CJ Flood has a gift for small, purposeful details: settings, such as the charmed hollow in the cornfield where Iris and Trick meet on lazy mornings, or the riotous paddock at night as the tractors begin the eviction, are quietly but brilliantly visual and full of feeling.
Although the overall body of research on wandering is both recent and small, there is some evidence that exits from home and formal care settings are purposeful events [ 10, 14].
Further studies may consider expanding data collection settings and using purposeful sampling to obtain a study sample with more even proportions of each demographic characteristic.
To evaluate pharmacy students' ability to perform and perspectives regarding a purposeful mapping of curricular content into experiential settings for application.
Low-anxiety social settings that afford opportunities for purposeful verbalizations and build upon the interests of the child facilitate language skill development most effectively, and this includes second language learners (Lessow-Hurley 2003).
Purposeful sampling ensured that persons with dementia in various care settings were included in the study, contributing to a greater variation of caring relationships being studied.
At the level of cells and organelles, it is the maintenance of different states inside and outside, as well as from cell to cell, that give them their functional properties; an orderly, purposeful control of such states and their transitions to alternative settings as needed is essential, and the ability to maintain that order is paramount (Goodman et al., 2010).
We recruited patients from diverse settings and with diverse experiences of acupuncture following a purposeful strategy of sampling for maximum-variation [ 24].
Purposeful selection was used to recruit the pharmacies, ensuring representation from both urban and rural settings; all sites had a long history of serving as placement sites for UBC.
Focus groups were conducted with a purposeful sample of 106 health professionals of differing disciplines, in 18 UK primary and secondary care settings.
A purposeful sampling strategy was undertaken to access respondents across all Canadian geographic regions, with diversity across settings (urban and rural) and service sectors (hospital based and community based).
