Week 6

Question 1

What is Qualitative research?

Answer 1

focuses on everyday life of people
intrested in social words
freq used in nursing

Question 2

Why are Qual methods used?

Answer 2

useful when little info
collect 'rich' data, and gives insight into peoples lifes
smaller scale
holistic
'emic' perspective

Question 3

What does holistic mean?

Answer 3

focus on the whole person

Question 4

What does ‘Emic’ perspective mean?

Answer 4

insiders point of view, experience and feelings

Question 5

How is Qual data collected?

Answer 5

observation

in-depth interview, indiv or groups

Question 6

What are the 3 types of qual studies?

Answer 6

ethnography
phenomenology
ground theory

Question 7

What is ethnography?

Answer 7

study of culture

origins in anthropology

Question 8

What is phenomenology?

Answer 8

study of phenomena

study of lived experience of individual

Question 9

What is ground theory?

Answer 9

developed by Glaser & Strauss
Specific set of methods - generates a theory
hypotheses generated

Question 10

What is a theory?

Answer 10

a set of ideas of how something may work

Question 11

What is a key concept in qualitative research?

Answer 11

constructivism

interpretation

Question 12

What is constructivism?

Answer 12

reality on exists because it has been constructed by us through our human activity
individuals create meaning through interactions

Question 13

What is interpretation?

Answer 13

way that we constantly interpret what happen in our social world

Question 14

Qualitative researches believe?

Answer 14

the social world constructed through human act

Question 15

Samples in Qual studies size?

Answer 15

are usually small

Question 16

A methodological approach that studies the person has lived experience in is?

Answer 16

phneomenology