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This book is a comprehensive guide to selecting approaches and carrying out qualitative research. Rather than being prescriptive, it provides information on various data collection procedures and how to make decisions about specific qualitative approaches. Its aim is to extend researchersâ understanding of the participants in research, be they patients, peers or students, and to improve clinical practice on the basis of evidence from qualitative studies. Each chapter is illustrated with examples of research projects.

Topics discussed include:

  • The nature of qualitative research
  • The selection of a specific qualitative research approach
  • The collection and analysis of qualitative data
  • Writing up qualitative research
Written by contributors who are academics and/or practitioners from a variety of health professions and disciplines, Qualitative Research in Health Care is key reading for all health professionals, academic and clinical, who are involved in res

Table of Contents
Introduction: Aim and readership

Part 1: Starting out

Is there an epistemology for qualitative research?
Ethical issues in qualitative health research

Part 2: Collecting data

Interviewing
Focus group research: using group dynamics to explore perceptions, experiences and understandings
Observing method: recognizing the significance of belief, discipline, position and documentation in observational studies

Part 3: Choosing an approach

The status of method: flexibility, consistency and coherence
Clarifying the life-world: descriptive phenomenology
Hermeneutic phenomenology: the science of interpretation of texts
Grounded theory: the methodology
Ethnographic exploration: participation and meaning in everyday life
Narrative analysis: exploring the whats And hows of personal stories
Action research for changing and improving practice
Navigating a qualitative course in programme evaluation
Engaging feminist thought in research: a participatory approach
Qualitative writing

Conclusion: after completion

Glossary of main terms
Index

Qualitative Research in Health Care

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      Publisher: Open University Press
      Publication Date: 16/06/2005
      ISBN13: 9780335212934, 978-0335212934
      ISBN10: 033521293X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book is a comprehensive guide to selecting approaches and carrying out qualitative research. Rather than being prescriptive, it provides information on various data collection procedures and how to make decisions about specific qualitative approaches. Its aim is to extend researchersâ understanding of the participants in research, be they patients, peers or students, and to improve clinical practice on the basis of evidence from qualitative studies. Each chapter is illustrated with examples of research projects.

      Topics discussed include:

      • The nature of qualitative research
      • The selection of a specific qualitative research approach
      • The collection and analysis of qualitative data
      • Writing up qualitative research
      Written by contributors who are academics and/or practitioners from a variety of health professions and disciplines, Qualitative Research in Health Care is key reading for all health professionals, academic and clinical, who are involved in res

      Table of Contents
      Introduction: Aim and readership

      Part 1: Starting out

      Is there an epistemology for qualitative research?
      Ethical issues in qualitative health research

      Part 2: Collecting data

      Interviewing
      Focus group research: using group dynamics to explore perceptions, experiences and understandings
      Observing method: recognizing the significance of belief, discipline, position and documentation in observational studies

      Part 3: Choosing an approach

      The status of method: flexibility, consistency and coherence
      Clarifying the life-world: descriptive phenomenology
      Hermeneutic phenomenology: the science of interpretation of texts
      Grounded theory: the methodology
      Ethnographic exploration: participation and meaning in everyday life
      Narrative analysis: exploring the whats And hows of personal stories
      Action research for changing and improving practice
      Navigating a qualitative course in programme evaluation
      Engaging feminist thought in research: a participatory approach
      Qualitative writing

      Conclusion: after completion

      Glossary of main terms
      Index

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