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Nursing: Nurses Caring Behaviors towards Patients Undergoing Chemotherapy in Greece
The justification for using a mixed-method approach for the selected article is to see whether the results from both quantitative (cross-sectional survey) and qualitative methods (focus group) complement each other. The participants point of view was to be observed, which was analyzed using two methods to ensure the findings if one method corroborated with another or not.
Since the purpose of the article is to explore the caring behaviors that nurses perceive are significant for cancer chemotherapy patients in Greece, the design in terms of the purpose of the research article is inclusive of both quantitative and qualitative methods. First, the results from the cross-sectional survey were used to check whether the second results occurred from focus groups.
Priority and sequence of methods are arranged, so that survey questions help gather demographic data such as gender, age, family status, educational background, and experience in nursing (Karlou et al., 2018). These factors supported understanding the prevalence of caring nature by the nurses towards their patients and their international presence for human care. Afterward, focus groups helped to measure those non-verbal cues that were not included in the surveys. The observation of nonverbal communication is an integral part of the study to endorse the data gathered from...…outcomes in the cross-sectional study that might not have given authentic results. It could have produced difficulties in making associations with nurses demographic data with their caring opinions. Moreover, the limitation of grouping the sample in homogenous sects and dynamics might have produced biased results that might not have truly supported the findings of the first method in mixed-methods research.
The insights gained from mixing or integrating methods is that scholarly interaction with experts in their respective qualitative and quantitative fields is necessary to reflect upon the verified findings for the particular research question. Rich and thorough data collection are possible by integrating two research methods to present a…
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Karlou, C., Papadopoulou, C., Papathanassoglou, E., Lemonidou, C., Vouzavali, F., Zafiropoulou-Koutroubas, A., Katsaragakis, S. & Patiraki, E. (2018). Nurses’ caring behaviors towards patients undergoing chemotherapy in Greece: A mixed-methods study. Cancer Nursing, 00(0). https://doi.org/10.1097/NCC.0000000000000562
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