HRSS 2 Flashcards

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Advantages Quantitative

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Advantages

  • Measurement: quantity is powerful tool in producing data on phenomena
  • Rigour: methods transparent
  • Internal validity: method are able to explain phenomena with independent and dependent variables explaining cause and effect
  • Generalisability to large population
  • Replicability by others
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Disadvantages Quantitative

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  • Social world diff from natural world
  • Measures used by positivist researchers are artificial, measuring the constructs of researcher and not life as it is lived by respondents
  • Surveys only measure responses at a single point in time, but people have the capacity for change and self-reflection
  • Positivist methods are less effective at determining why people act as they do
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Advantages of Qualitative

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  • Flexibility of thinking
  • Flexibility in interpretation of data
  • Rich description: findings based on an empathetic understanding of the research participants
  • Compensation: qualitative methods can be used to investigate areas where quantitative methods are inappropriate
  • Validity: qualitative methods are high on internal validity as they draw of understanding of research participants
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disadvantages of Qualitative

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  • Observer bias
  • Lack of consensus
  • Lack of focus: sometimes too broad
  • Lack of generalisability: undertaken with a small number of participants
  • Poor replication
  • Time costly
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Not mixed methods

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  • Having both quantitative and qualitative data available
  • Collection and reporting separately without combining them
  • Using multiple quantitative or qualitative approaches AKA multi-method research
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why is it important to know the research design

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  • Many different research designs with different purposes
  • Strength and limitations well established
  • To know which design is ‘best’ design to look for when you are looking for the bet available evidence
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Ethical issues in health research

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  1. Voluntary participation
  2. No harm
  3. Anonymity and confidentiality
  4. Deception
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5 categories of study desigm

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  1. Experimental
  2. Quasi experimental
  3. Observational
  4. Systematic reviews
  5. Qualitative
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What is a paradigm

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is a framework for a set of beliefs about what should be studied, what methods should be used, and how data should be interpreted

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How does qualitative contribute

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  1. Illustrate meaning
  2. Study how things work
  3. Capture stories to understand people’s perspectives and experiences
  4. Elucidate how systems function and their consequences for people’s lives
  5. Understand context: how and why it matters
  6. Identify unanticipated consequences
  7. Compare cases to discover important patterns and themes across cases
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What are the 12 core strategies of qualitative inquiry

- Design Strategies

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  1. Naturalistic inquiry: involves natural environment to understand human behaviour
  2. Design flexibility: Research design flexibility due to open-ended nature of naturalistic inquiry and pragmatic decisions
  3. Purposeful sampling: no rule for sample size in qualitative, choose data sources that can inform the phenomenon being investigated
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What are the 12 core strategies of qualitative inquiry

Data Collect and Fieldwork Stratergies

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  1. Data collection methods
  2. Personal experience and engagement
  3. Empathic neutrality: being non-judgmental and empathetic to build trust, sit in the middle (not too involved or too distant), mindfulness
  4. Dynamic systems perspective: shift and change methods as needed
    - When interviewing disability/illness:
    - -Gain ongoing consent (particularly if people have memory loss)
    - -Ask if participant would like a break (especially if topic is emotional, or they fatigue quickly, or are in pain)
    - -Ask if participant would like a family member present (e.g., for supportor as a prompt)
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What are the 12 core strategies of qualitative inquiry

Analysis and Reporting Stratergies

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  1. Unique case orientation
  2. Inductive analysis and creative synthesis
  3. Holistic perspective
  4. Context sensitivity
  5. Reflexivity: perspective & voice
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