Main description:

First book to show how qualitative and quantitative methods in health and social care are used in practice.

Ideal for helping students make an informed decision on what research methods to use for their research projects.

Relates social research methodology to social research studies done in the real world and demonstrates the link between research and changing and improving practice.

Ideal for students at level 4 to 6.

Contents:

1. Introduction. 2. Using mixed methods in health and social care research. 3. Inclusive research - as a strategy for improving inclusive communities. 4. Using online surveys to capture health and social care data. 5. Using interviews and focus groups to investigate the effectiveness of mentoring in a UK healthcare trust. 6. Making sense of complexity: using thematic analysis to understand the role of the foster carer. 7. Participatory approaches to building knowledge. 8. Dialogical narrative analysis of practice-based educators' stories of student placements. 9. An ethnographic approach to researching the communication of people with severe learning disabilities 10. Exploring perceptions of professional expertise within a health and social care context. 11. Health and social care inequalities in relation to ethnicity; British South Asian men and nursing careers.