Related Experiment Video
Updated: Oct 7, 2025
09:17
Using a Virtual Store As a Research Tool to Investigate Consumer In-store Behavior
Published on: July 24, 2017
11.5K
Using a Virtual Platform for Conducting Grandfamily Research
Nursing Research
|January 6, 2022
Summary
Conducting remote research with grandparent-grandchild dyads presented challenges, especially in collecting physiological data like blood samples. Strategies were developed to overcome these obstacles, informing future virtual studies.
Area of Science:
- Gerontology
- Pediatric Research
- Remote Health Monitoring
Background:
- The COVID-19 pandemic necessitated a rapid shift from in-person to virtual research methods.
- This transition offered opportunities to develop novel practices for remote data collection, including physiological measures.
Purpose of the Study:
- To detail the methodological challenges encountered during virtual research with grandparent-grandchild dyads.
- To describe strategies developed to surmount these challenges, focusing on remote physiological data collection.
Main Methods:
- An observational study was conducted using a virtual platform with 11 grandparent-grandchild dyads.
- Lessons learned were documented through team discussions and participant feedback.
Main Results:
- Challenges included staff and participant unfamiliarity with virtual procedures, safe kit delivery, extended session times, and maintaining child engagement.
- Effective strategies involved clear instructions, ample support, flexible scheduling, anticipating issues, and considering developmental stages.
Conclusions:
- The insights gained provide valuable guidance for future virtual research involving grandparent-grandchild dyads, particularly in remote or rural settings.
- Successful remote data collection, including physiological samples, is feasible with appropriate planning and adaptive strategies.
Related Concept Videos
01:40Archival Research
16.6K
Some researchers gain access to large amounts of data without interacting with a single research participant. Instead, they use existing records to answer various research questions. This type of research approach is known as archival research. Archival research relies on looking at past records or data sets to look for interesting patterns or relationships. For example, a researcher might access the academic records of all individuals who enrolled in college within the past ten years and...
16.6K
01:20Virtual Work
986
The principle of virtual work states that if a body is in static and dynamic equilibrium, then the sum of all the virtual work done by all external forces and couple moments for any given virtual displacement must be zero.
In static equilibrium, a body can experience an imaginary or virtual movement, such as displacement or rotation. The virtual work done by a force is equal to the dot product of force and virtual displacement in the direction of the force. When it comes to virtually rotating a...
In static equilibrium, a body can experience an imaginary or virtual movement, such as displacement or rotation. The virtual work done by a force is equal to the dot product of force and virtual displacement in the direction of the force. When it comes to virtually rotating a...
986
01:35Pedigree Analysis
85.9K
Overview
85.9K
02:20Longitudinal Research
12.7K
Sometimes we want to see how people change over time, as in studies of human development and lifespan. When we test the same group of individuals repeatedly over an extended period of time, we are conducting longitudinal research. Longitudinal research is a research design in which data-gathering is administered repeatedly over an extended period of time. For example, we may survey a group of individuals about their dietary habits at age 20, retest them a decade later at age 30, and then again...
12.7K
01:50Cross-Sectional Research
11.9K
In cross-sectional research, a researcher compares multiple segments of the population at the same time. If they were interested in people's dietary habits, the researcher might directly compare different groups of people by age. Instead of following a group of people for 20 years to see how their dietary habits changed from decade to decade, the researcher would study a group of 20-year-old individuals and compare them to a group of 30-year-old individuals and a group of 40-year-old...
11.9K
01:29Relationship with Other Adult Family Members and Siblings
18
Other adult family members and siblings play a crucial role in shaping children’s social and emotional development. While parents or primary caregivers are often the central figures in early attachment and socialization, other adults in a child’s life, such as grandparents, aunts, and uncles, can significantly influence developmental outcomes. These influences depend on each adult’s personality and may help compensate when a primary caregiver is emotionally distant or...
18