title: Selecting the right approach.
abstract: Research can be a complex and challenging endeavour but the outcomes will often change peoples' lives. Such a claim stands not only for clinical trials developing new medicines or therapeutic interventions, but also for qualitative studies that help us to understand how and why people experience health and illness as they do. The real challenge for researchers can be to ensure that the right questions are asked and that the most appropriate methodological approaches are adopted to answer these questions.
authors.forename: Leslie
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gelling
mesh_terms: D003657:Decision Making; D006801:Humans; D015399:Nursing Research / Q000379:methods*; D036301:Qualitative Research