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Qualitative Research Project (qualitative + research_project)

Distribution by Scientific Domains

Medical Sciences	50%
Humanities and Social Sciences	50%

Selected Abstracts

Costa Rican Research Experiences: Mid-1950s and Early 1960s

FAMILY & CONSUMER SCIENCES RESEARCH JOURNAL, Issue 2 2008
Linda Nelson
Qualitative research projects with rural Costa Rican women in two different villages are reported. One dealt with possessed, desired, and (by default) rejected kitchen facilities. A pictorial method was used to prompt the homemakers' decisions. The other research explored time activity patterns of homemakers based on observed activities compared to their predictions and recollections of their activities for the day observed. Time use goals were inferred from the data. Detailed methodological procedures are provided for each study. Research data as well as field journal quotations are included to illustrate the cultural learning experiences and the work is written in first person. [source]

,Allowed into a Man's World' Meanings of Work,Life Balance: Perspectives of Women Civil Engineers as ,Minority' Workers in Construction

GENDER, WORK & ORGANISATION, Issue 1 2009
Jacqueline H. Watts
This article discusses how women working as civil engineers within the UK construction industry perceive work,life balance and considers strategies they use to achieve this. The findings are presented of a qualitative research project that explored the experiences of women in this role, focusing on the subcultural context of a profession that is dominated by the values of presenteeism and infinite availability. A feminist post-structuralist framework is used to analyse how women negotiate their personal and professional time and the extent to which their other roles as carers and nurturers unsettle male work practices in this highly gendered profession. There are gradually increasing numbers of women in professional construction roles and their success appears to depend on being able to fit in to the dominant masculine culture of long working hours and the male pub gathering. Despite an increased presence, women's minority status in construction continues to challenge their professional identity and this is central to the conflict many face between the dual roles of corporate worker and private non-work person. [source]

Silenced voices: hearing the stories of parents bereaved through the suicide death of a young adult child

HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE IN THE COMMUNITY, Issue 3 2010
Myfanwy Maple PhD
Abstract The current paper reports findings from a qualitative research project that aimed to explore parents' experiences following the suicide death of their young adult child. Twenty-two Australian parents told of the suicide death of their son or daughter during the data collection period (2003 to late 2004). One narrative theme drawn from the interview data is reported here: the way in which suicide-bereaved parents feel unable to talk about their child's life and death, their experience of suicide and their resultant bereavement. Parents reported being silenced by others and silencing themselves in relation to talking about their bereavement. Parents' private stories are used to explain the difficulties they faced given the contemporary social and cultural context of grief and suicide. Then follows an examination of the impact these difficulties had on their ongoing grief narrative and availability of social support. Implications for health and social care intervention are presented to assist in better preparing support workers in their interactions with parents bereaved in this manner. [source]

Qualitative Outcome Analysis: Evaluating Nursing Interventions for Complex Clinical Phenomena

JOURNAL OF NURSING SCHOLARSHIP, Issue 2 2000
Janice M. Morse
Purpose: To describe a method that allows evaluating nursing interventions derived from a qualitative research project, and that shows appropriate interventions. Organizing Framework: Qualitative research has expanded over the last decade and has contributed significantly to Inderstanding patients' experiences of health, illness, and injury. Yet the value of qualitative research in determining clinical interventions and subsequently evaluating the effects of these interventions on patients' outcomes has been limited. This method is used to confirm the efficacy of nursing interventions when experience changes over time, to extend the repertoire of intervention strategies, and to further clinicians' understanding of possible outcomes. Design: From a completed study, Qualitative Outcome Analysis (QOA) enhances the identification of meaningful intervention strategies and plans for utilization. The researcher identifies the type of qualitative data that will enable the interpretation and evaluation of interventions, devises a means of data ecording and analysis, and finally, disseminates the findings. Conclusions: QOA is a systematic means to confirm the applicability of clinical strategies developed from a single qualitative project, to extend the repertoire of clinical interventions, and to evaluate clinical outcomes. [source]

