Intro Flashcards
When did the first journal on research emerge and when did clinical research become important?
1950s
1970s
What are the two key paradigms for nursing research?
Positivist
Naturalistic
How does positivist vs naturalistic view: Nature of Reality?
Positivist: Reality exists, there is a real world driven by natural causes
Naturalistic: Reality is multiple and subjective; constructed by individuals
How does positivist vs naturalistic view: Inquirer Relation to those being studied?
Positivist: Inquirer is independent from those being studied
Naturalistic: Inquirer interacts with those being studied; findings reflect this interaction
How does positivist vs naturalistic view: Roles of values
Positivist: Values are held in check; objectivity is sought
Naturalistic: Subjectivity and values are inevitable and desirable
How does positivist vs naturalistic view: Titles?
Positivist: Participants
Naturalistic: Informants
Which is usually aligned with a positivist tradition; qualitative or quantitative?
Quantitative
Which is usually aligned with a naturalist tradition; qualitative or quantitative?
Qualitative
What are the three forms of qualitative research
Grounded Theory
Phenomenology
Ethnography
Give a brief description of grounded theory
Describe and understand key social-psychological processes that occur in social settings
Give a brief description of phenomenology
Focus on lived experiences and learning what they are like and what they mean
Give a brief description of ethnography
Studying the meanings, patterns and experience of a defined cultural group
The SALSA framework is used to characterize types of reviews against 4 critical steps. What are these steps?
Search
AppraisaL
Synthesis
Analysis
When would you use a systematic research review?
To seek best currently available answer to a specific, focused question to support decision making
When would you use a scoping research review?
Identify key gaps in knowledge base of literature and answer broad questions
When would you use a realist research review?
To understand complex interventions and how they work
What works for whom, under which circumstances
When would you use an integrative research review?
When you want to be exhaustive and maximize number of studies involved to examine nature and extent of literature
When would you use a qualitative systematic research review?
When you want to look for themes/constructs across qualitative studies and bring together data to form a new interpretation
When would you use an umbrella research review?
When you wish to do a review of reviews. Aim is to pull message from a number of reviews where there is competing interventions that have been reviewed
