Denise F. Polit

TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce the concept of evidence-based research in the context of qualitative and quantitative research, and propose a methodology to generate evidence for nursing research in an Evidence-Based Practice Environment.

TL;DR: It is found that both methods of computing the scale-level index (S-CVI) are being used by nurse researchers, although it was not always possible to infer the calculation method.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide an overview of the research process in qualitative and quantitative research and its use in nursing practice, including preliminary steps in the Research Process Scrutinizing Research Problems, Research Questions, and Hypotheses Finding and Reviewing Studies in the Literature Examining the Conceptual/Theoretical Basis of a Study Part I: Overview of Nursing Research Introducing Research and Its Use in Nursing Practice Comprehending Key Concepts in Qualitative and Quantitative Research Understanding the Research process in QualIT Understanding the research processes in Q&Q Understanding Q&

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the CVI to alternative content validity indexes and concluded that the widely-used CVI has advantages with regard to ease of computation, understandability, focus on agreement of relevance rather than agreement per se, and focus on consensus rather than consistency, and provision of both item and scale information.