When Research Goes Off the Rails

Why It Happens and What You Can Do about It
Herausgeber: Streiner, David L; Sidani, Souraya

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Produktbeschreibung

Few behavioral or health science studies proceed seamlessly. This refreshingly candid guide presents firsthand vignettes of obstacles on the bumpy road of research and offers feasible, easy-to-implement solutions. Contributors from a range of disciplines describe real-world problems at each stage of a quantitative or qualitative research projectâEUR"from gaining review board approval to collecting and analyzing dataâEUR"and discuss how these problems were resolved. A detailed summary chart helps readers quickly find material on specific issues, methods, and settings. Written with clarity and wit, the vignettes provide exemplars of critical thinking that researchers can apply when developing the operational plan of a study or when facing practical difficulties in a particular research phase. Winner--American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award!

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Guilford Publications
• Seitenzahl: 398
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 125mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9781606234105
• ISBN-10: 1606234102
• Artikelnr.: 26506945

Autorenporträt

David L. Streiner is Senior Scientist at the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care and Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. Souraya Sidani is Canada Research Chair, Tier One, in Health Interventions Design and Evaluation at Toronto Metropolitan University.

Inhaltsangabe

Going Off the Rails: An Introduction, Souraya Sidani and David L. Streiner
I. Ethics Approval
1. When Mountains Move Too Slowly, Melanie A. Hwalek and Victoria L. Straub
2. The Ethics of Sex Research on the Internet, Alissa Sherry and Amy Amidon
3. When Safeguards Become Straitjackets: How Ethics Research Board
Requirements Might Contribute to Ethical Dilemmas in Studies with
Marginalized Populations, Mechthild Meyer, Alma Estable, Lynne MacLean, and
Nancy Edwards
4. Going Off the Rails for âEURLove or MoneyâEUR: Implementation Issues
Related to Payment of Research Participants in an Addiction-Research
Project, Brian R. Rush and Dominique Morisano
II. Accessing the Participants
5. Frailty, Thy Name Is Macho, JosÃ(c) Quirino dos Santos
6. Power in Numbers: Research with Families in Long-Term Care, Julie M.
Dergal Serafini
7. Getting the Wrong Gatekeeper, Lynne MacLean
8. Breaking into Court, Mandeep K. Dhami and Karen A. Souza
9. The RDC Archipelago, Scott Veldhuizen, John Cairney, and David L.
Streiner
III. Recruitment and Retention
10. Small Colleges and Small nâEUR(TM)s, Christopher Koch and Anna Tabor
11. Mitigating the Impact of External Forces, Souraya Sidani, David L.
Streiner, and Chantale Marie LeClerc
12. A Trip to the School of Hard Knocks: Recruiting Participants from
Health Service Agencies for Qualitative Studies of Aging, Kathleen W.
Piercy
13. All Aboard!: Using Community Leaders to Keep Clinical Researchers on
Track, Philippe Barrette
14. Changing Horses in Midstream: Transforming a Study to Address
Recruitment Problems, Anthony S. Joyce
15. When Cost Meets Efficiency: Rethinking Ways to Sample a Rare
Population, Julian Montoro-Rodriguez and Gregory C. Smith
16. The Story Is in the Numbers, Robert van Reekum
17. Strategies for Retaining Participants in Longitudinal Research with
Economically Disadvantaged and Ethnically Diverse Samples, Elizabeth A.
Goncy, Michelle E. Roley, and Manfred H. M. van Dulmen
18. Culturally Specific Strategies for Retention and Adherence to Physical
Activity Interventions in Hispanic Women, Colleen Keller, Julie Fleury, and
Adrianna Perez
IV. Study Implementation
19. When a Beautiful Intervention Meets Ugly Reality: Implementing an
Intervention in the Real World, Souraya Sidani, David L. Streiner, and
Chantale Marie LeClerc
20. When Saving Blood Goes Wrong, Claudio S. Cinà and Catherine M. Clase
21. PDA = Pretty Darned Awful: The Trials and Tribulations of Running
Trials of PDAs, Geoffrey R. Norman
22. When Sugar Is Not So Sweet: Camera Shyness and Intentional
Cointervention Almost Derail a Study, Françoise Filion and C. Celeste
Johnston
23. Placebo Problems: Power and Persecution, or Paranoia?, Robert van
Reekum
V. Data Collection
24. Revisiting Traditional Survey Methodology to Recruit and Survey
Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Older Adults, S. Melinda Spencer and Julie Hicks
Patrick
25. Technology: Help or Hindrance?, Nasreen Roberts
26. Hoist on Our Own Postcard, David L. Streiner
27. On the Finer Points of Handling Googlies: Reflections on Hits, Near
Misses, and Full-Blown Swings at the Air in Large, Population-Based Studies
Involving School, Parents, and Children, John Cairney, John A. Hay, and
Brent E. Faught
28. Pets, Pies, and Videotape: Conducting In-Home Observational Research
with Late-Life Intergenerational Families, Brian D. Carpenter and Steve
Balsis
29. Underfunded but Not Undone, Dianne Bryant
30. Community-Based Participatory Research: A Lesson in Humility, Dennis
Watson
31. Where Did All the Bodies Go?, Harry S. Shannon
32. Measures for Improving Measures, Katherine McKnight, and Patrick E.
McKnight
VI. Data Analysis
33. Drowsing Over Data: When Less Is More, Lynne MacLean, Alma Estable,
Mechthild Meyer, Anita Kothari, Nancy Edwards, and Barb Riley
34. Bigger Is Not Always Better: Adventures in the World of Survey Data
Analysis, Sylvia Kairouz and Louise Nadeau
35. Taking Aim at a Moving Target: When a Study Changes in the Middle,
Arturo MartÃ-Carvajal
36. Lack of Normative Data as an Obstacle to Neuropsychological Assessment,
F. Richard Ferraro and Kaylee Trottier-Wolter
37. These Data Do Not Compute, Lynne MacLean, Mechthild Meyer, Alma
Estable, Anita Kothari, and Nancy Edwards
38. Avoiding Data Disasters and Other Pitfalls, Melinda F. Davis
39. When Interpretation Goes Awry: The Impact of Interim Testing, Dale
Glaser
VII. Collaboration
40. What Happened to Cooperation and Collaboration?, Nasreen Roberts
41. Presto! ItâEUR(TM)s Gone: When a Study Ceases to Exist Right before
Your Eyes, Katrina L. Bledsoe
42. Building Stakeholder Capacity to Enhance Effectiveness in Participatory
Program Evaluation, Debazou Y. Yantio
VIII. Final Thoughts
43. Sometimes It Is the Researcher, Not the Research, That Goes âEUROff
the RailsâEUR: The Value of Clear, Complete, and Precise Information in
Scientific Reports, Joseph A. Durlak, Christine I. Celio, Molly K. Pachan,
and Kriston B. Schellinger
44. A Healthy Dose of Realism, Souraya Sidani and David L. Streiner