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| A systematic review of data with the intention of sorting and classifying the data into representational groups and patterns |
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| Knowledge applied to specific situations |
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| In Postmodernism, a person who creates a text or is responsible for an outcome, eg: authors of research projects |
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| Developing fundamental knowledge and testing theory |
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| An international initiative to facilitate the retrieval and synthesis of literature relevant to evidence based practice |
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| Elaborates the research problem in relation to relevant literature |
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| The particular features of the research setting that need to be taken into account when planning, undertaking and reporting a research project |
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| Numbers and/or words collected by researcher in order to answer the question |
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| Empirico-analytical Research |
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| Referred to as Quantitative, this type of research is interested in observation and analysis by the scientific method |
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| The study of knowledge and how it is judged to be true. Whenever researchers raise questions about what they know and how they know it is trustworthy |
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| Moral questions and behaviour in conducting research |
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Evidence Based Practice
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| Current clinical practice based on the beat most current research |
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| An international not for profit research and development organisation specialising in evidence based resources for healthcare professionals in nursing midwifery and allied health |
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| The process of determining quantitative characteristics of some phenomenon, such as how big, how any or how often |
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| The means or stater goes by which data is sought and analysed in qualitative research |
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| The study of existence; whenever researches ask about the nature of the existence of something or someone |
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| A way of looking at phenomena that encompasses a set of philosophical assumptions and that guides one's approach to inquiry |
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| Explores the subjective lived experiences of people & their interpretation of a range of phenomena |
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| This approach questions and rejects paradigmatic views and requires researchers to redefine their basic assumptions, intentions and roles in order to make adjustments to their present ways of viewing and doing research |
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| How data collection and analysis methods undertaken; involves the embodied values of researches, such as respecting, being patient and thoughtful, honoring, acknowledging and other ways of viewing and doing research |
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| Research interested in questions that involve human consciousness and subjectivity and that values humans and their experience in the research process |
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| Research that focuses on measuring objective variables and the cause and effect relationship between them, such as the effects of a drug dose on a patients blood pressure |
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| The strickness in judgement and the conduct that must be used to ensure that the successive steps in a project have been set out clearly and undertaken with scrupulous attention to detail so that the results, findings or insights can be trusted by people with whom the resonate |
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| That which comes from an individuals sense of inner and external things |
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| Everything; all events and phenomena are texts |
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| Guides research to determine what the variables to measure and what statistical relationships to look for; connects the researcher to existing knowledege |
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| An attempt to describe, organise or explain a phenomenon or group of phenomena of a discipline in language appropriate to the discipline |
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| An abstract generalised idea that describes a phenomenon or a group of related phenomena. |
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| A human right for private matters to remain secret; it is the researcher’s responsibility to keep data confidential so that individuals are not compromised. |
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In research integrity is expressed in a commitment to the honest and ethical search for knowledge.
pilot study A small-scale dress rehearsal for the main study.
population A group whose members have specific common characteristics that you want to investigate in your research study. |
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In the research context, privacy refers to the right of participants to decide which information they want to disclose, particularly concerning their attitudes, beliefs, behaviours and opinions, and records such as diaries and other private papers.
sampling Extracting a subgroup from within a population in order to study this group through research. |
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| A process derived from mathematics whereby researchers’ presuppositions are put to one side (in brackets) to be attended to separately so they do not impose meaning on the research. |
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| constant comparative analysis |
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| A flexible and open-ended feature of grounded theory, in which the researcher works with the data from the beginning of the project in a process of analysis to constantly compare all new data that emerge from participants’ accounts of their experiences in order to identify similarities in codes and categories. |
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| All that is written and spoken and invites dialogue or conversation. |
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| In critical research, methods and processes are geared towards helping people to find and accept their own power. |
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| Provides a portrait of people by describing and raising awareness of a group’s cultural characteristics, such as their shared symbols, beliefs, values, rituals and patterns of behaviour. |
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| Aims mainly to generate meaning, to explain and describe in order to make sense out of areas of interest. |
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| The knowledge people have of things of interest because they have experienced them through the daily activities of living their lives. |
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| Combinations of methodologies that offer wider frames of reference with a greater likelihood of generating more options for knowledge generation. |
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| Views or stories. Postmodernists are opposed to grand or meta narratives or world views based on claims to legitimise their truth; mini, micro, local or traditional narratives as stories that make no truth claims are acceptable to postmodernists. |
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| Qualitative critical methodologies |
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These methodologies interpret meaning by aiming to bring about change and raised awareness by systematic political critique and attempting to expose control, oppression, power and domination.
Qualitative interpretive methodologies Interpret meaning by exploring, explaining and describing items of interest in order to make sense of them. |
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| The data collection process for theory generation. Grounded theory sampling is an ongoing process of data collection and analysis that directs the researcher to obtain further samples. |
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| A beginning point in grounded theory for seeking some clarity on the nature of the research area to sensitise the researcher and provide insights |
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| A way of life for a group of people, interpreted through their symbols, beliefs, customs, language and life patterns. |
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| Interrogates knowledge and power inherent in spoken and written life texts |
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| Those themes that come up easily from the text because they are part of the pattern of answers and insights within the text and are relevant because their identity is clearly and directly connected to the research aims and objectives. |
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| Foucauldian-style discourse analysis |
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| A complex examination of text because it requires careful reading of entire bodies of text and other organising systems (such as taxonomies, commentaries and conference transcriptions) in relation to one another in order to interpret patterns, rules, assumptions, contradictions, silences, consequences implications and inconsistencies |
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| These themes lie hidden in the text, not always stated as a direct word or words, or even as an easily recognisable concept. |
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| Attempts to find meaning in stories through a variety of methods that best suit the research questions, aims and objectives. |
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| A method for identifying themes, essences or patterns within a text. |
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| Aims to test existing theory in Quantitative format |
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| Qualitative, Aims to generate new theory |
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| Patient or Problem Intervention Comparison Outcomes Timing |
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Quantitative Research or Scientific Method
Qualitative Research or Natural Method
Mixed Methods
Systematic Review |
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Abstract
Intro, or Background
Methods
Findings or Results
Discussion
Conclusion |
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Step-1 Planning the research
Step-2 Executing the research plan
Step-3 Inform the scientific and clinical nursing/midwifery community of the research |
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| Understanding the social environment the aim is to encourage social action for empowerment |
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| Explores womens issues experiences beliefs, way of being and ways of knowing as a legitimate and authoritative source of knowledge |
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| Studies the social interactions different groups and cultures |
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| An interpretation of data from an insider perspective |
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| An Outside observation derived from theoretical study of the group |
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An Inductive approach that usses a systemic set of procedures to arrive at theory about basic social procedures |
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| Identifies an area of concern raised by a group to bring about change |
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| Historical Approach to Research |
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| Both qualitative and quantitative, examines event of the past the researcher examines what has been and what ought to be done |
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