The Delphi Technique in Nursing and Health Research

by Sinead Keeney, Hugh A. McKenna, Felicity Hasson

The Delphi Technique in Nursing and Health Research is a practical guide to using the Delphi methodology for students and researchers in nursing and health. It adopts a logical step-by-step approach, introducing the researcher to the Delphi, outlining its development, analysing key characteristics and parameters for its successful use and exploring its applications in nursing and health. The book addresses issues of methodology, design, framing the research question, sampling, instrumentation, methodological rigour, reliability and validity, and methods of data analysis.

The Delphi Technique in Nursing and Health Research enables the reader to be aware of the limitations of the technique and possible solutions, to design a Delphi questionnaire for each of the different rounds of a study, to consider different approaches to the technique in relation to a study, to analyse the data from each round of a Delphi study, and to understand the importance of feedback between rounds. Key Features

208 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

Reviews

[Julia Kerrigan]

“In some ways it is unfortunate - it connotes someone oracular, something smacking a little of the occult - whereas as a matter of fact, precisely the opposite is involved; it primarily is concerned with making the best you can of a less than perfect fund of information.”

[Leslie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Do not be put off by the poor editing: The actual content of this book is helpful for the novice planning a Delphi study. I got a lot out of it that I had not been able to glean reading medical Delphi research manuscripts. It has clear instructions, examples, and explanations for all the methodological choices in Delphi research.