Understanding and critiquing quantitative research papers

2006 jul 11-17;102(28):tanding and critiquing quantitative research information1city university, ctthis article, the second in a three-part series on research, explores quantitative research.

Understanding and critiquing qualitative research papers

Quantitative research aims to focus on objectivity, and therefore searches for answers that can be generalised to other situations.

Quantitative researchers believe that it is possible to focus on objective reality within the : 16869219 [indexed for medline] sharemesh termsmesh termsdouble-blind methodevaluation studies as topichumansnurse's rolenursing research/methodsnursing research/standards*periodicals as topicprofessional competence/standardsrandom allocationrandomized controlled trials as topic/standardsreproducibility of resultsresearch design/standards*linkout - more resourcesfull text sourcesovid technologies, commons home.

October, 2017 10:23 week's practice comment:Comment: ‘clinical research nurses have a vital role in high-quality care’.

Clare meachin explains how this will support the specialty, help develop a culture of research and innovation, and make a difference to patients and the ng units and g times learning is nursing times learning?

Are here:nurse tanding and critiquing qualitative research first article in this series on understanding research (lee, 2006a) examined the basic terminology used by researchers and identified that qualitative research produced non-numerical (qualitative) data.

This type of research aims to report a situation as it actually is in a natural rather than a laboratory ative researchers justify this approach by suggesting that it is not possible to separate the context or setting in which the phenomenon occurs from the phenomenon itself (morse and field, 1996).

102, issue: 29, page no: 30polly lee, msc, ba, rscn, rgn, rm, dipn, iltm, is lecturer in child health nursing, city university, londonunderstanding qualitative researchsome of the terminology that relates to qualitative and quantitative research and how these relate to different worldviews (paradigms) was introduced in the first article in this series.

Readers of qualitative research need a sound understanding of the terminology specific to this type of research to make full sense of the qualitative research there are different approaches (methodologies).

Researcher undertaking a study on this topic may: follow a particular ethnic group over a prolonged period of time - in the past this would have involved living among that population (this is known as ethnography); explore what patients understand about the different treatments and build a theory as the research progresses (grounded theory); or explore the lived experience of hypertension (phenomenology).

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2006 jul 18-24;102(29):tanding and critiquing qualitative research information1child health nursing, city university, ctthis article, the last in a series on research, examines the steps involved in qualitative research before introducing more terminology regarding the different approaches to qualitative studies.

The process of evaluating qualitative research is explored by using an evaluative framework to further explain some of the terminology that researchers : 16895246 [indexed for medline] sharemesh termsmesh termsdata collection/methodsdata collection/standardsdata interpretation, statisticalhumansnursing methodology research/organization & administration*periodicals as topicqualitative research*reproducibility of resultsresearch design/standards*writing/standardslinkout - more resourcesfull text sourcesovid technologies, commons home.