Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA.
J Music Ther. 2013 Summer;50(2):123-48. doi: 10.1093/jmt/50.2.123.
Music therapists have an ethical and professional responsibility to provide the highest quality care possible to their patients. Much of the time, high quality care is guided by evidence-based practice standards that integrate the most current, available research in making decisions. Accordingly, music therapists need research that integrates multiple ways of knowing and forms of evidence. Mixed methods research holds great promise for facilitating such integration. At this time, there have not been any methodological articles published on mixed methods research in music therapy.
The purpose of this article is to introduce mixed methods research as an approach to address research questions relevant to music therapy practice.
This article describes the core characteristics of mixed methods research, considers paradigmatic issues related to this research approach, articulates major challenges in conducting mixed methods research, illustrates four basic designs, and provides criteria for evaluating the quality of mixed methods articles using examples of mixed methods research from the music therapy literature.
Mixed methods research offers unique opportunities for strengthening the evidence base in music therapy. Recommendations are provided to ensure rigorous implementation of this research approach.
音乐治疗师有责任和专业义务为患者提供尽可能高质量的护理。在大多数情况下，高质量的护理是由循证实践标准指导的，这些标准在做出决策时整合了最新、可用的研究。因此，音乐治疗师需要整合多种知识和证据形式的研究。混合方法研究为促进这种整合提供了很大的希望。目前，还没有关于音乐治疗中混合方法研究的方法学文章发表。
本文旨在介绍混合方法研究，作为一种解决与音乐治疗实践相关的研究问题的方法。
本文描述了混合方法研究的核心特征，考虑了与这种研究方法相关的范式问题，阐明了进行混合方法研究的主要挑战，举例说明了四种基本设计，并使用来自音乐治疗文献的混合方法研究的例子提供了评估混合方法文章质量的标准。
混合方法研究为加强音乐治疗中的证据基础提供了独特的机会。提供了建议，以确保这种研究方法的严格实施。
