Exploring Patients Experiences of Eating Disorder Treatment Services From a Motivational Perspective
This study employed qualitative methods to explore eating disorder (ED) patients’ perspectives on their treatment experiences to gain insight into those factors that influenced their motivational trajectory. Semistructured interviews were conducted with a purposive female sample of current (N = 11) and discharged (N = 3) ED service users, aged 18 to 31 years (M = 23.21, SD = 4.19). An interpretive thematic analytic approach, comprising both inductive and deductive methods of analysis, was employed to identify key themes in the data. Self-determination theory (SDT) provided a conceptual lens for analyzing data. Partic...
Source: Qualitative Health Research - October 31, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Sheridan, G., McArdle, S. Tags: General: Articles Source Type: research
Couples Narratives of Communion and Isolation Following Abnormal Prenatal Microarray Testing Results
This study analyzed 24 interviews with members of 12 heterosexual U.S. couples who received pathogenic or uncertain microarray prenatal testing results. Researchers used narrative analysis to examine couples’ understanding and incorporation of findings into decision making regarding pregnancy termination. Couples felt unprepared for these findings and frustrated because scant information was available to aid interpretation. Women sought information and made decisions, and men marginalized their distress to support their wives. A shift in voice from first to second person indicated attempts to normalize emotional resp...
Source: Qualitative Health Research - October 31, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Werner-Lin, A., Barg, F. K., Kellom, K. S., Stumm, K. J., Pilchman, L., Tomlinson, A. N., Bernhardt, B. A. Tags: General: Articles Source Type: research
Healthicization and Lay Knowledge About Eating Practices in Two African American Communities
In this manuscript, we expand upon sociological research in lay knowledge about health and healthicization by examining socially mediated ways in which 40 African American adults in two communities acquired information about eating practices. Participants employed a variety of socially informed information-seeking strategies. Many, but not all, used socially prescribed sources exhorting them to maximize their own health and reported an amalgam of experiences concerning their interpretation of healthist messages. Participants variously accepted messages about healthy eating or engaged in strategies of micro-resistance that ...
Source: Qualitative Health Research - October 31, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Potter, D. A., Markowitz, L. B., Smith, S. E., Rajack-Talley, T. A., DSilva, M. U., Della, L. J., Best, L. E., Carthan, Q. Tags: General: Articles Source Type: research
Toward an Understanding of the Poor Health Status of Indigenous Australian Men
The purpose of this study was to investigate perceptions of health and health behaviors among Indigenous Australian men. Using a participatory action research (PAR) framework, we conducted two focus groups and 40 individual semi-structured interviews with men between the ages of 18 and 35 years in each of three locations across Australia. We used the health beliefs model to provide a framework for the analyses. Participants recognized that their Indigenous status placed them in a vulnerable position with regard to health, and that there might be serious consequences of failing to follow a good diet and engage in appropriat...
Source: Qualitative Health Research - October 31, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Mellor, D., McCabe, M., Ricciardelli, L., Mussap, A., Tyler, M. Tags: General: Articles Source Type: research
Perceptions of Child Body Size and Health Care Seeking for Undernourished Children in Southern Malawi
Child undernutrition affects millions of children globally, but little is known about the ability of adults to detect different types of child undernutrition in low-income countries. We used focused ethnographic methods to understand how Malawian parents and grandparents describe the characteristics they use to identify good and poor child growth, their actual or preferred patterns of health seeking for undernourished children, and the perceived importance of child undernutrition symptoms in relation to other childhood illnesses. Malawians value adiposity rather than stature in assessing child growth. Symptoms of malnutrit...
Source: Qualitative Health Research - October 31, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Flax, V. L., Thakwalakwa, C., Ashorn, U. Tags: General: Articles Source Type: research
The Transformative Potential of Community Dance for People With Cancer
This research describes a community dance project for people affected by cancer, which was led by a trained community dancer over 10 movement workshops and three performances. Using a qualitative descriptive approach, the research explored the experiences of a convenience sample of 8 participants out of the original group of 17 individuals who took part in the community dance. The research was participatory and the researchers were involved in workshops and performances as members of the group who also had family members with cancer. The findings indicate the motivation of the dancers to continue in spite of hardship, thei...
Source: Qualitative Health Research - October 31, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Butler, M., Snook, B., Buck, R. Tags: General: Articles Source Type: research
Reframing Narratives of Aboriginal Health Inequity: Exploring Cree Elder Resilience and Well-Being in Contexts of Historical Trauma
A large body of literature explores historical trauma or intergenerational trauma among Aboriginal communities around the globe. This literature connects contemporary forms of social suffering and health inequity to broader historical processes of colonization and the residential school systems in Canada. There are tendencies within this literature, however, to focus on individual pathology and victimization while minimizing notions of resilience or well-being. Through a social constructionist lens, this research examined how interpersonal responses to historical traumas can be intertwined with moments of and strategies fo...
