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<p>In this article, the authors describe how they worked with children and young people to develop art-based techniques and activities for use in a study exploring family
<p>A group of researchers investigated medication (drug) rounds on mental health admission wards in response to the dearth of research into the subject.
<p>In randomised controlled trials, an overlap of confidence intervals is often cited as evidence of ‘no statistically significant difference’ between intervention groups.
<p>Phenomenological research seeks to understand how individuals perceive and make sense of their lived experience (Annells 1999).
<p>People living with faecal incontinence (FI) are often reluctant to talk to family or healthcare professionals about their feelings and the effects FI has on their lives
This article discusses the purpose, process and usefulness of narrative-based research.
<p>Family researchers enter a sacred space in which the most intimate, formative and sustaining processes of human existence take place.
<p>This paper describes the process of developing and testing a family nursing scale called Family Care during Child’s Illness (FCCI).
<p>Ethics has been defined as moral principles that in the context of research pertain to treating participants fairly and responsibly throughout the research process (Wil
<p>Conference presentations are increasingly recognised as a mechanism for the dissemination of nursing knowledge (O’Neill and Duffey 2000, Cleary and Walter 2004), and th
<p>Focus groups have been used by researchers in the social and behavioural sciences for more than 80 years.
<p>Qualitative research methods are accepted as congruent with and relevant to the perspective and goals of nursing.
<p>The NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde Managed Clinical Network (MCN) for Coronary Heart Disease was formed in 2003 with the aim of improving the heart health of the people of Glasgow and Clyde.
<p>In any survey, despite researchers’ best efforts in the use of scientific techniques, results can only be drawn and generalised based on the amount of information that is returned: that is, on the response rate or returns they obtain from the groups they sought information from.
<p>This paper will discuss the outcomes when group reflection was used to identify participants’ learning in an action research study, the purpose of which was to evaluate a nurse-led unit located in a community hospital.
<p>Drug abuse rehabilitation, characterised by high recidivism and difficult-to-access populations, is one of the greatest challenges of modern health care.
<p>Globally, the population is ageing. The world’s elderly population is increasing by 795,000 each month (Kinsella and Velkoff 2001). Industrialised nations have demonstrated a tremendous increase in this population.
<p>The continuous growth of research knowledge and the demands for evidence-based practice have created a need to gather, analyse and synthesise previous research knowledge (Evans and Pearson 2001, Magarey 2001, Evans 2002, Jones 2004).
