LibGuides: Nursing 465: Types of Research within Qualitative and Quantitative

Components of Quantative (Empirical) Research Papers

Statement of purpose: what was studied and why
Methodology: experimental group, control group, variables, test conditions, test subjects, etc.
Results: usually numeric and presented in tables or graphs, often with statistical analysis.
Conclusions drawn from the results
References and sometimes footnotes
Author credentials

Hint: The abstract (summary) of a research article is the first place to check for most of the components above. The abstract appears both in a database record and at the beginning of the article.

Types of Quantitative Research

Four (4) main types of quantitative design: descriptive, correlational, quasi-experimental, experimental

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Types of Qualitative Research

Main Types of Qualitative Research

Case study	Attempts to shed light on a phenomenon by studying in-depth a single case example of the phenomenon. The case may be an individual, an event, a group, or an institution.
Grounded theory	Attempts to explain the social and psychological processes that characterize an event or situation.
Phenomenology	Describes the structures of experience as they present themselves to consciousness, without recourse to theory, deduction, or assumptions from other disciplines.
Ethnography	Focuses on the sociology of meaning through close field observation of sociocultural phenomena. Typically, the ethnographer focuses on a community.
Historical	Systematic collection and objective evaluation of data related to past occurrences in order to test hypotheses concerning causes, effects, or trends of these events that may help to explain present events and anticipate future events. (Gay, 1996)

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