Qualitative Flashcards

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Search Strategies

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  • Population
  • Situation
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Clues

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  • Discover
  • Explore
  • Describe
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Inductive Reasoning

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  • Theory developing
  • Start with experience details, move to general picture
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4
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Emic Perspective

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Insider

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When to Use

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  • Inadequate previous understanding
  • Make sense of complex/changing phenomena
  • Learn about meaning, experience
  • Discover theory in data
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6
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Phenomenological

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Related to lived experience

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7
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Phenomenological Data Gathering

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Written or oral in-depth interview

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Phenomenological Data Analysis

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Synthesis of participant description, themes, patterns

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Grounded Theory

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Construct theory related to social process from human interaction perspective

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Grounded Theory Data Gathering

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  • In-depth interviews
  • Participant observation
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Grounded Theory Data Analysis

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  • Simultaneously with data collection
  • Uses comparative method
  • Uncover key concepts & constructs
  • Identify links
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12
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Ethnographic

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Description & interpretation of cultural or social groups & systems

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Ethnographic Data Gathering

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  • Participant observation
  • Immersion in the setting
  • Informant interviews
  • Researcher interpretation of cultural patterns
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Ethnographic Data Analysis

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  • Data collected & analyzed simultaneously
  • Examine meaning of cultural values, beliefs, symbols, norms
  • Examine language, semantics
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15
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Participatory Action

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Exploration of, reflection on & action on social & health problems

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Participatory Action Data Gathering

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  • Interviews
  • Field observation
  • Gather & review of relevant documents
  • Examine relevant materials & equipment
  • Literature review
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Participatory Action Data Analysis

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  • Reflect on data gathered
  • Reduce into organized concepts & ideas
  • Significant experience primary unit of analysis
  • Code data to reveal patterns/themes
  • Key for participants to make sense of experience & use understanding to make positive change
  • Ongoing evaluation of process with stakeholders
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Purposive Sampling

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Hand pick ‘typical’ elements using specific criteria

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Snowball/Network Sampling

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  • Useful for hard-to-locate elements
  • Participants know others with same condition
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Theoretical Sampling

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  • Grounded theory building
  • Selected based on theoretical relevance to further development of emerging categories
21
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Credibility

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  • Prolonged engagement
  • Persistent observation
  • Peer debriefing
  • Member checks
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Audibility

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Ability to replicate process

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Fittingness

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Ability to accurately describe everyday life of participants

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Reflexivity

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  • Ongoing throughout study
  • Critical self-reflection of one’s bias, preconceptions
25
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Audit Trail

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  • Ongoing throughout study
  • Reviewing all documents relating to study
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Data Collection

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  • Prolonged engagement
  • Persistant observation
  • Comprehensive field notes
  • Audio recording & verbatim transcription
  • Data saturation
  • Member checking
27
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Triangulation

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Use of multiple methods/data sources in qualitative research to develop comprehensive understanding of phenomena

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Data Triangulation

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Use of multiple data sources to validate conclusions

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Person Triangulation

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  • Collecting data from different types/levels of people
  • Validates data through multiple perspectives
30
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Method Triangulation

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Using multiple methods of data collection

31
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Investigator Triangulation

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Two or more researchers to make decisions

32
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Constructivist Paradigm Assumptions

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  • Reality is not a fixed entity
  • Truth is based on individual perception
  • Subjective
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Critical Paradigm

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  • Those with the most power in particular points in history
  • Subjective