Reading Research: A User-Friendly Guide for Health Professionals

This practical beginner-level introduction to health sciences research is ideal for both students and health professionals. It assumes the reader has little or no experience with analyzing published research, and provides guidelines for reading and understanding research articles, as well as information about important elements of published research (e.g., research methods, common terminology, data analysis and results). The book also briefly discusses how research results can be used and applied to practice.

Concise overview of health sciences-related research - a fast read for students looking to maximize study time

Easy-to-read conversational style - simplified style encourages students

Helpful, succinct tips - useful, practical advice for those who are new to the subject

An accompanying website provides up-to-date links for relevant research projects and other research-related sites, and offers Reader's Companion Worksheets

Expanded Chapters 2 and 3 now include more on mixed method research

New information about systematic reviews including an example of how to read a forest plot

Descriptive and interpretive phenomenology is explained.

NEW: Includes brief discussion about using social media to find research

NEW: Interactive forms on accompanying website