture: Mixed Methods Design

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Idea2Mixed methods (MM) research provides a more complete picture of reality by including both complementary quantitative and qualitative data.

A clinical analogy for MM research is asking patients to rate their pain numerically on a 0–10 scale and then to describe the pain character in words.

MM researchers sometimes include both experimental hypotheses and non-experimental research questions in the same study.

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Common MM subtypes are in the below table. In concurrent designs investigators collect all data at the same time, and in sequential designs they collect one type of data before the other. In triangulated MM, data receive equal weight, but in embedded designs, such as a large RCT in which only a small subset of RCT participants are interviewed, the main study data is weighted more heavily. In sequential MM, researchers give more weight to whatever type of data were collected first; for exploratory this is qualitative data and for explanatory it is quantitative data.

FOR MORE INFO: WHAT IS MIXED METHODS RESEARCH? – Dr. John Creswell

MM DESIGNEQUALLY WEIGHTED DATAPRIORITY WEIGHTED DATA
Concurrent data collection:
*Triangulation		All data
*EmbeddedMain study data
Sequential data collection:
*Exploratory		Qualitative data
*ExplanatoryQuantitative data
TYPES OF MM DESIGN: Concurrent & Sequential