Green / Thorogood Qualitative Methods for Health Research

4. Fourth Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-5264-4879-8
Verlag: SAGE Publications
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 440 Seiten, EPUB

Reihe: Introducing Qualitative Methods series

Packed with practical advice and research quick tips, this book is the perfect companion to your health research project. It not only explains the theory of qualitative health research so you can interpret the studies of others, but also showcases how to approach, start, maintain, and disseminate your own research. 
It will help you:

Understand the role of the researcher
Develop an effective research proposal
Seek ethical approval
Conduct interviews, observational studies, mixed methods, and web-based designs
Use secondary and digital sources
Code, manage, and analyse data
Write up your results

Whether you are studying public health, sports medicine, occupational therapy, nursing, midwifery, or another health discipline, the authors will be your surrogate supervisors and guide you through evaluating or undertaking any type of health research.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Green, Judith

Thorogood, Nicki

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Principles and Approaches in Qualitative Health Research

Chapter 1: Qualitative Methodology in Health Research

What is qualitative research?

Qualitative research and evidence based practice

The orientations of qualitative research

Some assumptions about qualitative research

Chapter 2: The Role of Theory

Macro theory

Middle range theory

Theories of knowledge

Chapter 3: Developing Qualitative Research Proposals

Research questions

Selecting appropriate study designs

Pragmatic influences on research design

A qualitative approach to design

Writing a research proposal

Sampling strategies

Chapter 4: Responsibilities, Ethics and Values

Values in research

Ethical review and codes of practice

Informed consent

Confidentiality

Responsibilities to research participants

Ethical dilemmas and conflicts

Responsibilities to yourself and co-workers

Responsibilities to commissioners and the public

Part II: Generating Data

Chapter 5: In-depth Interviews

The research interview

A word on language

Language and translation

What interviews can and can’t do

Asking questions and listening to answers

Context and data

Planning interviews

Using visual methods in interviews

Chapter 6: Group Interviews and Discussions

An overview of different kinds of groups used in qualitative research

Consensus panels

Community interviews and participatory methods

Focus group discussions

Natural groups

Advantages of using group interviews

Naturalism

Limitations

Planning group interview studies

Chapter 7: Observational Methods

Participation and observation

Ethnography and medical anthropology

Ethnographies of medicine, health and health care

Managing fieldwork roles

Planning an ethnographic study

Rapid ethnographic methods

Using participation and observation in interviews

Non-participant observation

Chapter 8: Using Secondary Sources

Why use existing sources?

Public records

Personal documents

Mass media outputs

Research outputs

Policy reports

Material artefacts

Methodological issues in using documentary sources

Chapter 9: Qualitative Research in a Digital Age

Questions about health, health care and technology

Researching virtual sites

Recruitment on line: social media

Technology platforms as part of the context of data generation

Ethical issues in digital research

Dissemination and knowledge exchange

Part III: Managing and Analysing Data

Chapter 10: Beginning Data Analysis

Styles of analysis

Aims of analysis

Data preparation and management

Qualitative description

Thematic content analysis

Framework analysis

Reliability and validity

Computer aided qualitative analysis

Chapter 11: Developing Qualitative Analysis

Rigour is not enough

Discourse analysis

Grounded theory

Narrative analysis

Beyond talk and text

Some strategies for thinking more analytically

Generalizability and transferability

Part IV: Qualitative Research in Practice

Chapter 12: Integrating Methods, Designs and Disciplines

Rationales for mixing methods within qualitative studies

Combining qualitative and quantitative designs

Qualitative research within evaluative designs

Combining designs in practice

Developing trans-disciplinary research

Enhancing collaboration

Chapter 13: Reading, Appraising and Integrating Qualitative Research

Reading critically

Formal critical appraisal for empirical studies

Criteria in ethnography

Systematic reviews

Integrating qualitative findings

Meta-ethnography

Chapter 14: Dissemination: reaching and engaging with audiences

The writing process

Writing for different audiences

Writing for health journals

Writing for social science colleagues

Practical issues to consider when writing research reports

Dissemination from collaborative projects

Communicating with non-specialist audiences

Über Autor(innen)

Green, Judith

Judith Green has degrees in anthropology and sociology, and a PhD in the sociology of heath.  She has taught research methods to a wide range of students over the last 30 years, including undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral students and health professionals from nursing, medicine, public health and sociology.  She is currently Professor of Sociology of Health at King’s College London, and has held posts at the London School of Hygiene and Medicine and London South Bank University.   Judith has broad substantive interests in the sociology of health and health services, and has researched and published on primary care, professional identity, accidental injury, public understanding of risk and the relationships between transport and wellbeing.  She is currently co-editor of the journal Critical Public Health.  Other publications include Risk and Misfortune: the social construction of accidents (1997, UCL Press); Critical Perspectives in Public Health, co-edited with Ronald Labonté (2008, Routledge) and Analysing Health Policy: a sociological approach (1998, Longman), also co-authored with Nicki Thorogood.  

Thorogood, Nicki

Nicki Thorogood’s first degree was in sociology and social anthropology, and she has a PhD in the sociology of health from the University of London. She has over 30 years experience of teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students. Before coming to LSHTM (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) in 1999 she held posts at Middlesex University and at Guy’s King’s and Thomas’s School of Medicine and Dentistry (GKT).

Her research interests are primarily in qualitative research into aspects of ‘identity’, e.g. ethnicity, gender, disability and sexuality and in the sociology of the body. She is also interested in the intersection of mental health with public health and health promotion. She supervises several research degree students. She is Series Editor, with Rosalind Plowman, of the Understanding Public Health series of textbooks published by Open University Press.