Health Student's Research Survival Guide, 1st edition

Published by Pearson (September 20, 2013) © 2014

  • Trudy Dwyer Central Queensland University
  • Marc Broadbent Central Queensland University
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The information within the resource is by no means a comprehensive health research text, rather information which serves as a quick reference for students in their everyday activities involving research. The resource is not meant to be large or bulky, rather a small, concise and easy to access guide that is readily available in the users pocket in the clinical environment.

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  • Research and Evidence-based Practice
  • Introduction
  • Definition of research
  • Evidence-based practice (EBP)
  • Evidence-based health care (EBHC)
  • Difference between research and evidence
  • Five steps of EBP
  • 1. ASK the question: PICO
  • 2. ACQUIRE evidence
  • 3. APPRAISE evidence
  • 4. APPLY the evidence
  • 5. EVALUATE
  • Research and ethics
  • Human research ethics
  • Definitions
  • What is harm?
  • What is inconvenience?
  • Types of participants
  • Quality activities
  • Research paradigms
  • Quantitative research
  • Descriptive (non-experimental)
  • Correlational designs
  • Experimental
  • Quasi-experimental designs
  • Qualitative research 
  • Mixed methods design
  • Sampling
  • Definitions
  • Sample size
  • Bias
  • 1. Selection biases
  • 2. Measurement biases
  • 3. Intervention (exposure) bias
  • Qualitative data analysis
  • Stages in analysing qualitative data
  • A few key points with qualitative analysis
  • Coding
  • Content analysis
  • Thematic analysis
  • Presenting qualitative data
  • Quantitative data analysis
  • Descriptive statistics
  • Normal curve
  • Inferential
  • Parametric tests
  • Non-parametric tests

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