If you have picked up this book, you are likely considering a grounded theory study, or are in
the process of undertaking research using this methodology. For beginning researchers …

Introduction While the placebo effect is increasingly recognised as a contributor to treatment
effects in clinical practice, the nocebo and other undesirable effects are less well explored …

This paper explores a number of commonly used methodologies and methods in qualitative
research, namely grounded theory, case study, phenomenology, ethnography and narrative …

The changing face of qualitative research has opened up discourses on the validity and
rigour of research processes and products. A current debate is whether the criteria …

Physiotherapy is arriving at a critical point in its history. Since World War I, physiotherapy
has been one of the largest allied health professions and the established provider of …

Although mixed methods research becomes increasingly popular, the issue that to what
extent qualitative and quantitative research methods can be combined is insufficiently …

Interviewing is an important and central data collection method in qualitative research.
Interviews can be conducted in many ways, however the boundaries between them are not …

Purpose A novel facet of the construction industry's (CI) digital transformation relates to the
rise of smart contracts, and the contribution of blockchain technology in this domain appears …

Introduction There has been a bias towards quantitative research approaches within manual
therapy, which may have resulted in a narrow understanding of manual therapy practice …

Large language models (LLMs), one application of artificial intelligence, experienced a
surge in users between 2022–2023. During this time, we were conducting online focus …