Social or health-related research
This often involves
- asking people about their quality of life or their beliefs, experiences, opinions and feelings; for example, to find out how a treatment or service affects users
- surveying people; for example, to establish how many people in a community or population are affected by a particular problem
- observing a situation; for example, communication between nurses and patients or multidisciplinary teams working together
- systematically reviewing existing research evidence to address a new set of research questions or to develop an understanding of methodological issues in a particular research area
No particular type of research is better than any other. Researchers select the type(s) that best answer the objectives/questions established in their research protocol.
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