Full Description
This book reviews classical epidemiological and clinical research studies, with a focus on aging. Chapters cover methodological topics like the scientific method, ethics, and the consequences of certain exclusion criteria and the work includes a look at clinical concepts like multi morbidity, frailty and functionality. The authors reveal the issues and challenges for researchers of age and aging, and also consider the translation of scientific knowledge, from basic to clinical and from clinical to public policies of social and health care.The focus on aging is what gives this book its valuable perspective on research methodology. All authors have considerable experience in aging, geriatrics or gerontology and each chapter includes both a theoretical framework and practical examples of studies in aging. Readers will discover study designs that are reviewed for basic structure, main flaws and advantages and are analyzed for specific conditions and variables regarding aging.This text is suited to both health care professionals caring for older adults and researchers who are new to research in aging. It is relevant across the disciplines, including medicine, psychology, social sciences and dentistry and it supports learning with graphs and figures.
Contents
PREFACE INTRODUCTIONMario Ulises Perez-Zepeda, Carmen Garcia-Pena, Victoria E. Arango-Lopera and Luis Miguel Gutierrez-Robledo THE SCIENTIFIC METHODRuben Fossion and Leonardo Zapata-Fonseca BIOMEDICAL RESEARCHEunice Lopez-Munoz DESCRIPTIVE STUDIESMario Ulises Perez-Zepeda and Jocabed Rocha-BalcazarQUALITATIVE STUDIESTeresa Juarez-Cedillo, Edgar Jarillo-Soto, Sergio Sanchez-Garcia and Carmen Garcia-Pena CASE-CONTROL STUDIESSergio Sanchez-Garcia, Erika Heredia-Ponce, Pablo Cruz-Hervert, Angel Cardenas-Bahena, Laura Barbara Velazquez-Olmedo and Carmen Garcia-Pena LONGITUDINAL STUDIESCarmen Garcia-Pena, Claudia Espinel-Bermudez, Laura del Pilar Torres-Arreola, Mario Ulises Perez-Zepeda and Luis Miguel Gutierrez-Robledo CLINICAL TRIALSMario Ulises Perez-Zepeda, Carmen Garcia-Pena, Victoria E. Arango-Lopera, Elisa Zengarini and Luis Miguel Gutierrez-RobledoMIXED-METHODS STUDIESElias Varga-Amezcua SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META ANALYSISMiguel Angel Villasis-Keever and Mario Enrique Rendon-MaciasTECHNOLOGY AND AGINGJesus Favela and Luis A. Castro Elizabeth Caro-LopezINDEX
