García-Peña / Gutiérrez-Robledo / Pérez-Zepeda Aging Research - Methodological Issues

2015
ISBN: 978-3-319-18323-7
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 149 Seiten, eBook

This book reviews classical epidemiological and clinical research studies, with a focus on aging. Chapters cover methodological topics like the scientific method, ethics, and the consequences of certain exclusion criteria and the work includes a look at clinical concepts like multi morbidity, frailty and functionality. The authors reveal the issues and challenges for researchers of age and aging, and also consider the translation of scientific knowledge, from basic to clinical and from clinical to public policies of social and health care.The focus on aging is what gives this book its valuable perspective on research methodology. All authors have considerable experience in aging, geriatrics or gerontology and each chapter includes both a theoretical framework and practical examples of studies in aging. Readers will discover study designs that are reviewed for basic structure, main flaws and advantages and are analyzed for specific conditions and variables regarding aging.This text is suited to both health care professionals caring for older adults and researchers who are new to research in aging. It is relevant across the disciplines, including medicine, psychology, social sciences and dentistry and it supports learning with graphs and figures.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

García-Peña, Carmen

Gutiérrez-Robledo, Luis Miguel

Pérez-Zepeda, Mario Ulises

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PREFACE INTRODUCTIONMario Ulises Pérez-Zepeda, Carmen García-Peña, Victoria E. Arango-Lopera and Luis Miguel Gutiérrez-Robledo THE SCIENTIFIC METHODRubén Fossion and Leonardo Zapata-Fonseca BIOMEDICAL RESEARCHEunice Lopez-Muñoz DESCRIPTIVE STUDIESMario Ulises Pérez-Zepeda and Jocabed Rocha-BalcázarQUALITATIVE STUDIESTeresa Juárez-Cedillo, Edgar Jarillo-Soto, Sergio Sánchez-García   and Carmen García-Peña CASE-CONTROL STUDIESSergio Sánchez-García, Érika Heredia-Ponce, Pablo Cruz-Hervert, Ángel Cárdenas-Bahena, Laura Bárbara Velázquez-Olmedo and Carmen García-Peña LONGITUDINAL STUDIESCarmen García-Peña, Claudia Espinel-Bermúdez, Laura del Pilar Torres-Arreola, Mario Ulises Pérez-Zepeda and Luis Miguel Gutiérrez-Robledo CLINICAL TRIALSMario Ulises Pérez-Zepeda, Carmen García-Peña, Victoria E. Arango-Lopera, Elisa Zengarini and Luis Miguel Gutiérrez-RobledoMIXED-METHODS STUDIESElías Varga-Amezcua SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META ANALYSISMiguel Ángel Villasís-Keever and Mario Enrique Rendón-MacíasTECHNOLOGY AND AGINGJesús Favela and Luis A. Castro TRANSLATION OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGEElizabeth Caro-LópezINDEX