Research Made Easy in Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 1e

Highly engaging and visually attractive, this clear and lively introduction to research is designed to help readers gain confidence and initiate small practice-based research projects. Providing a foundation in understanding research, it includes valuable information on how to get started, how to formulate useful and answerable research questions, a range of methodologies set in terms of their usefulness and limitations, strategies for seeing a project through completion, and writing up the results. Pitfalls and pointers are also highlighted along the way.

• Provides a realistic and clear introduction to understanding research
• Features simple explanation of all key concepts
• Offers clear guidance on how to formulate and initiate a project
• Includes a summary of pros and cons of each research methodology
• Provides examples relating to each method
• Includes checklists, summary boxes, warnings, tips and illustrations in abundance