Health intervention research : understanding research design & methods /

At a time when evidence-based practice is the standard bearer for understanding health behaviour, problems and interventions, ensuring that researchers know the appropriate designs and methods for their research is more paramount than ever. Health Intervention Research will equip those doing researc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Sidani, Souraya (Author)
Corporate Author:	Sage Publications
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London ; Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE Publications Ltd, 2015.
Subjects:	Medicine > Research > Methodology. Clinical trials. Research Design. Clinical Trials as Topic. Medicin > forskning > metodik. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

An overview of health intervention research
Validity in intervention research
Phases of intervention evaluation research
Experimental designs or randomized controlled trials : characteristic features
Experimental designs or randomized controlled trials : limitations
Advances in intervention evaluation designs : extensions of experimental designs
Advances in intervention evaluation designs : pragmatic and preference trials
Selection of participants
Retention of participants
Assignment of participant to study groups
Implementation of the intervention
Principles of outcome measurement and analysis.