Week 2 Flashcards
What are other names for ‘paradigm’?
- research traditions
- world views
- methodologies
What is a paradigm?
- patterns of belief and general assumptions
- set of physilogical underpinnings
- provide viewpoint, process and principles
What paradigms are used in nursing research?
Quantitative and qualitative
What are the ‘Quantative’ paradigms?
- positivism (empiricism)
- post-positivism
What are the ‘qualitative’ paradigms?
Interpretive
Constructivism
Critical social theory
What term is used to describe something measures quantitively?
Objectively
What is a positivist viewpoint?
View point accepted if it can be objectively measured
What are the advantages of positive paradigm Quantative research?
- generalisability
- description and prediction
- objective
- verifiable
What are the limitations for positive paradigms quantative research?
- context stripping
- explanation needed
- value free
- truth rarely established
What are the advantages for interpretivist paradigm qualitative research?
- articulates voices if participants
- subjective
- multiple realities
- seeks understanding
What are the limitations for interpretivist paradigm qualitative research?
- ignore risk factors
- less objective
- less explanatory theories limited
What is Quantative research!
Using numerical data
What is qualitative data?
Using words as data
What are the 5 stages of Quantative research?
- Research Question
- Hypothesis
- Research Design
- Data Collection
- Analysis of Data
What is a research question?
The starting point - a question arisen
What is the hypothesis?
- overall aim of the study
- a prediction about the relationship of factors being studied
- cause & effect
What us a null hypothesis?
- no difference between factors being studied
- at the beginning of the research this is assumed to be true
What is a variable?
Factors being investigated.
What us a dependant variable?
What is measured.
What is the i dependant variable?
What is changed.
Methodology in research is?
A set of principles that direct research
What are the features of Quantitive research?
Standersized
Aims, objectives, hypothesis, have to be stated
Data collected must be measurable
What is not a result of Quantative research?
Results must be in words
What is a case control study?
Observational study
What is not one if the Bradford Hill criteria for causation?
Triangulation if relationship
