An Introduction to Psychiatric ResearchCUP Archive, 29 juil. 1988 - 257 pages Today, professionals treating psychiatric patients are being required to demonstrate quantitatively to the public & to government, insurance, & accrediting agencies that their treatment is based on patients' needs, is appropriate, & is cost-effective. An Introduction to Psychiatric Research provides tools for complying with these demands as well as for undertaking other sorts of scientific inquiries. |
Table des matières
Steps in conducting research | 8 |
Making quantifiable hypotheses | 14 |
The arithmetic of descriptive statistics | 20 |
Writing up results a few tips on style | 27 |
Further steps needed in conducting research | 32 |
Design the study | 39 |
Make up datacollection forms | 45 |
Research to develop measuring instruments | 52 |
Observed relation research | 93 |
A More simple statistics | 116 |
46 | 138 |
Causal relation research | 141 |
the functional level equation | 172 |
Research ethics | 214 |
Summary and conclusions | 223 |
48 | 236 |
Deciding on clinical test instruments | 58 |
A Simple statistics | 83 |
45 | 88 |
Glossary | 242 |
| 250 | |
Expressions et termes fréquents
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