Publishing Research: From an Occupational Therapy Perspective

Abstract

Two years ago, at the inception of this Diabetes Research – Open Journal, I wrote an opinion article for the inaugural issue about the need for articles targeting secondary prevention. 1 The journal has grown to provide many quantitative research articles that deal with
important issues for managing tertiary issues, thus providing statistically significance current research. However, I failed to convince both the researcher and reviewers about the important of qualitative research. I have published quantitative biomedical research linking heart rate to blood sugar, to find a non-invasive method of evaluating blood sugar.2-9 Since the first article was published in 2006, which disseminated the research through international and regional biomedical engineering conference proceedings, the studies have triggered both intensive inquiries and additional new research in this area.