Research methods for massage and holistic therapies /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hymel, Glenn M.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: St. Louis, Mo. : Elsevier Mosby, [2006]
Series:Mosby's massage career development series.
Subjects:
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.