Full Description
The aim of this book is to help physiotherapy and allied health sciences students to have an insight about research. It is an attempt to make the subject easy and comprehensible to the students. The book consists of three parts: Part 1 Introduction to Research; Part 2 Basic Statistics in Research; Part 3: Understanding and Publishing Research; Appendix with Question Bank and Glossary. It has 28 chapters which almost covers the syllabus in any Indian University for "Research" subject in physiotherapy and allied health sciences.
Contents
Part 1: Fundamentals of Research
1. Introduction to Research
2. Research in Physiotherapy
3. Research Process
4. Research Problem and Literature Review
5. Research Design
6. Sampling Design and Sampling Distributions
7. Measurement, Scaling, Data Collection and Processing
8. Ethics in Research
9. Research Reporting
10. Experimental and Non-experimental Research Designs
11. Analysis of Variance Study (ANOVA) Designs
12. Pilot Study in Research
13. Psychometric Properties of Tools
14. Qualitative Research
15. Survey Research
Part 2: Statistics in Research
16. Descriptive and Inferential Statistics in Research
17. Hypothesis Testing
18. Non-parametric and Parametric Tests
19. Correlation, Regression and Multivariate Analysis
20. Interpretation of Statistics
Part 3: Understanding and Publishing Research
21. Evidence-based Physiotherapy
22. Research Proposal
23. Understanding a Research Article
24. Methodology in Research Article
25. Critical Appraisal Tools
26. Critical Appraisal of Clinical Trials
27. Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
28. Journal Club
Question Bank
Further Reading
Glossary
Appendix
Index
