Mixed Methods Research

Daphne C. Watkins is a faculty member at the University of Michigan School of Social Work and the Department of Psychiatry. She studies gender disparities and mental health over the adult life course using mixed methods research approaches. She teaches graduate-level courses in research methods, mixed methods research, and community interventions.Deborah Gioia is Associate Professor of Social Work at the University of Maryland, Baltimore since 2006. Her clinical and research areas have concentrated around first episodes of psychotic disorders in the general population of young adults and now in veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Other research interests have been in practitioner adoption of evidence-based practices and everyday evidence of neuropsychological processes in persons with serious mental illness. She teaches courses in serious mental illness and has taught qualitative research methods in the PhD program.

• Preface ; Chapter 1 (First Floor): An Introduction to a <"Mixed>" Way of Thinking ; Chapter 2 (Second Floor): Designing Mixed Methods Studies ; Step 1: Develop a purpose statement and research questions ; Step 2: Understand mixed methods design notation and language ; Step 3: Choose a mixed methods design ; Chapter 3 (Third Floor): Mixed Methods Data Collection ; Step 4: Decide on the data collection methods ; Step 5: Develop a sampling plan and recruitment strategies ; Step 6: Collect the data ; Chapter 4 (Fourth Floor): Mixed Methods Data Analysis ; Step 7: Prepare the data for analysis ; Step 8: Analyze the data ; Step 9: Interpret the integrated findings ; Chapter 5 (Fifth Floor): Perils, Pitfalls and Considerations ; Chapter 6 (Sixth Floor): Writing up, Presenting, and Teaching Mixed Methods ; References