Qualitative Methods in Community-Based Participatory Research: Coming of Age
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Source: Qualitative Health Research - December 16, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Clark, L., Ventres, W. Tags: CBPR: Editorial Source Type: research
Developing a Culturally Sensitive Lifestyle Behavior Change Program for Older Latinas
This article examines older Latinas’ sociocultural context relative to health with the goal of developing a culturally sensitive health behavior intervention. Photo-elicitation indicated two emerging themes that influenced lifestyle choices: family caregiving and religion. Researchers partnered with a faith-based organization to develop and implement a 6-month lifestyle intervention for Latinas ages 50 and older: Abuelas en Acción (AEA). At completion, interviews were conducted to understand women’s experiences and the influence AEA had on their lifestyles and health. Findings suggest that religious cont...
Source: Qualitative Health Research - December 8, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Schwingel, A., Linares, D. E., Galvez, P., Adamson, B., Aguayo, L., Bobitt, J., Castaneda, Y., Sebastiao, E., Marquez, D. X. Tags: General: Articles Source Type: research
HIV Treatment for Alcohol and Non-Injection Drug Users in El Salvador
Since the mid-1990s, many developing countries have introduced and expanded the availability of combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) to persons living with HIV (PLH). However, AIDS-related mortality continues to be high particularly among drug users. In this article, we present results from in-depth interviews with 13 HIV medical providers and 29 crack cocaine and alcohol using PLH in El Salvador. Providers endorsed negative attitudes toward substance using PLH and warned PLH that combining cART with drugs and alcohol would damage their livers and kidneys resulting in death. Upon diagnosis, PLH received little informa...
Source: Qualitative Health Research - December 8, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Dickson-Gomez, J., Bodnar, G., Petroll, A., Johnson, K., Glasman, L. Tags: General: Articles Source Type: research
Existential Absence: The Lived Experience of Family Members During Their Older Loved Ones Delirium
This article reports a phenomenological study that involved in-depth interviews with 14 women whose older loved one had delirium. Analysis and interpretation of the data depict the women’s experiences as "Changing family portraits: Sudden existential absence during delirium," capturing the way family members lose the taken-for-granted presence of their familiar older loved one and confront a stranger during delirium. (Source: Qualitative Health Research)
Source: Qualitative Health Research - December 8, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Day, J., Higgins, I. Tags: General: Articles Source Type: research
"Three in the Room": Embodiment, Disclosure, and Vulnerability in Qualitative Research
The researcher’s body in qualitative research is often absented, an absence that can render deceptively tidy research accounts. In this article, I reflect on the interplay of embodiment and disclosure in the interview dynamic and the way in which my body became an object of inquiry in the research process. Three qualitative studies inform the article: the first exploring the experiences of 40 people living with hepatitis C in New Zealand and Australia, the second comprising life-history interviews with 38 people who inject drugs in London, and the third following 27 people through hepatitis C treatment in London. Bod...
Source: Qualitative Health Research - December 8, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Harris, M. Tags: General: Articles Source Type: research
Clinical Experiences With Clients Who Are Low-Income: Mental Health Practitioners Perspectives
The experiences of nine licensed mental health practitioners regarding their work with clients from low-income backgrounds were examined utilizing grounded theory methodology. Themes that emerged from the semi-structured interviews highlighted a rich narrative that portrayed the work as both deeply satisfying and inherently complex. Participants described the personal nature of this work, including countertransference elicited because of their own personal economic contexts and emotional reactions experienced within and outside the therapy room. Their stories acknowledged systematic challenges that act as barriers to treat...
Source: Qualitative Health Research - December 8, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Thompson, M. N., Nitzarim, R. S., Cole, O. D., Frost, N. D., Ramirez Stege, A., Vue, P. T. Tags: General: Articles Source Type: research
Visibility and Voice: Aboriginal People Experience Culturally Safe and Unsafe Health Care
In Canada, cultural safety (CS) is emerging as a theoretical and practice lens to orient health care services to meet the needs of Aboriginal people. Evidence suggests Aboriginal peoples’ encounters with health care are commonly negative, and there is concern that these experiences can contribute to further adverse health outcomes. In this article, we report findings based on participatory action research drawing on Indigenous methods. Our project goal was to interrogate practices within one hospital to see whether and how CS for Aboriginal patients could be improved. Interviews with Aboriginal patients who had acces...
