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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.
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When Research Goes Off the Rails Why It Happens and What You Can Do About It
by Streiner, David L.; Sidani, SourayaFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2009-10-08
Publisher(s): The Guilford Press
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Author Biography
David L. Streiner is Senior Scientist at the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care and Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto.
Souraya Sidani is Canada Research Chair, Tier One, in Health Interventions Design and Evaluation at Ryerson University in Toronto.
Table of Contents
| A Guide to the Contents of Each Chapter | p. xjj |
| Going Off the Rails: An Introduction | p. 1 |
| Ethics Approval | p. 17 |
| When Mountains Move Too Slowly | p. 21 |
| The Ethics of Sex Research on the Internet | p. 27 |
| When Safeguards Become Straitjackets: How Ethics Research Board Requirements Might Contribute to Ethical Dilemmas in Studies with Marginalized Populations | |
| Going Off the Rails for "Love or Money": implementation Issues Related to Payment of Research Participants in an Addiction-Research Project | p. 43 |
| Accessin the Participants | p. 53 |
| Frailty, Thy Name Is Macho | p. 57 |
| Power in Numbers: Research with Families in Long-Term Care | p. 65 |
| Getting the Wrong Gatekeeper | p. 74 |
| Breaking into Court | p. 81 |
| The RDC Archipelago | p. 88 |
| Recruitment and Retention | p. 97 |
| Small Colleges and Small n's | p. 101 |
| Mitigating the Impact of External Forces | p. 106 |
| A Trip to the School of Hard Knocks: Recruiting Participants from Health Service Agencies for Qualitative Studies of Aging | p. 113 |
| All Aboard!: Using Community Leaders to Keep Clinical Researchers on Track | p. 119 |
| Changing Horses in Midstream: Transforming a Study to Address Recruitment Problems | p. 130 |
| When Cost Meets Efficiency: Rethinking Ways to Sample a Rare Population | p. 136 |
| The Story Is in the Numbers | p. 147 |
| Strategies for Retaining Participants in Longitudinal Research with Economically Disadvantaged and Ethnically Diverse Samples | p. 152 |
| Culturally Specific Strategies for Retention and Adherence to Physical Activity Interventions in Hispanic Women | p. 161 |
| Study Implementation | p. 169 |
| When a Beautiful Intervention Meets Ugly Reality: Implementing an Intervention in the Real World | p. 171 |
| When Saving Blood Goes Wrong | p. 177 |
| PDA = Pretty Darned Awful: The Trials and Tribulations of Running Trials of PDAs | p. 183 |
| When Sugar Is Not So Sweet: Camera Shyness and Intentional Cointervention Almost Derail a Study | p. 191 |
| Placebo Problems: Power and Persecution, or Paranoia? | p. 199 |
| Data Collection | p. 207 |
| Revisiting Traditional Survey Methodology to Recruit and Survey Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Older Adults | p. 211 |
| Technology: Help or Hindrance? | p. 219 |
| Hoist on Our Own Postcard | p. 223 |
| On the Finer Points of Handling Googlies: Reflections on Hits, Near Misses, and Fuil-Blown Swings at the Air in Large, Population-Based Studies Involving School, Parents, and Children | p. 228 |
| Pets, Pies, and Videotape: Conducting In-Home Observational Research with Late-Life Intergenerational Families | p. 239 |
| Underfunded but Not Undone | p. 248 |
| Community-Based Participatory Research: A Lesson in Humility | p. 254 |
| Where Did All the Bodies Go? | p. 263 |
| Measures for Improving Measures | p. 268 |
| Data Analysis | p. 281 |
| Drowsing Over Data: When Less Is More | p. 283 |
| Bigger Is Not Always Better: Adventures in the World of Survey Data Analysis | p. 290 |
| Taking Aim at a Moving Target: When a Study Changes in the Middle | p. 299 |
| Lack of Normative Data as an Obstacle to Neuropsychological Assessment | p. 304 |
| These Data Do Not Compute | p. 309 |
| Avoiding Data Disasters and Other Pitfalls | p. 320 |
| When Interpretation Goes Awry: The impact of Interim Testing | p. 327 |
| Collaboration | p. 335 |
| What Happened to Cooperation and Collaboration? | p. 337 |
| Presto! It's Gone: When a Study Ceases to Exist Right before Your Eyes | p. 344 |
| Building Stakeholder Capacity to Enhance Effectiveness in Participatory Program Evaluation | p. 352 |
| Final Thoughts | p. 359 |
| Sometimes It Is the Researcher, Not the Research That Goes "Off the Rails": The Value of Clear, Complete, and Precise Information in Scientific Reports | p. 361 |
| Final Thoughts: A Healthy Dose of Realism | p. 369 |
| Index | p. 379 |
| About the Editors | p. 389 |
| Contributors | p. 391 |
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