Written for students and professionals in psychology, education, counseling, mental health, nursing, and medicine with some backgroung in research and statistics, this integrated approach to quantitative research methods, data analysis, and article evaluation concentrates on materials describing evidence-based clinical practice. In 38 discrete articles, coverage begins with basic information on the research framework, sample studies, and the ethics of human research and publishing. Subsequenst topics include variables and their measurement, quantitative research approaches including the quasi-experimental, evaluation of methods and design, inferential statistics and their interpretation, and the selection and interpretation of specific statistics such as the chi-square test and accompanying effect size indices. Chapters on applications include such topics as meta-analysis and clinical significance, and materials on the evaluation of research validity include evaluations of four sample articles. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Clinically oriented professionals and students need to understand and evaluate the research and statistics in professional articles, especially given today's emphasis on evidence-based practice. This book consists of updates of 33 previously published articles from the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, as well as an introduction and a conclusion on how to analyze and evaluate research articles. The book demonstrates how the research approach and design help determine the appropriate statistical analysis.
Understanding and Evaluating Research in Applied and Clinical Settings features:
*Short, independent, chapters that do not have to be read in order.
*A guide to understanding why a particular statistic was selected.
*An emphasis on effects sizes including measures of risk potency.
*Numerous cross-disciplinary examples to illustrate the material.
*Methods to help determine practical and clinical significance and their relation to meta-analysis and evidence-based practice.
This book is intended for practitioners and students in psychology, education, counseling, mental and allied health, nursing, and medicine, and as a text for courses on understanding research methods and statistics. Exposure to research and statistics is assumed.
In this book, the authors provide an integrated approach to quantitative research methods and data analysis for consumers of research, especially those involved in practical or clinical applications.
Clinically oriented professionals and students need to understand and evaluate the research and statistics in professional articles, especially given today's emphasis on evidence-based practice. This book demonstrates how the research approach and design help determine the appropriate statistical analysis.
Understanding and Evaluating Research in Applied and Clinical Settings features:
*short, independent, chapters that do not have to be read in order;
*a guide to understanding why a particular statistic was selected;
*an emphasis on effects sizes including measures of risk potency;
*numerous cross-disciplinary examples to illustrate the material; and
*methods to help determine practical and clinical significance and their relation to meta-analysis and evidence-based practice.
This book is intended for practitioners and students in psychology, education, counseling, mental and allied health, nursing, and medicine, and as a text for courses on understanding research methods and statistics.
Clinically oriented professionals and students need to understand and evaluate the research and statistics in professional articles, especially given today's emphasis on evidence-based practice. This book demonstrates how the research approach and design help determine the appropriate statistical analysis.
Understanding and Evaluating Research in Applied and Clinical Settings features:
*short, independent, chapters that do not have to be read in order;
*a guide to understanding why a particular statistic was selected;
*an emphasis on effects sizes including measures of risk potency;
*numerous cross-disciplinary examples to illustrate the material; and
*methods to help determine practical and clinical significance and their relation to meta-analysis and evidence-based practice.
This book is intended for practitioners and students in psychology, education, counseling, mental and allied health, nursing, and medicine, and as a text for courses on understanding research methods and statistics.
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