Quantitative Research for Chaplains and Health Care Professionals: A Primer

ISBN-13: 9781138350779 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 116 str.

Kevin J. Flannelly; Laura T. Flannelly; Katherine R. B. Jankowski

Opis

This book helps students to realize the methods and results of research articles and to interpret these results; and allows them to discuss their research topics and findings. It gives them the expertise to conduct their own research projects. The chapters in this book were originally published as articles in the Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy.

Spis treści

1. Scientific Method and Its Application to Chaplaincy;  2. Research Designs and Making Causal Inferences from Health Care Studies;  3. Fundamentals of Measurement in Health Care Research;  4. Operational Definitions in Research on Religion and Health;  5. Independent, Dependent, and Other Variables in Healthcare and Chaplaincy Research;  6. Measures of Central Tendency in Chaplaincy, Health Care, and Related Research;  7. Measures of Variability in Chaplaincy, Health Care, and Related Research  8. Studying Associations in Health Care Research  9. The t-test: An Influential Inferential Tool in Chaplaincy and Other Healthcare Research;  10. Threats to the Internal Validity of Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Research in Healthcare