What is mixed method research? integration of qualitative and quantitative data within a single study or coordinated cluster of studies
What is a paradigm often associated with mm research and what does it do? pragmatism The research question should drive the design of the inquiry (not a forced "e...
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What is mixed method research? ✅integration of qualitative and quantitative data
within a single study or coordinated cluster of studies
What is a paradigm often associated with mm research and what does it do?
✅pragmatism
The research question should drive the design of the inquiry (not a forced "either-or"
choice)
Advantages of mm research ✅complementarity
Practicality
Enhanced validity
Complementarity ✅quan and qual compliment each other
Using both can avoid limitations of using only one
Practicality ✅practical to use the methods that are best suited for answering difficult
research questions
Enhanced validity ✅validity (accuracy) of your research increases when you use
different methods of research to reach the same outcome
Applications of mm research ✅instrument development
Intervention development
Hypothesis generation
Theory building and testing
Explication
Instrument development ✅researchers gather qualitative data and then do quantitative
testing
Ex. Faces pain scale and numeric rating scale
Intervention development ✅qualitative research plays an important role in developing
promising nursing interventions that are then tested for efficacy
-reliant on mm to develop, refine, test and understand intervention
Hypothesis generation ✅insights generated within qualitative studies can be tested
and confirmed in larger samples using quantitative methods
Theory building and testing ✅using both qual and quan can strengthen the validity and
framework for clinical work and future research
, Explication ✅qualitative data are sometimes used to determine the meaning of
quantitative descriptions or relationships
(why they are related)
Mm design concern: sequencing ✅qualitative comes first, quantitative comes first, both
simultaneously
When qualitative and quantitative data are collected at the same time ✅concurrent
Sequential designs ✅qual and quan are collected in phases
Mm design concern: prioritization ✅deciding on which approach to prioritize
Equal status ✅give them equal weight
Qual/quan
Dominant status ✅one method receives a higher priority (more commonly seen)
Qual/quan
Quan/qual
Convergent parallel design (triangulation design) ✅concurrent and equal weighting
Quan/qual collected simultaneously with equal weighting priority
What is the goal of convergent parallel design ✅to converge on "the truth" regarding a
problem or phenomenon by allowing limitations of one approach to be offset by
strengths of another
Explanatory design ✅quan --> qual
Either can have stronger priority
Quan-qual or quan-qual
Data from second phase (qualitative) is used to build on or explain the data from the
first phase (quantitative)
Which method can be priority in the explanatory and exploratory design ✅either can be
given stronger priority
Suitable when results are challenging and complex to interpret
Exploratory design ✅qual --> quan
First phase (qual): exploration of a poorly understood phenomenon
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