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<p>Aim To compare and contrast postal and internet surveys in studies of nurse workforces.</p> <p>Background There is little research that examines the advanta
<p>Aim To identify characteristics of enabling and disabling research cultures.</p> <p>Background ‘Research culture’ is a term that is taken for granted and se
<p>Aim To provide an overview of the relevance and strengths of focused ethnography in nursing research.
<p>Aim The aim of this paper is to inform and advise researchers on the practical issues associated with involving stroke patients and their carers in research.</p>
<p>Aim To present a novice researcher’s use of a reflective research diary in the quantitive measure of a mixed methods study and to recommend resulting changes to practic
<p>Aim To present an approach to involving people with communication disorders in research.</p> <p>Background Patient and public involvement (PPI) is promoted
<p>Aim To explore the evolution of grounded theory and equip the reader with a greater understanding of the diverse conceptual positioning that is evident in the methodolo
<p>Aim To discuss the creation of a substantive theory using grounded theory.
<p>Aim To explain Q methodology, an untraditional approach to nursing research, by exploring the various stages involved in it and using two studies.</p> <p>Ba
<p>Aim To explore the problems involved in conducting research with populations that are hidden or hard to reach, and to suggest strategies to recruit participants.</p&
<p>Aim To devise a framework to enable the grading of the psychometric strength of instruments and questionnaires.</p> <p>Background Clinicians and researchers
<p>Aim To provide a comprehensive overview of the many research approaches related to phenomenology and their philosophical underpinnings.</p> <p>Background Ph
<p>Aim To discuss the potential contribution of ‘auto/ biography’ to nursing research.</p> <p>Background Auto/biographical research approaches involve researchers reflexively recognising that their intellectual and personal biographies are inseparable from the way that they cond
<p>Aim To explore the use of paradigms as ontological and philosophical guides for conducting PhD research.</p> <p>Background A paradigm can help to bridge the aims of a study and the methods to achieve them.
<p>Aim To describe the use of methodological triangulation in a study of how people who had moved to retirement communities were adjusting.</p> <p>Background Methodological triangulation involves using more than one kind of method to study a phenomenon.
<p>Aim To test the psychometric properties of the Family Impact of Pain Scale (FIPS) using a sample of families resident in North Queensland.</p> <p>Background While pain has a significant effect on the individual, the entire family can be affected when a member of the family ha
<p>Aim To discuss the nature of and considerations in the study of social processes.</p> <p>Background Social processes include the elements of time, change and human interaction and many phenomena of interest to nurse researchers.
<p>Aim To demonstrate the methodological usefulness of interpretive interactionism by applying it to the example of a study investigating healthcare experiences of women affected by domestic violence.</p> <p>Background Understanding patients’ experiences of health, illness and h
