RECOMMENDED READING mixed/multi – method research
Appleton JV & King L. Journeying from the philosophical contemplation of constructivism to the
methodological pragmatics of health services research. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2002, 40:641-648
Barbour R The case for combining qualitative and quantitative approaches in health services research.
Health Services Research & Policy, 1999, 4(1):39-43
Creswell JW, Plano-Clark V. (2007) Designing and conducting mixed methods research. Sage: Thousand
Oaks, CA
Harrtis GS. More Than Method? A discussion of paradigm differences within mixed methods research.
Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 2011 XX(X) 1–17
Howe, K. Mixed methods, mixed causes? Qualitative Inquiry, 2010, 17(2):166-171
Johnson RB & Onwiegbuzie AJ. Mixed methods research: A research paradigm whose time has come.
Educational Researcher, 2004, 33(7): 14–26
Johnson RB & Onwiegbuzie AJ. Towards a definition of mixed methods research. Journal of mixed
methods research, 2007, 1(2): 112 – 133
Mason J. Mixing methods in a qualitatively driven way. Qualitative Research, 2006, 6(1): 9-25
Mason J Six strategies for mixing methods and linking data in social science research www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/realities/publications/workingpapers/4-2006-07-rlm-mason.pdf
McEvoy P & Richards D. A critical realist rationale for using a combination of quantitative and
qualitative methods. Journal of Research in Nursing, 2006, 11:66-78.
Moffatt S, White M, Mackintosh J & Howel D. Using quantitative and qualitative data in health services
research—what happens when mixed method findings conflict? BMC Health Services Research, 2006
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O'Cathain A, Murphy E, Nicholl J. Why, and how, mixed methods research is undertaken in health
services research: a mixed methods study. BMC Health Services Research 2007, 7:85
O’Cathain A, Murphy E, Nicholl J. Multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary or dysfunctional? Team working in
mixed methods research. Qualitative Health Research, 2008;18:1574-85
O’Cathain, A., Murphy, E. & Nicholl, J Three techniques for integrating data in mixed methods studies.
BMJ:2010, 341
Onwuegbuzie AJ, Johnson RB & Collins KMT. Call for mixed analysis: a philosophical framework for
combining qualitative and quantitative approaches. International Journal of Multiple Research
Approaches, 2009, 3:114-139.
Williams SJ. Is anybody there? Critical realism, chronic illness and the disability debate, Sociology of
Health and Illness, 1999, 21:797–819.
Exemplars:
Adamson J, Ben-Shlomo Y, Chaturvedi N, Donovan J. Exploring the impact of patient views on
‘appropriate’ use of services and help seeking: a mixed method study. British Journal of General
Practice 2009;59:496-502.
Adamson J, Gooberman-Hill R, Woolhead G, Donovan J: 'Questerviews': using questionnaires in qualitative interviews as a method of integrating qualitative and quantitative health services
research. Journal of Health Services Research & Policy 2004, 9:139-145
Campbell, R., Quilty, B., & Dieppe, P. Discrepancies between patients’ assessments of outcome:
Qualitative study nested within a randomised controlled trial. BMJ, 2003, 326, 252-253