CNUR 209 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Grounded Theory, Ethnography, Statistical Hypothesis Testing

• School: University of Regina
• Department: Collaborative Nursing Program
• Course: CNUR 209
• Professor: Leonie

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Research problems, research questions, hypotheses, steps in quantitative and qualitative research . Research problem: what is wrong: an enigmatic, perplexing, or troubling condition, any concern in your professional practice, among patient, population, topic you would like to address, investigate, or study, whether descriptively or experimentally, a call for research proposals. Research problems and paradigms understanding of a poorly understood phenomenon: sources of research problems, clinical experiences, nursing literature, social issues, theory, suggestions from external source (ex. Research questions: to formulate your research question, be, relationships among variables, pico. In qualitative studies : grounded theory: process question, phenomenology: meaning questions, ethnography: cultural description questions. Specific: pico for quantitative questions patient, problem. Intervention, assessment, therapy: context, comparison, control, outcome, picot, patient, problem. Intervention, assessment, therapy: context, comparison, control, outcome, time, piot for qualitative question. Issue of interest: patient, population, outcome, time. Statement of research purpose: why: summary of an overall goal.