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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, Souraya

When Research Goes Off the Rails Why It Happens and What You Can Do About It

by: Streiner, David L.; Sidani, Souraya

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Copyright: 10/08/2009
Publisher: The Guilford Press

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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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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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