Study 2: Proposed Study Design, Instrument Development, and Pilot Study

Abstract

This chapter intends to propose a research design and to compose a quantitative survey instrument suitable for answering the research questions posed in Chapter 4. Both are necessary since—until now—no comparable study exists that has investigated a similar set of research questions in the domain of geriatric care nursing. It follows that both the research design as well as the survey instrument have to be newly developed.