Healthcare Research (eBook)

Paula Roberts is Senior Lecturer in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Keele University, Staffordshire, UK. Helena Priest is Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology at Keele University, Staffordshire, UK.

Foreword.

Preface.

Acknowledgements.

PART 1 THEORY AND PRACTICE.

1 Why healthcare research? (Michael Traynor).

2 Approaches to healthcare research (Oliver
Slevin).

3 Taking the first step: Developing a research
proposal (Leslie Woods, Helena Priest and Paula
Roberts).

4 What do we know already? Searching the
literature (Susan Smith and David Bird)

5 Can we trust the evidence? Critically reviewing a research
paper (David Rogers).

6 Conducting ethical research in healthcare (Helena
Priest and Paula Roberts).

7 Quantitative research methods: Gathering and making sense of
numbers (David Clark-Carter).

8 Qualitative research methods: Gathering and making sense of
words (Helena Priest and Paula Roberts).

9 Making your case: Writing for your audience (Mike
Brough, Susan Smith, Paula Roberts and Helena Priest).

10 Sharing research knowledge (Paula Roberts, Colin
Macduff, Tim Smale and Helena Priest).

PART 2 RESEARCH IN ACTION.

11 Combining research methods: Case studies and action
research (Rebecca Jester).

12 Involving vulnerable people in research (Helen Combes and
Ranil Tan).

13 Involving older people and carers in a research project: The
'virtual' steering group (Sue Ashby and Sian
Maslin-Prothero).

14 Involving people with intellectual disabilities in research:
Participation and emancipation (Mike Gibbs and Sue
Read).

15 Researching with children and young people (Jacqueline
Collin and Geraldine Lyte).

16 Researching organizations: Evaluating a 'partnership for
older people project' (Roger Beech, Brenda Roe, Michelle
Russell, Bernard Beech and Deborah Gent).

Postscript (Paula Roberts and Helena Priest).

Index.