Types of Nursing

Research
BSN 3A-Group 2
Bolalin, Rogela
Bolivar, Maria Andrea
Bonnevie, Helouice
Bricia, Franze
Bronzal, Tiffany Raine
Nursing Research
• Refers to the use of systematic, controlled, empirical and critical
investigation in attempting to discover or confirm facts that
relate to specific problem or question about the practice of
nursing.
• Seeks to find new knowledge that can eventually be applied in
providing nursing care to patients.
• It also develops knowledge about health and promotion of
health over the lifespan, care of person with health problems and
disabilities to respond effectively to actual potential health
problems.
Types of Nursing Research
1) Basic Research vs Applied Research
• Advance research Seeks to advance the frontiers of knowledge
by creating practical solutions for specific problems while basic
research is an approach to research that seeks to expand
knowledge in a field of study; applied research is solution-driven
while basic research is knowledge-specific.
2) Experimental vs Non-experimental
• Experimental research is the types of research that uses a
scientific approach towards manipulating one or more control
variables and measuring their defect on the dependent variables,
while non-experimental research is the type of research that
does not involve the manipulation of control variables;
experimental allows the manipulation of control variables while
non-experimental doesn’t.
3) Qualitative and Quantitative
• Qualitative research is a multimethod focus, involving an
interpretive naturalistic approach to its subject matter which
means that qualitative researchers study things in their natural
settings, attempting to make sense of, interpret, phenomena in
terms of the meanings in people.
• Quantitative research involves the process of objectively
collecting and analyzing numerical data to describe, predict or
control variables of interest.
• Quantitative is about quantities (numbers) while qualitative is
descriptive.
4) Mixed Method Research
• Mixed method research researchers collect and analyze both
qualitative and quantitative data within the same study. It draws
on potential strengths of both qualitative and quantitative
methods.
5) Cross-sectional vs Longitudinal Research
• Longitudinal study, researchers repeatedly examine the same
individuals to detect any changes that might occur over a period
of time.
• A cross-sectional study is a type of research in which you collect
data from many different individuals at a single point in time. In
cross-sectional research, you observe variables without
influencing them.
• In a cross-sectional study you collect data from a population at a
specific point in time while in a longitudinal study you repeatedly
collect data from the same sample over an extended period of
time.
Reference/s:

• https://www.slideshare.net/aneez103/types-of-nursing-research-
52487150
• https://www.formpl.us/blog/basic-applied-
research#:~:text=Applied%20research%20is%20a%20research,basic%
20research%20is%20knowledge%2Dspecific
• https://www.simplypsychology.org/qualitative-quantitative.html
• https://ebn.bmj.com/content/20/3/74
• https://www.scribbr.com/methodology/cross-sectional-study/