Source: Qualitative Health Research - October 31, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Hatala, A. R., Desjardins, M., Bombay, A. Tags: General: Articles Source Type: research
Enacting Varieties of Subjectivity Through Practices of Care: A Story of Living With Motor Neuron Disease
People living with disability or chronic illness often use practices of care to construct a version of life they are satisfied with. Drawing from a narrative-based study with people living with motor neuron disease (MND), I show how one couple tried to be recognized as active agents in their life, although oscillating between positions of less and more power. Through an examination of the practices of care that the couple enacted, I illustrate how their positioning in relation to practices of care helped them create meaning in their life. In their efforts to create a way of living they were satisfied with, they engaged in ...
Source: Qualitative Health Research - October 31, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Sakellariou, D. Tags: General: Articles Source Type: research
Sleep as a Gendered Family Affair: Snoring and the "Dark Side" of Relationships
This study contributes to the emerging sociological literature on sleep, family, and gender by examining the experience and management of snoring within families. Drawing on in-depth interviews with Jewish–Israeli men and women who snore as well as their family members, this article suggests that sleep is a gendered family affair. Family members attempt to face the challenges of snoring by using several management strategies to mend and sustain family ties, which are part of how they "do family." Nevertheless, men and women experience and manage snoring in different ways, thereby "doing gender" in their sleep managem...
Source: Qualitative Health Research - October 31, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Zarhin, D. Tags: General: Articles Source Type: research
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"What Do They Really Mean by Partnerships?" Questioning the Unquestionable Good in Ethics Guidelines Promoting Community Engagement in Indigenous Health Research
We present findings that community engagement—if done uncritically and in service to ethics guidelines rather than in service to ethical research—can itself cause harm by leading to community fatigue, undermining the community’s ability to be effectively involved in the research, and restricting the community’s ability to have oversight and control over research. We conclude by suggesting that the laudable goal of engaging communities in research requires careful reflection on the appropriate use of resources to operationalize meaningful collaboration. (Source: Qualitative Health Research)
Source: Qualitative Health Research - October 5, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Brunger, F., Wall, D. Tags: Ethics Source Type: research
Lessons Learned Designing and Using an Online Discussion Forum for Care Coordinators in Primary Care
While an increasing number of researchers are using online discussion forums for qualitative research, few authors have documented their experiences and lessons learned to demonstrate this method’s viability and validity in health services research. We comprehensively describe our experiences, from start to finish, of designing and using an asynchronous online discussion forum for collecting and analyzing information elicited from care coordinators in Patient-Centered Medical Homes across the United States. Our lessons learned from each phase, including planning, designing, implementing, using, and ending this privat...
Source: Qualitative Health Research - October 5, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Ferrante, J. M., Friedman, A., Shaw, E. K., Howard, J., Cohen, D. J., Shahidi, L. Tags: Pearls, Pith & amp;amp; Provocation Source Type: research
What Value Can Qualitative Research Add to Quantitative Research Design? An Example From an Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis Trial Feasibility Study
Using an example of qualitative research embedded in a non-surgical feasibility trial, we explore the benefits of including qualitative research in trial design and reflect on epistemological challenges. We interviewed 18 trial participants and used methods of Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis. Our findings demonstrate that qualitative research can make a valuable contribution by allowing trial stakeholders to see things from alternative perspectives. Specifically, it can help to make specific recommendations for improved trial design, generate questions which contextualize findings, and also explore disease experienc...
Source: Qualitative Health Research - October 5, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Toye, F., Williamson, E., Williams, M. A., Fairbank, J., Lamb, S. E. Tags: Innovative Methods Source Type: research
Experiences With the Providers Share Workshop Method: Abortion Worker Support and Research in Tandem
Abortion providers work in an environment characterized by the stresses of the helping professions as well as by the marginalization and devaluation that accompany work in a stigmatized field. We created the Providers Share Workshop (PSW), a five-session workshop carried out at seven abortion care sites around the United States, to support workers and better understand the complexities of working in abortion care. Qualitative analysis suggests that the experience of participating in the workshop fosters connection, and that the group process creates unique data about the abortion care team. Taken together, these results sh...
Source: Qualitative Health Research - October 5, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Debbink, M. L. P., Hassinger, J. A., Martin, L. A., Maniere, E., Youatt, E., Harris, L. H. Tags: Innovative Methods Source Type: research
Using Qualitative Methods to Assess the Conceptual Equivalence of the Spanish and English Stroke Action Test (STAT)
This article describes the use of qualitative methods to examine the cultural and lifestyle appropriateness, clarity of item-wording, comprehension of item intent, and conceptual equivalence of the developed Spanish and the revised English Stroke Action Test (which includes three additional atypical stroke symptoms more common in women). Thirty in-depth cognitive interviews were conducted (10 in Spanish) using concurrent structured probes. The desired ultimate outcome was to obtain conceptually equivalent measures in both languages. Four sources of variability in comprehension were identified: unfamiliar and/or idiosyncrat...
Source: Qualitative Health Research - October 5, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Ramirez, M., Teresi, J. A., Ogedegbe, G., Williams, O. Tags: Innovative Methods Source Type: research