Source: Qualitative Health Research - December 8, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Hole, R. D., Evans, M., Berg, L. D., Bottorff, J. L., Dingwall, C., Alexis, C., Nyberg, J., Smith, M. L. Tags: General: Articles Source Type: research
"Im No Superman": Understanding Diabetic Men, Masculinity, and Cardiac Rehabilitation
Exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation (CR) programs help patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) reduce their risk of recurrent cardiac illness, disability, and death. However, men with CHD and Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) demonstrate lower attendance and completion of CR despite having a poor prognosis. Drawing on gender and masculinity theory, we report on a qualitative study of 16 Canadian diabetic men recently enrolled in CR. Major findings reflect two discursive positions men assumed to regain a sense of competency lost in illness: (a) working with the experts, or (b) rejection of biomedical knowledge. These pos...
Source: Qualitative Health Research - December 8, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Dale, C. M., Angus, J. E., Seto Nielsen, L., Kramer-Kile, M., Pritlove, C., Lapum, J., Price, J., Marzolini, S., Abramson, B., Oh, P., Clark, A. Tags: General: Articles Source Type: research
Improving Therapeutic Relationships: Joint Crisis Planning for Individuals With Psychotic Disorders
Outcomes for individuals with psychosis remain far from acceptable. Recently, prominent psychiatrists have called for an improved understanding of the impact of social contexts, and how social contexts might influence the development and maintenance of mental health problems. A key social context for individuals with psychosis is the therapeutic relationship. As part of a trial of joint crisis planning in England, this qualitative study aimed to determine the mechanism through which joint crisis planning might affect the therapeutic relationship. Results suggest that routine processes in mental health care are affected by ...
Source: Qualitative Health Research - December 8, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Farrelly, S., Lester, H., Rose, D., Birchwood, M., Marshall, M., Waheed, W., Henderson, R. C., Szmukler, G., Thornicroft, G. Tags: General: Articles Source Type: research
"Getting the Left Right": The Experience of Hemispatial Neglect After Stroke
We used a phenomenological approach to gain insight into the experiences of self, other, and world in patients with hemispatial neglect within the first month following stroke. Comprehensive descriptions of circumstances were conjoined with open-ended interviews of 12 participants. The neglect experience was captured in the overarching theme, "getting the left right," which encompasses the two subthemes of (a) surreal awareness of the left and (b) emergence of a different world. Patients had unclear perceptions of their own body and surroundings, their attention was brittle, and they encountered bewildering reactions from ...
Source: Qualitative Health Research - December 8, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Klinke, M. E., Zahavi, D., Hjaltason, H., Thorsteinsson, B., Jonsdottir, H. Tags: General: Articles Source Type: research
Teaching Theory Construction With Initial Grounded Theory Tools: A Reflection on Lessons and Learning
This article addresses criticisms of qualitative research for spawning studies that lack analytic development and theoretical import. It focuses on teaching initial grounded theory tools while interviewing, coding, and writing memos for the purpose of scaling up the analytic level of students’ research and advancing theory construction. Adopting these tools can improve teaching qualitative methods at all levels although doctoral education is emphasized here. What teachers cover in qualitative methods courses matters. The pedagogy presented here requires a supportive environment and relies on demonstration, collective...
Source: Qualitative Health Research - December 8, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Charmaz, K. Tags: General: Commentary Source Type: research
We Thank Our Reviewers
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Source: Qualitative Health Research - December 8, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Thank You Source Type: research
Book Review: Health sciences literature review made easy: The Matrix Method (4th ed.) Garrard, J.
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Source: Qualitative Health Research - October 14, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Smith, J. A. Tags: Book Review Source Type: research
Lived Observations: Linking the Researcher's Personal Experiences to Knowledge Development
We present three field note examples from observation in a hospice ward, which illuminate how researcher awareness of aspects of intersubjectivity can add valuable insights to data and analysis. Out of the examples, we elaborate on three arguments: (a) how the researcher’s lived experience of time and space during fieldwork triggers new research questions, (b) how observations as an embodied activity can bring new insights and open new layers of meaning, and (c) the value of observations in gaining insight into relational aspects in a hospice. (Source: Qualitative Health Research)
Source: Qualitative Health Research - October 14, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Thoresen, L., Ohlen, J. Tags: Piths, Pearls, and Provocation Source Type: research
Opportunities and Constraints in Disseminating Qualitative Research in Web 2.0 Virtual Environments
The Web 2.0 digital environment is revolutionizing how users communicate and relate to each other, and how information is shared, created, and recreated within user communities. The social media technologies in the Web 2.0 digital ecosystem are fundamentally changing the opportunities and dangers in disseminating qualitative health research. The social changes influenced by digital innovations shift dissemination from passive consumption to user-centered, apomediated cooperative approaches, the features of which are underutilized by many qualitative researchers. We identify opportunities new digital media presents for know...
Source: Qualitative Health Research - October 14, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Hays, C. A., Spiers, J. A., Paterson, B. Tags: Dissemination Source Type: research
