2. Research is not an easy activity in itself.
Moreover, it becomes more difficult when
it is conducted outside the laboratory.
3. Research in health, nursing, and social
sciences is usually carried out in natural
setting.
4. MAIN
PROBLEMS
Fallibility of disciplined research
Handling multiple variables
Difficulty in control on external
variables
Minimal possibility of laboratory
research
5. lack of standarized tools
Measuring qualitative
phenomenon through quantiative
means
Lack of intrest among researchers
Ethical constraints
Lack of qualitative research
expertise
6. FALLIBILITY OF
DISCIPLINED RESEARCH
Indeed most of research study in the field of
nursing, health and social sciences have some
limitations.
Each research question can be solved by different
approaches, depending on several factors.
7. Therefore, it is always confusing to decide a best
approach for solving a research question.
It means that in these disciplines, none of the
approaches can solve a question completely.
However, repeated attempts to solve a similar
question with identical answers may increase the
value of generated evidances.
8. HANDLING MULTIPLE
VARIABLES
Most of research studies in the fileld of nursing ,
health and social sciences usually measurements of
the multiple variables in single attempt.
This attempt of handling multiple data in single
instance not only causes data collection, analysis, and
interpretation problems, but also needs lots of time,
energy and money to handle these multiple non-
numerical data.
9. DIFFICULTY IN CONTROL
ON EXTERNAL VARIABLES
Research in nursing, health, and social sciences
is usually conducted in natural setting. Therefore, it
becomes very difficult to exert control over
external variables while measuring the effect of
independent variable on dependent variable.
10. For instance, a researcher wants to assess the
efficicacy of an antibiotic in treatment of an
infection where patient’s biochemical parameters,
diet,lifestyle, consmption of other drugs, etc. are
the external variables which are ethically difficult
to control.
11. MINIMAL POSSIBILITY OF
LABORATORY RESEARCH
Research in nursing, health and social sciences
usually deals with phenomenon related to humans,
where ethically as well as practically it becomes
very difficult to conduct research studies in
laboratory, in natural setting.
12. LACK OF STANDARDIZED
TOOLS
Research in nursing, health and social sciences
usually deals with phenomenona where valid and
reliable standardized tools are needed to generate
empirical evidances. However, it is evident that
there is significant lack of valid and reliable tools
to measure variables in nursing, health and social
science disciplines.
13. Measuring qualitative
phenomenon through
quantitative means.
It is usually observed several phenomenona in
the fields of nursing, health and social sciences are
qualitative in nature. However, it can be commonly
seen that these disciplines usually measures these
qualititative phenomena by using quantitative
means effectiveness of evidance get distorted.
14. This is assumed that this usually happens
because of superficial knowledge of qualitative
research among professionals of nursing, health
and social sciences.
15. LACK OF QUALITATIVE
RESEACH EXPERTISE
Qualitative research methods are considered to
be best of study phenomena in the field of nursing,
health and social sciences but there is significant
dearth (very short) of experts equipped with the
knowledge of qualitative research.
