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Learn the latest healthcare and human service research methods! Introduction to Research: Understanding and Applying Multiple Strategies, Seventh Edition, helps bridge the gap between research and practice by giving you a solid foundation for critiquing your own work. This easy-to-read guide covers all the major research design strategies: qualitative, quantitative, naturalistic, experimental-type, and mixed method. Plus, this edition has been updated to include contemporary references, two all-new chapters, updated research methods, and more.
Learn the latest healthcare and human service research methods! Introduction to Research: Understanding and Applying Multiple Strategies, Seventh Edition, helps bridge the gap between research and practice by giving you a solid foundation for critiquing your own work. This easy-to-read guide covers all the major research design strategies: qualitative, quantitative, naturalistic, experimental-type, and mixed method. Plus, this edition has been updated to include contemporary references, two all-new chapters, updated research methods, and more.
Key Features
UPDATED! New thinking on who can know, who should be involved in the research enterprise, big data, research methods, strategies, and references provides you with the latest information on research in diverse areas of health and human service inquiry
Comprehensive coverageof research designs helps you further understand how to apply these methods to healthcare and human service settings
Detailed examination of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methodologies offers a unique and balanced focus that makes this text more comprehensive than others in its field
NEW! Two additional chapters cover contemporary ethical issues and emergent design
NEW! Enhanced ebook version,included with every new print purchase, features math tips and study questions, plus access to all the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud
Case examples provide real-life snapshots of what it is like to participate in different types of research processes, identify research dilemmas relevant to chapter subjects, and alert you to problems you might encounter
Contemporary practice examples give you a highly relevant understanding of today’s changing health and human service and research environments
In-depth analysis of big data and data analytics expands your knowledge of how to apply these numbers to health and human service research
Emphasis on technology in researchand research-informed practice ensures you grasp the latest available methods
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By Elizabeth DePoy, PhD, MSW, OTR, Professor, Interdisciplinary Disability Studies and Social Work and Cooperating Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Cooperating Faculty, School of Policy and International Affairs, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, USA
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