A case for case study research.

نویسنده

  • A P Colborn
چکیده

T he national and local heahh care debates regarding costs, efficacy, and regulation of services have challenged practitioners to demonsuate how their inrervenrions help patienrs. Determining how noninvasive, process-based inrervenrions help patienrs is a critical, but complex issue because success in rehabilitation is a culminating evenr represenring the efforts of an enrire health care team. Even more complex is the issue of how one conducts research because occupational therapy is integrated with other medical interventions. It is difficult, if not impossible, to link process-based inrervenrions with patienr performance using uaditional, experimenral research theories, designs, and methodologies. How then, may appropriate research be conducted? Occupational therapists know that the process of occupation is highly individualized, producing countless variables that affect patient performance. Some of these variables are easily placed into research designs, and others, such as the verbal or casual variables practitioners use during treatmenr to alter a course of occupation, are not. This article argues that the case study research strategy (Yin, 1993, 1994) embraces a framework especially appropriate for studying the variables comprising occupational therapy process that lead to patient performance and outcomes. Although established qualitative procedures such as ethnography or grounded theo ry research are relevant for the study of process, the case study approach uses language, concepts, and structure that emulate the scientific method familiar throughout traditional Ann Pas Colborn

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The American journal of occupational therapy : official publication of the American Occupational Therapy Association

دوره 50 7  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1996