Qualitative Research and CBPR Flashcards
What are the purposes of qualitative research?
1-Exploratory research.
2-Enhance depth and validity of quantitative inquiries.
3-Precursor to implementing health promotion programs.
What is a paradigm?
Model, pattern, or example that may be influential in shaping the development of a discipline.
What is positivism?
View that serious scientific inquiry should confine itself to the study of relations existing between facts that can be observed.
Objective and tests theories.
What is interpretivism?
View that reality is socially constructed because each individual perceives, understands, experiences, and makes meaning of reality in different ways.
Overall aim is to understand others’ realities and relate them to one’s own reality.
What are the five characteristics of qualitative research?
- Naturalistic
- Data are descriptive
- Concern with process
- Inductive
- Meaning is the goal
What does it mean to be naturalistic?
Lack of manipulation or control.
Data collected in natural setting.
High level of context.
What does it mean that the data are descriptive?
Represented in words, pictures, videos, notes, etc.
What does it mean to be concerned with the process?
Focused on how it came to be rather than WHAT came to be.
What does it mean to be inductive?
Derives general pattern from observations that may eventually become hypotheses.
Ongoing, dynamic, and emerging.
Small to big.
What does it mean that the meaning is the goal?
- Perspective of PPTs in main concern.
- Acknowledge biases.
What is exploratory qualitative research?
- Gathers observations using naturalistic approach.
- Defines patterns grounded in data.
- Insider POV: emic.
- Context is important: research seeks to provide an understanding based on experiences of PPTs in a particular setting.
What is triangulation?
Combination of different researchers, theories, methods, and data sources in a study that leads to a more complete analysis.
What is investigator triangulation?
Uses multidisciplinary research team with varied experience.
Increase internal reliability or validity of studies.
What is theoretical triangulation?
Use of multiple theories or framework in one study to test hypotheses.
What is data triangulation?
Use of several data sources in one study.
What is method triangulation?
Use of multiple data collection strategies to answer same research question.
What is within-methods triangulation?
Uses multiple data collection strategies from same approach (quantitative or qualitative). Simultaneous triangulation.
What is between-methods triangulation?
Qualitative and quantitative analysed at same time and not equally weighted.