Research methods in palliative care
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 7 June 2007
- ISBN 9780198530251
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages328 pages
- Size 233x155x17 mm
- Weight 489 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 3 black and white line illustrations 0
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Short description:
The research base for palliative care must improve as it continues to develop in increasingly evidence-based health care systems, and to provide the needs of patients and families. This is the first research methods textbook focusing on the unique needs of palliative care, aimed at improving current research and stimulating new research in the field.
MoreLong description:
Palliative and end of life care are concerned with the physical, social, psychological and spiritual care of people with advanced disease. It currently has a poorly developed research base, but the need to improve this is increasingly recognised. One of the reasons for the lack of research - and the variable quality of the research that is undertaken - is the difficulty of conducting research with very ill and bereaved people. Standard and well-established research methods may need to be adapted to work in this context. This means that existing research methods textbooks may be of limited use to palliative care practitioners seeking to do research for the first time, or to more experienced researchers wanting to apply their knowledge in palliative care settings.
This research methods textbook is the first to be written specifically for palliative care. It has been edited by four experienced palliative care academics with acknowledged expertise and international reputations in this field. It encompasses methods used in both clinical and health services research in palliative care, with sections on clinical, epidemiological, survey and qualitative research, as well as a section covering skills needed in any research project. Each chapter provides readers with an up to date overview of the research method in question, an understanding of its applicability to palliative care and of the particular challenges of using it in this setting. It is essential reading for all palliative care researchers.
The book is well set out, with a useful system of headings ... easily understood by somebody not familiar with the research process. ...this book will be a useful reference for those experienced in research and an invaluable guide for those embarking upon it for the first time.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Section 1 - Clinical Trials
Principles of designing clinical trials in palliative care
Ethical and practical issues in designing and conducting clinical trials in palliative care
Section 2 - Survey Research
Survey design
Survey research: methods of data collection, questionnaire design, and piloting
Section 3 - Epidemiological Research Methods
Experimental and quasi-experimental designs
Outcome measurement
Systematic reviews
Section 4 - Qualitative Research Methods
Qualitative methods of data collection and analysis
Ethical and practice issues in qualitative research
Evaluating qualitative research
Mixed methods for evaluation research
Ethnography
Documentary analysis and policy
Section 5 - How to...
How to develop a research question
Writing a research proposal
How to gain research ethics approval
How to use a statistician
How to write a paper
