Understanding And Evaluating Research in Applied Clinical Settings

About this book

Clinically oriented professionals and students need to understand and evaluate the research and statistics in professional articles especially given todays emphasis on evidence-based practice. This book demonstrates how the research approach and design help determine the appropriate statistical analysis. Understanding and Evaluating Research in Applied and Clinical Settings features: short independent chapters that do not have to be read in order; a guide to understanding why a particular statistic was selected; an emphasis on effects sizes including measures of risk potency; numerous cross-disciplinary examples to illustrate the material; and methods to help determine practical and clinical significance and their relation to meta-analysis and evidence-based practice. This book is intended for practitioners and students in psychology education counseling mental and allied health nursing and medicine and as a text for courses on understanding research methods and statistics.