When Research Goes Off the Rails: Why It Happens and What You Can Do About ItDavid L. Streiner, Souraya Sidani Few behavioral or health science studies proceed seamlessly. This refreshingly candid guide presents firsthand vignettes of obstacles on the bumpy road of research and offers feasible, easy-to-implement solutions. Contributors from a range of disciplines describe real-world problems at each stage of a quantitative or qualitative research project—from gaining review board approval to collecting and analyzing data—and discuss how these problems were resolved. A detailed summary chart helps readers quickly find material on specific issues, methods, and settings. Written with clarity and wit, the vignettes provide exemplars of critical thinking that researchers can apply when developing the operational plan of a study or when facing practical difficulties in a particular research phase. |
Contents
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How Ethics Research Board Requirements Might Contribute | 34 |
accessinG the PaRticiPants | 53 |
Getting the Wrong Gatekeeper | 74 |
RecRUitment and Retention | 97 |
Mitigating the Impact of External Forces | 106 |
Recruiting Participants from Health Service Agencies for Qualitative Studies of Aging | 113 |
Help or Hindrance? | 219 |
Reflections on Hits Near Misses and FullBlown Swings at the Air in Large | 228 |
Conducting InHome Observational Research with LateLife Intergenerational Families | 239 |
Underfunded but Not Undone | 248 |
A Lesson in Humility | 254 |
Where Did All the Bodies Go? | 263 |
data analysis | 281 |
Adventures in the World of Survey Data Analysis | 290 |
Using Community Leaders to Keep Clinical Researchers on Track | 119 |
Transforming a Study to Address Recruitment Problems | 130 |
Rethinking Ways to Sample a Rare Population | 136 |
The Story Is in the Numbers | 147 |
Culturally Specific Strategies for Retention and Adherence to Physical Activity Interventions in Hispanic Women | 161 |
stUdy imPlementation | 169 |
When Saving Blood Goes Wrong | 177 |
The Trials and Tribulations of Running Trials of PDAs | 183 |
Camera Shyness and Intentional Cointervention Almost Derail a Study | 191 |
Power and Persecution or Paranoia? | 199 |
data collection | 207 |
When a Study Changes in the Middle | 299 |
These Data Do Not Compute | 309 |
Avoiding Data Disasters and Other Pitfalls | 320 |
The Impact of Interim Testing | 327 |
collaboRation | 335 |
When a Study Ceases to Exist Right before Your Eyes | 344 |
Building Stakeholder Capacity to Enhance Effectiveness in Participatory Program Evaluation | 352 |
final thoUGhts | 359 |
A Healthy Dose of Realism | 369 |
About the Editors | 389 |
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When Research Goes Off the Rails: Why It Happens and What You Can Do About It David L. Streiner,Souraya Sidani No preview available - 2010 |
When Research Goes Off the Rails: Why It Happens and What You Can Do About It David L. Streiner,Souraya Sidani No preview available - 2009 |