lesson 2 Flashcards
form ‘‘basic documents’’ such as records of patient’s admissions, birth dates, and discharges
raw data
‘indicating number of patients admitted or discharged by year or month’ or total number of deliveries
tubular data
these are gathered through actual observation and recording of events
use of observers’ data
this observer does not share the same milleu with the subjects and IS NOT A MEMBER OF THE GROUP or subjects
non-participant observers
the ‘observer identifies herself’ and her task of conducting research and informing the subjects the types of data
overt non-participant observers
‘the observer does not identify herself’ to the subjects
covert non-participant observer
the ‘observer share the same milleu’ and is better acquianted with the subjects
partipant observer
the ‘observer is involved with the subjects and HAS FULL KNOWLEDGE ‘ and AWARENESS of the subjects
overt participant observer
the ‘observer interacts with the subjects’ and observes their behavior WITHOUT THEIR KNOWLEDGE
covert participant observer
when the researcher “has prior knowledge” of the phenomenon of interest
structured observer
the research attempts to describe the events or behavior ‘with NO PRECONCEIVED IDEAS’ of what will be seen or obsedved
unstructured observation
A specially prepared document intended to collect data is called
Instruments
A series of QUESTIONNAIRES to ‘gather a consensus of options and formation FROM A GROUP OF EXPERTS’
delphi technique
questions are presented to a PANEL of informed individuals in a scientific field
Classic delphi
uses INTERVIEW OR FOCUS GROUPS to gather opinion on certain issues or trends
Modified delphi
