Models of Research -- Research in the Real World -- Style and Organization of the Book -- Health Care Settings and Collaborative Research -- Features of the Settings -- "Outsider" Issues: Gaining and Maintaining Access -- "Insider" Issues: Role Conflict -- Constructing the Research Team -- Asking Research Questions -- Approaches to Health Issues -- Generating Research Ideas -- Refining the Question -- Designing the Study -- Correlational Designs -- Two Examples of Problematic Designs -- Quasi-Experimental Designs -- Experimental Designs -- Selecting the Sample -- Defining the Population of Interest -- Ethical Issues in Recruitment -- Choosing Measures and Using Existing Data -- Choosing Measures -- Using Existing Data -- Existing Data on Cognition and Affect -- Existing Data on Behavior -- Existing Data on Health Outcome/Status -- Existing Data on Environment -- Self- and Other Reports of Cognition and Affect -- Self- and Other Reports of Behavior -- Self- and Other Reports of Health Status -- Self- and Other Reports of Environment -- Observation and Physiological Measures -- Observation -- Observational Measures of Cognition and Affect -- Observational Measures of Behavior -- Observational Measures of Health Status -- Physiological Measures -- Physiological Measures of Cognition and Affect -- Physiological Measures of Behavior -- Physiological Measures of Health Status/Outcome -- Conducting the Study -- Designing the Intervention -- Constructing Your Instruments -- Developing the Procedures
Summary
'Research in Health Care Settings' provides an abbreviated review of the step-by-step process of conducting research; a glimpse backstage at the way research is actually done; a discussion of the problems of collaboration; and more
