This three part series of articles provides a brief overview of relevant research designs in nursing. The first article in the series presents the most frequently used quantitative research designs.

The quantitative descriptive research design is appropriate for the current study since it allows systematic collection and analysis of numerical data to describe university students' uses of ChatGPT ...

Descriptive (quantitative) evaluation of CESS (approach 1) reports data according to a predefined research design and selected criteria. From a normative perspective, this evaluation approach is ...

Descriptive Research Design: Capturing the “What” Correlational Research Design: Identifying Relationships Experimental Research Design: Testing Cause and Effect Exploratory Research Design: ...

Objectives This study aimed to investigate patients’ use of electronic Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (ePROMs) and understand the demographic and clinical factors that may be correlated with ...

You've got to stay aware of this to avoid skewed results. [2] Qualitative research provides rich, descriptive data, but it’s hard to put that into charts or graphs.

Introduction Choosing a research design can be difficult, as it must align with the posed research question. The first decision is to select a research paradigm—either the quantitative paradigm, which ...

Objectives Internationally, the 10-Group Classification System (TGCS) has been used to report caesarean section rates, but analysis of other outcomes is also recommended. We now aim to present the ...

Both inferential and descriptive research designs were used for this paper. The sample firms were selected by a proportional stratified sampling technique and from each sample firm, three respondents ...