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Qualitative Methods for Health Research
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Qualitative Methods for Health Research

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March 2018 | 440 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
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Packed with practical advice and research quick tips, this book is the perfect companion to your health research project. It not only explains the theory of qualitative health research so you can interpret the studies of others, but also showcases how to approach, start, maintain, and disseminate your own research. 

It will help you:

  • Understand the role of the researcher
  • Develop an effective research proposal
  • Seek ethical approval
  • Conduct interviews, observational studies, mixed methods, and web-based designs
  • Use secondary and digital sources
  • Code, manage, and analyse data
  • Write up your results

Whether you are studying public health, sports medicine, occupational therapy, nursing, midwifery, or another health discipline, the authors will be your surrogate supervisors and guide you through evaluating or undertaking any type of health research.

 
Part I: Principles and Approaches in Qualitative Health Research
 
Chapter 1: Qualitative Methodology in Health Research
What is qualitative research?

 
Qualitative research and evidence based practice

 
The orientations of qualitative research

 
Some assumptions about qualitative research

 
 
Chapter 2: The Role of Theory
Macro theory

 
Middle range theory

 
Theories of knowledge

 
 
Chapter 3: Developing Qualitative Research Proposals
Research questions

 
Selecting appropriate study designs

 
Pragmatic influences on research design

 
A qualitative approach to design

 
Writing a research proposal

 
Sampling strategies

 
 
Chapter 4: Responsibilities, Ethics and Values
Values in research

 
Ethical review and codes of practice

 
Informed consent

 
Confidentiality

 
Responsibilities to research participants

 
Ethical dilemmas and conflicts

 
Responsibilities to yourself and co-workers

 
Responsibilities to commissioners and the public

 
 
Part II: Generating Data
 
Chapter 5: In-depth Interviews
The research interview

 
A word on language

 
Language and translation

 
What interviews can and can’t do

 
Asking questions and listening to answers

 
Context and data

 
Planning interviews

 
Using visual methods in interviews

 
 
Chapter 6: Group Interviews and Discussions
An overview of different kinds of groups used in qualitative research

 
Consensus panels

 
Community interviews and participatory methods

 
Focus group discussions

 
Natural groups

 
Advantages of using group interviews

 
Naturalism

 
Limitations

 
Planning group interview studies

 
 
Chapter 7: Observational Methods
Participation and observation

 
Ethnography and medical anthropology

 
Ethnographies of medicine, health and health care

 
Managing fieldwork roles

 
Planning an ethnographic study

 
Rapid ethnographic methods

 
Using participation and observation in interviews

 
Non-participant observation

 
 
Chapter 8: Using Secondary Sources
Why use existing sources?

 
Public records

 
Personal documents

 
Mass media outputs

 
Research outputs

 
Policy reports

 
Material artefacts

 
Methodological issues in using documentary sources

 
 
Chapter 9: Qualitative Research in a Digital Age
Questions about health, health care and technology

 
Researching virtual sites

 
Recruitment on line: social media

 
Technology platforms as part of the context of data generation

 
Ethical issues in digital research

 
Dissemination and knowledge exchange

 
 
Part III: Managing and Analysing Data
 
Chapter 10: Beginning Data Analysis
Styles of analysis

 
Aims of analysis

 
Data preparation and management

 
Qualitative description

 
Thematic content analysis

 
Framework analysis

 
Reliability and validity

 
Computer aided qualitative analysis

 
 
Chapter 11: Developing Qualitative Analysis
Rigour is not enough

 
Discourse analysis

 
Grounded theory

 
Narrative analysis

 
Beyond talk and text

 
Some strategies for thinking more analytically

 
Generalizability and transferability

 
 
Part IV: Qualitative Research in Practice
 
Chapter 12: Integrating Methods, Designs and Disciplines
Rationales for mixing methods within qualitative studies

 
Combining qualitative and quantitative designs

 
Qualitative research within evaluative designs

 
Combining designs in practice

 
Developing trans-disciplinary research

 
Enhancing collaboration

 
 
Chapter 13: Reading, Appraising and Integrating Qualitative Research
Reading critically

 
Formal critical appraisal for empirical studies

 
Criteria in ethnography

 
Systematic reviews

 
Integrating qualitative findings

 
Meta-ethnography

 
 
Chapter 14: Dissemination: reaching and engaging with audiences
The writing process

 
Writing for different audiences

 
Writing for health journals

 
Writing for social science colleagues

 
Practical issues to consider when writing research reports

 
Dissemination from collaborative projects

 
Communicating with non-specialist audiences

 

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I enjoyed reading this. Its an excellent practical book that helped organise and conduct qualitative research, safe in the knowledge that the project would be robust and credible. It also serves a s a useful reference for supervision.

Mr Brian McGowan
School of Nursing (Magee Campus), Ulster University
February 7, 2019
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Judith Green

Judith Green has degrees in anthropology and sociology, and a PhD in the sociology of health. She has taught research methods to a wide range of students over the last 30 years, including undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral students and health professionals from nursing, medicine, public health and sociology. She is currently Professor of Sociology at the University of Exeter, and Honorary Professor, in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Sydney. She has held posts at the King’s College London, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and London South Bank University. Judith has broad substantive... More About Author

Nicki Thorogood

Nicki Thorogood’s first degree was in sociology and social anthropology, and she has a PhD in the sociology of health from the University of London. She has over 30 years’ experience of teaching undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral students and health professionals from nursing, medicine, public health and sociology She is currently Programme Director for the DrPH (Doctorate in Public Health) at LSHTM as well as supervising several research degree students. Before coming to LSHTM (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) in 1999 she held posts at Middlesex University and at Guy’s, King’s and Thomas’s School of Medicine and... More About Author

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