Mixed Methods in Health Research

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This core PhD nursing research course gives an overview of the design and conduct of mixed methods research, in which both qualitative and quantitative data are collected, analyzed, and integrated within a single study, enabling a multi-faceted understanding of nursing phenomena. This course will review the assumptions and mental models that inform both approaches, and the ways in which qualitative and quantitative questions, methods, analytic approaches, and dissemination can be integrated. This course will highlight the main five designs of mixed methods in the social, behavioral and health sciences: (1) explanatory sequential; (2) exploratory sequential; (3) embedded; (4) convergent parallel; and (5) transformative. Current literature and guidelines from the National Institutes of Health will serve as primary resources. The course will not address advanced statistical analysis methods.