Research in Health Care Settings / Edition 1

by Kathleen E. Grady, Barbara Strudler Wallston

Overview

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 help in building bridges to the health professional necessarily immersed in the day-to-day problems and emergencies of health care

Applied Research is defined as requiring a completely different model from the textbook model traditionally presented. 'Research in the Real World' is shown to require good judgement, flexibility and creativity. The volume is thus essential reading for all social scientists.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803928756
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	06/01/1988
Series:	Applied Social Research Methods , #14
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.41(d)

About the Author

Kathleen E. Grady, Ph.D, is founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Behavioral Medicine in East Longmeadow, MA.

Barbara Strudler Wallston1,3 (1943–1987), a fine feminist scholar who died young, was the recipient of many awards. Wallston possessed awesome organizational skills and rose to early leadership in organizations fostering women’s careers within psychology and the development of the psychology of women. She was a leader in the Association for Women in Psychology as well as the sixth president of the APA’s Division on the Psychology of Women.

Wallston also made important contributions to psychological research. She developed a health locus of control scale with her then husband, Kenneth Wallston, which is used internationally to measure people’s beliefs about what controls their health status. She also worked in the area of dual-career couples, stereotyping, and feminist methodology in psychology.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Health Care Settings and Collaborative Research
Asking Research Questions
Designing the Study
Selecting the Sample
Choosing Measures and Using Existing Data
Self-Report and Other Report
Observation and Physiological Measures
Conducting the Study
Interpreting and Publishing Findings