Qualitative

Question 0

Relationship between knower and known

Answer 0

Subject-subject

Intent is to understand others.

Question 1

Primary assumptions with qualitative research (4)

Answer 1

Multiple realities
Value bound
Non-causal
Situation specific

Question 2

Define: qualitative research

Answer 2

Seeks to describe the complex nature of humans and how individuals perceive their own experiences within a specific social context

Question 3

Method: grounded theory

Answer 3

Allows researcher to develop a hypothesis as the data unfolds; exploratory with few predetermined expectations; goal is to create a theory

Question 4

Reasons to use qualitative methods

Answer 4

To determine patient values
To create or modify a theory
To create an idea or question that can be quantified, measured, tested

Question 5

Method: phenomenology

Answer 5

Constructing and drawing meaning from the lived experience
The study of essences
A search for what it means to be human
Reality consists of objects and events only as they are perceived

Question 6

Method: ethnography

Answer 6

Study of social milieu of a specific cultural group of people
Attempt to understand the cultural forces that shape human behavior

Question 7

Primary assumptions with quantitative research (4)

Answer 7

One objective reality
Value free
Causal
Generalizable