Practitioner research in health care : [the inside story

"Practitioner Research in Health Care" is concerned with the notion of "practitioner research", a developing field of research. It meets an ever-increasing demand for a research methodology text which recognizes the particular problems and issues of health care practitioners researching their own practice. The advantages and problems of "insider knowledge", and the characteristics of research roles and relationships, and how these can be integrated with practitioner responsibilities, are discussed and examples are used to illustrate these issues. This book should be of interest to all health care workers involved in research students and practitioners of midwifery, nursing, occupational therapy and clinical psychology and doctors. Front Matter....Pages i-xi Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Practitioner research in context....Pages 3-31 The nature of practitioner knowledge....Pages 32-45 Practitioner knowledge in practitioner research....Pages 46-61 The contribution of inductive and deductive theory to the development of practitioner knowledge....Pages 62-79 Front Matter....Pages 81-82 Researching into communicating with children — problems and issues of using a randomized controlled trial....Pages 85-98 Reflections on evaluating a course of family therapy....Pages 99-112 The health bus — a study of a developing project....Pages 115-129 A study of family networks and relationships in community midwifery....Pages 130-146 Patients’ feelings about patients....Pages 149-171 How adults with learning difficulties and their informal carers perceive professional practice....Pages 172-186 Front Matter....Pages 187-187 Evaluating and developing practitioner research....Pages 189-204 Back Matter....Pages 205-208 This book meets an increasing demand for a research methodology text which recognises the particular problems and issues of health care practitioners researching their own practice.