Under the guidance of the Dean of the College of Pharmacy, Assistant Professor Dr. Sarmed H. Kathum Alkhateeb, the Scientific Affairs Unit at the College of Pharmacy / University of Baghdad held a scientific workshop entitled “Overview of Mixed Method Research” that was provided by Dr. Ali Azeez Al-Jumaili from the Clinical Pharmacy Department virtually via Zoom.
The workshop focused on the following learning objectives:
- Teaching the readers, a summary of mixed methods Research, when, and what
- Also listing the types of mixed methods and when we need to use each type.
- Why should a researcher use such an approach?
- Explaining to readers what you plan to accomplish with your design.
- Describe how to match the design to the research problem, purpose, and questions!
- Explaining WHY researchers should use such a mixed method design.
- Summarizing some of the mixed method work done by the presenter in pharmacy practice and social and administrative pharmacy fields.
- Finally, guide the readers on how they can conduct such studies and write the article components.
Mixed methods research is the type of research in which a researcher or team of researchers combines elements of qualitative and quantitative research approaches.
Types of Mixed Methods:
- QUAL + QUAN (inductive-simultaneous design where, the core component is qualitative, and the supplemental component is quantitative).
- QUAL! QUAN (inductive-sequential design where the core component is qualitative and the supplemental component is quantitative).
- QUAN + QUAL (deductive-simultaneous design where, the core component is quantitative, and the supplemental component is qualitative).
- QUAN! QUAL (deductive-sequential design, where the core component is quantitative and the supplemental component is qualitative)
