Qualitative Research

• What is qualitative research?


  Approaches that aim to understand social reality of individuals, groups and cultures

  Beliefs, values, experiences of the social world & contextual circumstances (interpretive)

  Aim: provide an in-depth, holistic content-specific understanding
• What are the characteristics of qualitative research?


  •Researchers immerse themselves in the setting of the people whose experiences they wish to explore.

  •Understanding is the aim in itself (rather than predicting).

  •Richly descriptive 

  •The researcher is the primary instrument for data collection and analysis.

  •Data to build concepts, understanding and theories rather than to test hypothesis.
• What are the research Qs for qualitative research?


  Seek to explore or describe phenomena

  Contain words like lived experience, personal experience, understanding, meaning, and stories.
• What are the methods of collecting qualitative research?


  Interviews

  Focus groups

  Life grids

  Diaries

  Photographs

  Objects

  Scrap books
• What are the different types of analysis of qualitative research?

  Thematic

  Phenomenological

  Narrative

  Grounded theory approach

  Affective testual

  Etc.
• NICE approach to patient & public involvement (PPI) based on 2 key principles. What are these?


  Lay people, and organisations representing their interests, contribute to developing NICE guidance, and support their implementation

  Guidance have a greater relevance for the people directly affected by recommendations
• What is content & thematic analysis?


  Summarises & categories themes in the data
• What is narrative analysis?


  Explores lived experiences & social stories, connecting personal identity to culture & history
• What is interprative phenomenological analysis (IPA)?


  Focuses on participant' experiences and how they assign meaning in their interactions
• What is discursive/discourse analysis?


  Examines how language constructs social reality and reveals participant's subjective worlds
• What participatory action research?


  Distinct from other qualitative methodologies, particularly concerning the roles played by the researcher & the participants