Thematic analysis and IPA Flashcards
1
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What is thematic analysis?
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- Identifying and analysing themes within qualitative data
- Includes an element of interpreting data
- Involves finding related patterns of meanings (themes) within your data sets
2
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What are the phases of Thematic analysis?
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- Familiarising yourself with the text
- Generating initials codes
- Searching for themes
- Reviewing themes
- Defining and naming themes
- Producing a report
3
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What are some pitfalls with thematic analysis?
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- Failure to analyse data
- Using the interview questions as themes
- Weak analysis: themes don’t make sense, overlap too much or fail to capture data
- Mismatch between analytical claims and data, not backed up
4
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What is descriptive phenomenology?
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- Emphasis on bracketing out prior knowledge and biases
- Aims to get a pure understanding
5
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What is interpretative phenomenology?
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- Similar aims but emphasis on the impossibility of separating description and interpretation
- Use knowledge and assumptions to better understand
6
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IPA methods: purposive sampling
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- Participants are selected for the relevance of a research question
- Participants share similar characteristics
7
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IPA methods: ideographic approach
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- Focus on engagement with individuals cases
- Integration comes late in the research process
8
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IPA methods: double hermeneutic
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- First, participant tries to understand their experience
- Then, researcher tries to understand and interpret their account
9
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What are the stages of IPA?
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- Reading and re-reading test
- Identify and label themes
- Structuring the themes
- Summary table
10
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What is integration of cases?
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- Aim to generate a list of master themes that capture the participants shared experiences
- Can make a summary table for each case
- Summary table is constantly being reworked
- End up with a master summary table
