Publications

BACKGROUND: An increasing number of children undergo ambulatory surgery each year, and a significant proportion experience substantial preoperative anxiety and postoperative pain. The management of perioperative anxiety and pain remains challenging in children and is inadequate, which negatively impacts the physical, psychosocial, and economic outcomes. Existing nonpharmacological interventions are costly, time consuming, vary in availability, ...

Historically, qualitative and quantitative approaches have been used relatively separately in synthesizing scientific evidence in many research domains. During the last decade, mixed methods approaches are becoming increasingly popular, and practices of combining qualitative and quantitative data and methods at the primary empirical study level have increased considerably in frequency in the educational, health, psychological, and social ...

A mixed methods research synthesis is a type of systematic literature review that provides a synthesis of knowledge and evidence on a phenomenon by applying a mixed methods approach. This article defines mixed methods research synthesis, discusses the need for mixed methods research synthesis and the philosophical issues that are involved, and summarizes the different steps in conducting a mixed methods research synthesis. It concludes with a ...

In several subdomains of the social, behavioral, health, and human sciences, research questions are increasingly answered through mixed methods studies, combining qualitative and quantitative evidence and research elements. Accordingly, the importance of including those primary mixed methods research articles in systematic reviews grows. It is generally known that the critical appraisal of articles is an essential step in the development of a ...

Historically, qualitative and quantitative approaches have been applied relatively separately in synthesizing qualitative and quantitative evidence, respectively, in several research domains. However, mixed methods approaches are becoming increasingly popular nowadays, and practices of combining qualitative and quantitative research components at the primary empirical study level have recently have increased significantly in frequency. ...

This article provides a systematic and pluralistic theory of causation that fits the kind of reasoning commonly found in mixed methods research. It encompasses a variety of causal concepts, notions, approaches, and methods. Each instantiation of the theory is like a mosaic, where the image appears when the tiles are appropriately displayed. This means that researchers should carefully construct a causal mosaic for each research study, ...

This paper demonstrates how a digital environment offers new opportunities for transforming qualitative data into quantitative data in order to use data mining and information visualization for mixed methods research. The digital approach to mixed methods research is illustrated by a framework which combines qualitative methods of multimodal discourse analysis with quantitative methods of data mining and information visualization in a ...

INTRODUCTION: Mental disorders such as depression are common, and an estimated 264 million people are affected by them throughout the world. In recent years, studies on digital health interventions to treat mental disorders have shown evidence of their efficacy, and interest in using them has increased as a result. In the primary care setting, depression and anxiety are the two most frequently diagnosed and treated mental disorders. When they do ...