Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Nursing, #7460 Carrington Hall, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
Res Nurs Health. 2011 Apr;34(2):153-9. doi: 10.1002/nur.20421. Epub 2010 Dec 28.
The wide variation in definitions of the research case study can make it difficult for health sciences researchers to see all of the possibilities for this form of inquiry. Case studies are defined here as singular combinations of diverse arrays of methodological approaches directed toward maintaining "empirical intimacy" with the one or more temporally and spatially defined objects researchers construct and target for study. The cases selected for study are made as opposed to found through an iterative and theory-laden process called "casing." Case- as opposed to variable-oriented analysis helps researchers maintain "empirical intimacy" with the cases in their case studies. Case studies may be useful in enhancing programs of research in instrument and intervention development.
研究案例研究的定义差异很大，这使得健康科学研究人员很难看到这种形式的研究的所有可能性。这里将案例研究定义为针对一个或多个时间和空间上定义的研究对象，采用多种方法的独特组合，旨在保持与研究对象的“经验亲密性”。研究中选择的案例是通过一个称为“案例”的迭代和充满理论的过程来构建的，而不是发现的。与变量为导向的分析相比，案例分析有助于研究人员与案例研究中的案例保持“经验亲密性”。案例研究可用于增强仪器和干预措施发展的研究计划。
