Exploring Important Influences on the Healthfulness of Prostate Cancer Survivors' Diets
A cancer diagnosis is often conceptualized as a teachable moment when individuals might be motivated to make lifestyle changes. Many prostate cancer survivors, however, do not adhere to dietary guidelines. In this article, we explore how cancer affected prostate cancer survivors’ diets and identify important influences on diet. Twenty prostate cancer survivors completed three 24-hour dietary recalls and an in-depth dietary interview. We analyzed interviews using a constant comparison approach, and dietary recall data quantitatively to assess quality and qualitatively to identify food choice patterns. Most men reporte...
Source: Qualitative Health Research - May 6, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Coa, K. I., Smith, K. C., Klassen, A. C., Thorpe, R. J., Caulfield, L. E. Tags: Qualitative Contributions to Quantiative Research Source Type: research
Using Mixed Methods to Identify and Answer Clinically Relevant Research Questions
The need for mixed methods research in answering health care questions is becoming increasingly recognized because of the complexity of factors that affect health outcomes. In this article, we argue for the value of using a qualitatively driven mixed method approach for identifying and answering clinically relevant research questions. This argument is illustrated by findings from a study on the self-management practices of cancer survivors and the exploration of one particular clinically relevant finding about higher uptake of self-management in cancer survivors who had received chemotherapy treatment compared with those w...
Source: Qualitative Health Research - May 6, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Shneerson, C. L., Gale, N. K. Tags: Qualitative Contributions to Quantiative Research Source Type: research
Physician Perspectives on Colorectal Cancer Surveillance Care in a Changing Environment
The purpose of this formative qualitatively driven mixed-methods study was to refine a measurement tool for use in interventions to improve colorectal cancer (CRC) surveillance care. We employed key informant interviews to explore the attitudes, practices, and preferences of four physician specialties. A national survey, literature review, and expert consultation also informed survey development. Cognitive pretesting obtained participant feedback to improve the survey’s face and content validity and reliability. Results showed that additional domains were needed to reflect contemporary interdisciplinary trends in sur...
Source: Qualitative Health Research - May 6, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Zapka, J., Sterba, K. R., LaPelle, N., Armeson, K., Burshell, D. R., Ford, M. E. Tags: Qualitative Contributions to Quantiative Research Source Type: research
Establishing Survey Validity and Reliability for American Indians Through "Think Aloud" and Test-Retest Methods
The purpose of this study was to use a mixed-methods approach to determine the validity and reliability of measurements used within an alcohol-exposed pregnancy prevention program for American Indian women. To develop validity, content experts provided input into the survey measures, and a "think aloud" methodology was conducted with 23 American Indian women. After revising the measurements based on this input, a test–retest was conducted with 79 American Indian women who were randomized to complete either the original measurements or the new, modified measurements. The test–retest revealed that some of the que...
Source: Qualitative Health Research - May 6, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Hauge, C. H., Jacobs-Knight, J., Jensen, J. L., Burgess, K. M., Puumala, S. E., Wilton, G., Hanson, J. D. Tags: Qualitative Contributions to Quantiative Research Source Type: research
Validating the Measurement of Social Capital in Bangladesh: A Cognitive Approach
Despite the growing evidence linking social capital to improvements in health and health behaviors, reliable measures of social capital are lacking in low-income countries. To accurately measure social capital in new contexts, there is a need to validate social capital survey questions in each new cultural setting. In this article, we examine the content validity of the measurement of social capital in Bangladesh using qualitative methods. In December 2012, we conducted four focus group discussions and 32 cognitive interviews in one rural subdistrict (Durgapur) and one urban slum (Mirpur). We used the findings from the foc...
Source: Qualitative Health Research - May 6, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Story, W. T., Taleb, F., Ahasan, S. M. M., Ali, N. A. Tags: Qualitative Contributions to Quantiative Research Source Type: research
Alexithymia, Emotional Dysregulation, and Recovery From Alcoholism: Therapeutic Response to Assessment of Mood
This study is a secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial that tested the effects of a gratitude intervention on well-being in a sample of individuals in outpatient treatment for alcohol use disorder (AUD). Follow-up qualitative interviews unexpectedly revealed that participants found the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) to be helpful to their recovery in the ways that it asked them to identify and rate their emotions. Participant statements were purposively sampled and analyzed using grounded theory methods to produce a conceptual framework illustrating the process of mood identification and its seq...
Source: Qualitative Health Research - May 6, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Krentzman, A. R., Higgins, M. M., Staller, K. M., Klatt, E. S. Tags: Qualitative Contributions to Quantiative Research Source Type: research
From Themes to Hypotheses: Following Up With Quantitative Methods
This article illustrates these procedures with examples that range from simple operationalization to the evaluation of complex models. It concludes with an argument for not only following up qualitative work with quantitative studies but also the reverse, and doing so by going beyond integrating methods within single projects to include broader mutual attention from qualitative and quantitative researchers who work in the same field. (Source: Qualitative Health Research)
Source: Qualitative Health Research - May 6, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Morgan, D. L. Tags: Pearls, Pith, & amp;amp; Provocation Source Type: research
Mixed Methods Research: The "Thing-ness" Problem
Contemporary mixed methods research (MMR) veers away from a "loosely bounded" to a "bounded" concept that has important negative implications for how qualitatively driven mixed methods approaches are positioned in the field of mixed methods and overall innovation in the praxis of MMR. I deploy the concept of reification defined as taking an object/abstraction and treating it as if it were real such that it takes on the quality of "thing-ness," having a concrete independent existence. I argue that the contemporary reification of mixed methods as a "thing" is fueled by three interrelated factors: (a) the growing formalizatio...
