Learn the foundations to becoming an evidence-based health practitioner.

Research Methods and Evidence-based Practice introduces students to various research techniques they can use throughout their degree and into a range of health settings. It teaches qualitative and quantitative research methods of finding evidence to help students make informed decisions in their practice and for their clients.

This new edition has been updated to reflect the increasing importance of evidence-based practice. It questions what type of evidence we need in health-care practice and explains how a research approach can help acquire the most suitable evidence for the situation. This book also addresses timely changes in conducting research, including internet and social-media research, research with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and making sense of research data in a meaningful way.

NEW TO THIS EDITION

• Five new chapters highlight the increasing importance of evidence-based practice:
  • Chapter 1: Introducing Evidence-based Practice in Health Care
  • Chapter 4: Ethics in Health Research
  • Chapter 14: Mixed Methods and Evidence-based Health Care
  • Chapter 15: Internet and Social Media as Research Tools for Evidence-based Practice
  • Chapter 16: Research with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples
• A stronger focus on data analysis and interpretation.
• Updated Stop and Think boxes enable students to practise their research skills to generate evidence and critically reflect on their own responses to important issues discussed.
• Updated Practice Exercises encourage students to translate theory into practice.
• Updated Research in Practice boxes provide real-world examples that demonstrate how research can be applied to clinical practice in health care.

Part I: Methods and Principles
1. Introducing Evidence-based Practice in Health Care
2. The Science of Words and the Science of Numbers: Research Methods in Health
3. Getting Started: Designing and Planning a Research Project
4. Ethics in Health Research
Part II: Qualitative Approaches and Practices
5. The In-depth Interviewing Method in Health
6. Focus Groups in Health Research
7. Narrative Enquiry and Health Research
8. Grounded Theory in Health Research
Part III: Quantitative Approaches and Practices
9. Reliability and Validity of Clinical Measurement Tools
10. Single-case Experimental Designs in Health Research
11. Surveys and Questionnaires in Health Research
12. How Do We Know What We Know? Epidemiology in Health Research
13. Clinical Trials: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Part IV: Mixed Methods Research and Systematic Reviews
14. Mixed Methods and Evidence-based Health Care
15. Internet and Social Media as Research Tools for Evidence-based Practice
16. Research with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples
17. Metasynthesis and Qualitative Evidence in Health Care
18. Systematic Reviews and Evidence-based Knowledge
Part V: Making Sense and Presenting Data
19. Making Sense of Qualitative Data
20. Computer-assisted Qualitative Data Analysis (CAQDAS)
21. Data Analysis in Quantitative Research
22. Writing and Appraising Research Reports

The following resources are available for lecturers who prescribe Research Methods and Evidence-based Practice for their course:

• Instructor’s Resource Manual for use with the textbook
• Test bank.

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Read a sample chapter from Research Methods and Evidence-based Practice:

Chapter 1: Introducing Evidence-based Practice in Health Care