Overview: This interactive workshop is designed to build dental hygiene researchers'
confidence and skills for effectively using qualitative research methodologies, particularly …

Current issues in dentistry including a focus on patients' wishes for outcomes and dentists'
role in that process raise important questions that cannot be addressed by quantitative …

• What makes a scientific project valid?• What meaning can a scientist give to a
phenomenon that those who are not scientists cannot give?• What qualifies as knowledge in …

The scientific world has historically been marked by the dominance of natural sciences over
social sciences to the point that mathematics is sometimes labeled the 'queen of the …

The concept of evidence based practice is one that is now well known and applied
frequently in oral healthcare. Research in the science based professions has predominantly …

Twelve years ago, I started a graduate program in dental hygiene education. One of the core
requirements was to develop and execute a thesis project. Another core requirement was to …

Researchers are engaged with producing knowledge. Through this knowledge production,
they make claims about the world. For applied health researchers, our knowledge …

The 3rd North American/Global Dental Hygiene Research Conference,“Beyond the
Boundaries: Discovery, Innovation and Transformation,” was held from October 16 to 18 …

Qualitative research collects non-numerical data that explores human behaviour, attitudes,
beliefs and personality characteristics unamendable to quantitative research. The qualitative …

Aim: The purpose of this review was to comprehensively explore various aspects of
qualitative research, its methods, applications, challenges, and recommendations pertaining …