Clinical

Our clinical nursing articles aim to inform and educate nurse practitioners and students. This is achieved through the publication of peer-reviewed, evidence-based, relevant and topical articles.

Methodological and ethical issues related to qualitative telephone interviews on...

Aim To explore the methodological and ethical issues of conducting qualitative telephone...

Study of irritable bowel syndrome and co-existing psychological illness

Aim To assess the feasibility of using qualitative methods to explore psychological...

Reflections on the added value of using mixed methods in the SCAPE study

Aim To reflect on the added value that a mixed method design gave in a large...

Insights into the use and complexities of the Policy Delphi technique

Aim To describe the Policy Delphi technique and show how it was used in a research...

Barriers to questionnaire completion: understanding the AIDS/HIV patient’s perspective

Aim To determine what encourages or discourages AIDS/HIV patients from completing...

Qualitative interviewing: methodological challenges in Arab settings

Aim To explore some of the main methodological challenges faced by interviewers in...

Specific design features of an interpretative phenomenological analysis study

Aim Report of an innovative use of interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA)...

Engaging men with penile cancer in qualitative research: reflections from an interview-...

Aim To explore the challenges of engaging men with penile cancer in qualitative...

Electronic surveys: how to maximise success

Aim To draw on the researchers’ experience of developing and distributing a UK-wide...

Creating communicative spaces in an action research study

Aim To argue that creating communicative spaces in an action research study gave...

Congruence between the Indian Diabetes Risk Score and Australian Type 2 Diabetes Risk...

Aim To evaluate the performance of the simplified Indian Diabetes Risk Score (IDRS...

Development of a factorial survey to explore restricting a child’s movement for a...

Aim To report on the development of a factorial survey to explore nurses’...

An action research approach to practice, service and legislative change

Aims To describe the action research approach taken to engage a multidisciplinary...

‘To be honest, I haven’t even thought about it’ – recruitment in small-scale,...

Aim To review strategies for successful recruitment in small-scale, qualitative...

Data-analysis issues in a phenomenographic investigation of information literacy in...

Aim To explore two contrasting methods of phenomenographic data analysis.

The barriers to and benefits of conducting Q-sorts in the classroom

Aim To outline the barriers to and benefits of using Q methodology in a classroom....

Lessons learned about art-based approaches for disseminating knowledge

Aim To present a case example of using an arts-based approach and the development of an art...

Online social networks for patient involvement and recruitment in clinical research

Aim To review current literature and discuss the potential of online social...

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