A mixed methods study found that graduate engineering students performed worse than undergraduate students on a standard critical thinking instrument.
A mixed methods study found that barriers to contraceptive use were high cost, transport distance, inadequate number of contraceptives, and unavailability of preferred type of contraceptive [ 40].
To our knowledge, this is the first study to use a mixed method to find a preferred location for an ABHR dispenser in a patient room.
For the present study, we applied a mixed method to find the optimal location for an ABHR dispenser in a single patient room on an ICU.
Considering the purpose of this research study, an "exploratory sequential mixed methods" design was found to be appropriate.
Despite the popularity and strong advocacy for combining quantitative and qualitative methods, few mixed methods approaches are found in the sport management research.
Using a mixed methods approach, we found that the SMHC was implemented with high adherence to fidelity, and comparisons based on different caseload samples generally support the effectiveness of the specialized mental health caseload, particularly on criminal justice outcomes.
In this mixed methods study, we found that participants preferred the BAR illustration and they did not prefer the icon array FACES.
While this is small for a conjoint analysis, it is similar to mixed methods preference studies found in the literature [ 13], and many commercial and legal applications of conjoint analysis methods have used similar sample sizes (especially when the focus is on the preferences of experts).
Moreover, two RCTs and one mixed-method study found that the patients were satisfied with and preferred HaH, but it is not in detail described why and what made the participants in their study prefer HaH [ 12, 13, 24].
