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4. Gather data.
Methods of data collection are questionnaires, interviews, observation, records
5. Analyze data
Analyze qualitative date, Atlas Ti
Analyze quantitative data, SPSS
6. Writing up
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HIFA profile: Kuku Voyi is chair of the School of Health Systems and Public Health, University of Pretoria, South Africa. Kuku.Voyi@up.ac.za
001.4 Researh
001.42 Research Methods
361.72 Social Work Research
Make an appointment to see your Librarian who can help you select database/s or other search tools, or find books, journal articles, newspaper sources, government documents etc for your research project.
Boolean Operators ( AND, OR, NOT )
Join concepts: adolescents AND teenagers
Synonyms: alcohol OR substance
Excluding words from your search: risky behavior NOT community violence
Phrase searching: "..." ( inverted commas )
" risky behavior "
Truncations: * at the end of a word or within a word
adolesc* search for adolescent, adolescents
behavi*r search for behaviour, behavior
Parentheses ()
to enclose search strategies will customize your results to more accurately reflect your topic
( substance abuse OR alcohol abuse) AND risky behavior
not return substance abuse or alcohol abuse when risky behavior is not mentioned
("substance abuse" AND "alcohol abuse" ) AND ("sibling" OR "brother") AND ( risky behavi*r AND "parent support")
Citation Search
Find out if article have been cited by other authors.
Help to find more recent papers.
Indicate the importance of a piece of research.
Help to make your literature review more comprehensive.
Google Scholar and SCOPUS help with citation searching
