HLTB15H3 Lecture 6: Analyzing Qualitative Research
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Documents: reports, diaries, minutes of meetings, scripts, policies, care pathways, training materials. Interactions between people: naturally occurring, events, ceremonies, rituals, performances. Artifacts, symbols and cultural objects: films, paintings, signs, advertisements, etc. Iterative: evolving process that occurs alongside data collection. Inductive: analysis tends to work from what you have in your case to the general. Researcher centered: the researcher influences the questions posed, design and analysis. Lecture 6: definition of a group of text directly describing quotes or phrases described by study participants. Example: i didn"t like it when the doctor didn"t include me (code: wants to be included) Categories: combinations of codes that fit together. Example: fitting together the following codes into category of belonging (wants to be included, fitting in) Themes: combinations of different categories that are related. Example: combining various categories into one major construct or idea. Approaches to the analysis of qualitative data: content analysis, grounded theory, discourse analysis a. i. Develop relevant categories for analyzing the data.
