Research methods for massage and holistic therapies /
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| Language: | English |
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St. Louis, Mo. :
Elsevier Mosby,
[2006]
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| Series: | Mosby's massage career development series.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / by Leon Chaitow
- Foreword / by Sandy Fritz
- Introduction : guiding questions for this book
- Why research and why now?
- Conceptual framework for understanding the research process
- Research continuum : a deductive approach to viewing the research process
- Overview of the true experimental randomized controlled trial research method
- More focused view of the true experimental/randomized controlled trial research method
- Quantitative research category
- Difference-oriented research strategy
- Association-oriented research strategy
- Descriptive-oriented research strategy
- Qualitative and integrative research categories : options beyond the quantitative
- Qualitative research category and its contextual/interpretive-oriented research strategy
- Integrative research category and its synthesis-oriented research strategy
- Advancing the massage therapy research agenda
- Advancing massage therapy research competencies : recent context and projected directions
- appendix A. Electronic litarature searching : sources and strategies
- appendix B. Ethical principles governing research in the biomedical and behavioral sciences
- appendix C. Research report format and stylistic requirements
- appendix D. Measurement and statistics as research tools
- Glossary.