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  2. Taking longer to get to REM sleep could indicate Alzheimer's ...

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    Study limitations. This research has a few limitations. First, it cannot establish that delayed REM sleep is a cause of Alzheimer’s disease. ... Future research could benefit from studies with ...

  3. Qualitative research - Wikipedia

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    These limitations include participant reactivity, the potential for a qualitative investigator to over-identify with one or more study participants, "the impracticality of the Glaser-Strauss idea that hypotheses arise from data unsullied by prior expectations," the inadequacy of qualitative research for testing cause-effect hypotheses, and the ...

  4. Diary studies - Wikipedia

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    There are some limitations of diary studies, mainly due to their characteristics of reliance on memory and self-report measures. There is low control, low participation and there is a risk of disturbing the action. In feedback studies, it can be troubling and disturbing to write everything down. [19] This is called a respondent burden. [15]

  5. Quantitative research - Wikipedia

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    Quantitative research is a research strategy that focuses on quantifying ... Quantitative methods have limitations. These studies do not provide reasoning behind ...

  6. Crossover study - Wikipedia

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    In medicine, a crossover study or crossover trial is a longitudinal study in which subjects receive a sequence of different treatments (or exposures). While crossover studies can be observational studies , many important crossover studies are controlled experiments , which are discussed in this article.

  7. Cohort study - Wikipedia

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    Cohort studies represent one of the fundamental designs of epidemiology which are used in research in the fields of medicine, pharmacy, nursing, psychology, social science, and in any field reliant on 'difficult to reach' answers that are based on evidence . In medicine for instance, while clinical trials are used primarily for assessing the ...

  8. Hierarchy of evidence - Wikipedia

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    A large number of hierarchies of evidence have been proposed. Similar protocols for evaluation of research quality are still in development. So far, the available protocols pay relatively little attention to whether outcome research is relevant to efficacy (the outcome of a treatment performed under ideal conditions) or to effectiveness (the outcome of the treatment performed under ordinary ...

  9. Randomized controlled trial - Wikipedia

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    They concluded that most of the studies were of low quality and advocated the use of randomized controlled trials wherever possible in future transport research. Dr. Steve Melia [ 114 ] took issue with these conclusions, arguing that claims about the advantages of RCTs, in establishing causality and avoiding bias, have been exaggerated.