Source: Qualitative Health Research - May 6, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Hesse-Biber, S. Tags: Keynote Address Source Type: research
Perceptions of Health Professionals on Pain in Extremely Low Gestational Age Infants
Extremely low gestational age infants (<28 weeks at birth) experience significant pain from repeated therapeutic procedures while hospitalized in the neonatal intensive care unit. As part of a program of research examining pain in preterm infants, we conducted a qualitatively driven mixed-methods design, supplemented with a qualitative and quantitative component, to understand how health care professionals (HCPs) assess and manage procedural pain for tiny and underdeveloped preterm infants. Fifty-nine HCPs from different disciplines across four tertiary-level neonatal units in Canada participated in individual or focus ...
Source: Qualitative Health Research - May 6, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Gibbins, S., Stevens, B., Dionne, K., Yamada, J., Pillai Riddell, R., McGrath, P., Asztalos, E., O'Brien, K., Beyene, J., McNamara, P., Johnston, C. Tags: Qualitatively-Driven Mixed Methods Source Type: research
Dynamic Reflexivity in Action: An Armchair Walkthrough of a Qualitatively Driven Mixed-Method and Multiple Methods Study of Mindfulness Training in Schoolchildren
This article seeks to redress this absence of emphasis on the reflexive thinking underpinning the way that mixed- and multiple methods, qualitatively driven research approaches are thought about and subsequently used throughout a project. Using Morse’s notion of an armchair walkthrough, we excavate and explore the layers of decisions we made about how, and why, to use qualitatively driven mixed-method and multiple methods research in a study of mindfulness training (MT) in schoolchildren. (Source: Qualitative Health Research)
Source: Qualitative Health Research - May 6, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Cheek, J., Lipschitz, D. L., Abrams, E. M., Vago, D. R., Nakamura, Y. Tags: Qualitatively-Driven Mixed Methods Source Type: research
The Emergence of Mixing Methods in the Field of Evaluation
When and how did the contemporary practice of mixing methods in social inquiry get started? What events transpired to catalyze the explosive conceptual development and practical adoption of mixed methods social inquiry over recent decades? How has this development progressed? What "next steps" would be most constructive? These questions are engaged in this personally narrative account of the beginnings of the contemporary mixed methods phenomenon in the field of evaluation from the perspective of a methodologist who was there. (Source: Qualitative Health Research)
Source: Qualitative Health Research - May 6, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Greene, J. C. Tags: Commentaries Source Type: research
What Is So New About Mixed Methods?
In this article, I dispute claims that mixed methods research emerged only recently in the social sciences. I argue that some anthropologists and sociologists (and others) have used mixed methods in fieldwork for at least 80 years, and there are studies from early in the 20th century that clearly fall within the definition of "mixed methods." I explore some of the history of the mixing of qualitative and quantitative data in earlier ethnographic works and show that in some sectors of social science research, the "emergence" and proliferation of mixed methods were particularly notable around the middle of the 20th century. ...
Source: Qualitative Health Research - May 6, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Pelto, P. J. Tags: Commentaries Source Type: research
Introducing Qualitatively-Driven Mixed-Method Designs
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Source: Qualitative Health Research - May 6, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Morse, J. M., Cheek, J. Tags: Editorial Source Type: research
Seeing in Different Ways: Introducing "Rich Pictures"in the Study of Expert Judgment
In this article we explore the value of using visual data in a study on medical expert judgment to better understand medical experts’ conceptualizations of complex, challenging situations. We use examples from a larger study on medical expertise in which rich pictures and interviews were used. The three stories presented in this article belong to experts in the domain of surgery. The stories are used to show the ways in which rich pictures can capture and elucidate potentially hidden aspects of the influence of the context in surgical experts’ judgment during challenging operations. We suggest that incorporatin...
Source: Qualitative Health Research - March 31, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Cristancho, S., Bidinosti, S., Lingard, L., Novick, R., Ott, M., Forbes, T. Tags: Pearls, Pith, and Provocation Source Type: research
Older Users' Perspectives on the Benefits of Preventive Home Visits
In this article we explore older people’s perspectives on the benefits of preventive home visits (PHVs), after long-term follow-up. PHVs are health services intended to promote older people’s health and independence, prevent disease, and postpone functional decline. We applied an explorative and descriptive design and analyzed qualitative research interviews of 10 PHV users who had received multiple visits for at least 6 years. We sought manifest and latent content in our analysis. The participants reported benefits falling within four main categories: to feel safe, to manage everyday life, to live well, and to...
Source: Qualitative Health Research - March 31, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Toien, M., Bjork, I. T., Fagerstrom, L. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