The boundaries of property: lessons from Beatrix Potter

THE CANADIAN GEOGRAPHER/LE GEOGRAPHE CANADIEN, Issue 2 2004
Nicholas Blomley
Beatrix Potter's classic children's book, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, offers an example of a well-entrenched view of property and its geographies. Drawing on this, and current scholarship on law and geography, I explore the ways in which the spatial boundaries of property are formally conceived. I then compare this model with the findings of a qualitative research project on people's everyday practices and understandings of their garden boundaries in inner city Vancouver. While this provides partial support for the formal model, I find more pervasive evidence for a very different view of the boundaries of property. While the dominant account assumes a determinate, individualistic and ordered view of the boundary, my findings suggest a more relational, porous and ambiguous alternative. The gap, however, proves instructive. In conclusion, therefore, I return to law and geography to reflect on the importance of thinking through the ways legal forms, such as property, are materially and spatially enacted within particular places. Finally, the study alerts us to the multivalent political possibilities of property. While property can, indeed, be individualistic and reified, it also contains more collective and fluid meanings. Le livre classique d'enfants, Pierre Lapin, par Beatrix Potter, donne un exemple d'une opinion bien implantée de la propriété et de ses géographies. En tirant de ce sujet, et de l'érudition récente de la loi et de la géographie, j'examine les façons dans lesquelles les frontières spatiales d'une propriété sont conçues officiellement. Ensuite, je met en parallèle ce modèle avec les résultats d'un projet de recherche qualitatif qui explique les habitudes quotidiennes des personnes et les compréhensions des frontières de leurs jardins dans les quartiers déshérités du Vancouver. Pendant que ce projet donne du soutien partiel pour l'ancien modèle, je trouve de l'évidence qui se fait sentir un peu partout pour une opinion très différente au sujet des frontières des propriétés. Tandis que l'explication principale admette une vue au sujet de la frontière qui est déterminante, individualiste et hiérarchisé, mes résultats proposent une alternative plus relationelle, plus perméable, et ambiguë. La lacune, cependant, démontre d'être éducative. En conclusion, donc, je retourne à la loi et à la géographie pour réfléchir sur l'importance de penser comment les formes légales, comme la propriété, sont promulgués d'une façon matérielle et spatialle dans les endroits particuliers. Finalement, cette étude nous avertit aux possibilités politiques et polyvalentes de la propriété. Lorsque la propriété peut, bien sûr, être individualiste et bien fondé, elle peut contenir des significations plus collectives et fluides. [source]

Overcoming remoteness in CME videoteleconferencing: "I want my MD TV"

THE JOURNAL OF CONTINUING EDUCATION IN THE HEALTH PROFESSIONS, Issue 1 2000
Dr. Jeanne E. Bitterman EdD Lecturer, Education Consultant, Research Associate
Abstract Videoteleconferencing in continuing medical education (CME) is here to stay. In the growing health care climate, with increased mergers of institutions and facilities, education's reliance on this medium promises to grow. This project summary describes one large metropolitan institution's effort to improve the commitment to, use in, and effectiveness of Videoteleconferencing in its multisite delivery of CME programs. The institution is a nationally renowned interdisciplinary teaching and research hospital health center, with more than 1000 beds. The medical staff numbers more than 1100. The CME program, accredited by the Medical Society of the State of New York, sponsors more than 44 activities a year, awarding over 13,000 certified category 1 CME credits and serving a combined total of over 806 participating MDs and DOs. A study team comprised of the Medical Board Education Committee's Chair-director of CME, an adult education consultant-professor of adult education, and a visual literacy consultant undertook a year-long qualitative research project to explore issues, unearth dilemmas in practice, and generate recommendations for future policy and practice related to videoteleconferencing. The primary objective was to derive strategies for enhancing the educational effectiveness and community building potential of videoteleconferencing at the hospital-health center. [source]

Migration politics in Ireland: exploring the impacts on young people's geographies

AREA, Issue 2 2010
Naomi Bushin
This paper focuses on the ways in which the politics of migration impacts upon the everyday geographies of immigrant young people living in Ireland. We contrast the ways in which young people's participation in socio-spatial practices, at varying scales, are shaped in different ways specifically because of the immigration procedures they are subjected to. We draw on material from a longitudinal, qualitative research project in which we have used a range of participatory methods with young people aged 13 to 18 who are living in Ireland. [source]

Appraising the trustworthiness of qualitative studies: Guidelines for occupational therapists

AUSTRALIAN OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY JOURNAL, Issue 2 2007
Michael Curtin
Qualitative research provides a valuable source of evidence to enhance occupational therapy practice. Occupational therapists need to consider the issue of trustworthiness prior to deciding whether the findings of qualitative research have relevance to their day-to-day work. By trustworthiness we mean the extent to which the findings are an authentic reflection of the personal or lived experiences of the phenomenon under investigation. In this article we provide guidance to enable occupational therapists to competently determine the trustworthiness of a qualitative research project. We do this by explaining, and illustrating with examples, six considerations that should be taken into account when determining whether the method, findings and interpretation of a qualitative research have been conducted in a trustworthy manner. These considerations are evidence of thick description, triangulation strategies, member-checking, collaboration between the researcher and the researched, transferability and reflexivity. Once the trustworthiness of a qualitative research has been determined, occupational therapists are in a better position to consider how the research findings may impact on their practice. [source]