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Research Texts

Cook, J. V. (Ed.). (2001). Qualitative research in occupational therapy: Strategies and experiences. Albany, NY: Delmar/Thomson Learning.

DePoy, E., & Gitlin L. N. (1998). Introduction to research: Understanding and applying multiple strategies (2nd ed.). Saint Louis, MO: Mosby.

Dunn, W. (2008). Bringing evidence into everyday practice: Practical strategies for healthcare professionals. Thorofare, NJ: Slack.

Kielhofner G. (2006). Research in occupational therapy: Methods of inquiry for enhancing practice. Philadelphia: F. A. Davis.

Law, M., & MacDermid, J. (2008). Evidence-based rehabilitation: A guide to practice (2nd ed). Thorofare, NJ: Slack.

Portney, L. G., & Watkins, M. P. (2008). Foundations of clinical research: Applications to practice (3rd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall.

Stein, F, & Cutler, S. K. (1996). Clinical research in allied health and special education (3rd ed). San Diego: Singular.

PubMed Tutorial

PubMed is a search engine available to the public for finding information about biomedical research articles. PubMed covers articles that are included in the MEDLINE database and is provided free of charge by the United States National Library of Medicine.

The MEDLINE database includes citation information (i.e., authors, title, journal, date) and a summary of the article written by the authors (i.e., the abstract) for more than17 million articles published since the 1950s. In some instances, there are also links to a free copy of the full-length article. The 5,000 journals covered by the MEDLINE database all relate to medicine in some way. They include journals that focus on clinical research including occupational, physical, and speech therapy and nursing. They also include journals that focus on research in basic science fields such as biochemistry and cell biology. While most of the articles have been published in the United States, there are also articles from over 80 other countries.

Access through PubMed to free copies of full-length articles will be greatly expanded in the near future. This is the result of the recent passage of a law that will require the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to provide the public with electronic copies of all published articles that report on the results of research funded by NIH. The final manuscript will be made available to the public no later than 12 months after the official date of publication in a journal.

USE THIS LINK FOR A TUTORIAL on how to find research articles using PubMed.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/pubmed.html