Scholarship Flashcards
What does research lead to?
- leadership
- strong ethics/ awareness of legalities
- business considerations
- credentialing and life long learning
Ethical Perspective of EBP
- beneficence= provide best care. Need to discern reliable studies from those that are less sound
- professional development= advanced practitioner distinction=life long learning
Legal Perspective of EBP
-if practitioner must justify Tx best to have used as well researched technique
Ex. If pt falls during Tx, you have EBP to protect you
Financial perspective of EBP
- reimbursement (insurance)
- practices supported by research
- current practice
Scholarship of Discovery
Conducting original scientific research
-contributes to the knowledge base of OT
Scholarship of integration
Seeking out new insights from existing original research, both within OT and across disciplines, by integrating, interpreting, and synthesizing in a search for new patterns of connection
-contributes to the formation of new perspectives and theories in OT
Scholarship of application
Linking theory and practice/ linking academia and service provision
-use of knowledge and insights gained from scholarship of discovery/integration to address societal problems, OT assessments or interventions, or classroom teaching of client’s or OT practitioners in a practical way
Scholarship of teaching and learning
Systematic study based on recognition of complementary mature of teaching and learning
-contributes to high quality teaching of OT students and public sharing o knowledge of the profession
What can the OTA do with research studies?
- read research publication
- understand implication for practice
- participate in data collection
- notice trends in interventions
- raise questions
Data
- info gathered
- analyzed to support/refute hypothesis/theory
Independent Variable
- influences study’s outcome
- attribute IV: pre-existing characteristic (Ex. gender)
- active IV: given to participants and is applied (Ex. Intervention)
Control Group
Group of participants that don’t receive or have the independent variable
Dependent variable
Outcome or change that is expected as a result of the independent variable
Extraneous/confounding variable hypothesis
- variable that is not considered in the study, but has potential influence in the outcome
- statement supported by educated deduction and reliable info; predicts a relationship between variables or outcome of investigation
Internal validity
Dependent variable is a result of the independent variable
Levels of variable
- variations on a a variable’s category
- ex. Hx of a CVA: variable might be Left/Right CVA
Random selection
- increases diversity in your study
- not based on characteristics
- no bias
Reliability
ability of a measure to achieve the same results over time
Sample
Subgroup on the population, randomly selected so it represents the population
-more diverse
Significance
Statistically the study results indicate that the independent variable in all likelihood, is related to the dependent variable
Validity
Study findings are correct
Variable
Participant characteristics
Researcher ethics
- researcher conduct
- informed consent
- rights of participants
- Human Subjects Review Committee/ Internal Review Board:review proposals and represents the agency that participants may be selected from
Quantitative Research
- uses data
- researcher is personally uninvolved
- unbiased
- hypothesis is formed
- can be consistently applied across time and circumstances
Quantitative Research steps:
- Hypothesis formed, literature review
- Protocol determined
- Research proposal reviewed by the appropriate board
- Participants selected, informed consent
- Study carried out per protocol
- Data analyzed
- Results are written up
Quantities Research Types
- descriptive studies: seeks to answer ? About a group
- correlation research:determines the extent to which 2+ phenomena occur
- experimental research: compares 2+ variable’s at the same time\
- single subject design: follows one subject over time with repeated measurement of the same variable with and without intervention
Qualitative Research
- explores experiences, the meaning, and interpretation
- evaluates themes that emerge throughout the process
Qualitative Research Types
- ethnographic research
- phenomenological research: understand and explain true life experiences of people as they understand them
- grounded theory: develops theory from analysis of gathered data
Qualitative Research Steps
- Areas of interest determined
- Participants selected
- Data gathered
- Data analysis
- establishing trust (validity): prolonged engagement, peer debriefing, member checking, triangulation
Quantitative vs qualitative
Quantitative: #’s and can be measured
Qualitative: description and can be observed
Research article contents
- abstract
- intro
- lit review
- methods
- results
- discussion
- references
P.I.C.O.T
- person, problem, pop. Of interest
- issue or intervention being considered
- comparison such as an alt intervention
- outcome that would be impacted by intervention by
- timeframe
