Research Made Easy in Complementary and Alternative Medicine

This is a clear and lively book intended for students and practitioners from a variety of healthcare backgrounds who want to gain a first foothold in understanding research. It is a highly engaging and very visually attractive introduction to research which students and practitioners will use to gain confidence and to develop as far as initiating small practice based research projects. The book will outline how to get started, how to formulate useful and answerable research questions, a range of methodologies set in terms of their usefulness and limitations, strategies for seeing the project through and writing up the results. Pitfalls and pointers are highlighted along the way.

• Provides a realistic and clear introduction to understanding research
• Features simple explanation of all key concepts
• Offers clear guidance on how to formulate and initiate a project
• Includes a summary of pros and cons of each research methodology
• Provides examples relating to each method

• Includes checklists, summary boxes, warnings, tips and illustrations in abundance

  Klappentext

  Intended for students and practitioners to gain understanding in research. This book is provides an introduction to research that helps to initiate small practice based research projects. It outlines how to start, how to formulate research questions, methodologies, strategies for seeing the project through, and writing up the results.

  Inhalt

  Section 1: Introduction

  1. Introduction
  2. General design issues
  3. Reviewing the literature
  4. Research ethics
     Section 2: Strategies
  5. Action research
  6. Case Studies
  7. Ethnography
  8. Experiments
  9. Surveys
  10. Systematic reviews
      Section 3: Collecting Data
  11. Sampling
  12. Interviews
  13. Questionnaires
  14. Observations
      Section 4: Analysis and Presentation
  15. Introduction to analysis
  16. Qualitative analysis
  17. Quantitative analysis
      Section 5: Writing Up
      1 Writing Up
      References