12 ST Sampling Qualitative Flashcards
- Armer explored nightmares in hospitalized children and recruited both boys and girls from different socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds.
A Convenience or snowball
B Purposive
C Theoretical
ANSWER: B Purposive
Armer used purposive (maximum variation) sampling in recruiting participants with a broad range of characteristics.
- Dinsmore’s grounded theory study involved sampling patients whose experiences helped to better understand the emerging category of lost control.
A Convenience or snowball
B Purposive
C Theoretical
ANSWER: C Theoretical
Dinsmore used theoretical sampling to help develop and refine categories of the grounded theory.
- Oppenheim, in his study of regret among patients who had had genetic testing, asked early participants to refer friends with similar experiences.
A Convenience or snowball
B Purposive
C Theoretical
ANSWER: A Snowball
Oppenheim got referrals for people who regretted having pursued genetic testing from early participants in the sample.
- Skaine’s study of eating patterns and self-esteem in adolescents involved interviews with both anorexic and obese teenagers aged 14 to 17 years.
A Convenience or snowball
B Purposive
C Theoretical
ANSWER: B Purposive
Skaine used purposive (extreme case) sampling in recruiting teenagers at either extreme in terms of their weight
- In her study of injection drug users’ use of health care facilities, Meagher recruited participants by posting a notice on a homeless shelter bulletin board.
A Convenience or snowball
B Purposive
C Theoretical
ANSWER: A Convenience
Meagher recruited drug users using a sample of convenience—those who happened to see the notice in the shelter
