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qualitative study
étude qualitativeCategory label
Qualitative studyEtude qualitativeQ-Code supplementary keywords
narrative based medicinequalitative interview médecine narrativeQ-Code acronym
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qualitative research involves an interpretive naturalistic approach to the world. This means that qualitative researchers study things in their natural settings, attempting to make sense of or interpret phenomena in terms of the meanings people bring to them (Denzin and Lincoln (2000)La recherche qualitative implique une approche naturaliste d'interprétation du monde. Cela signifie que les chercheurs qualitatifs étudient les choses dans leur environnement naturel en tâchant de donner sens ou d'interpréter les situations dans les termes que les gens leur attribuent. (Denzin and Lincoln 2000)Q-Code conceptual content
EXPLANATORY STUDY a study which tries to explain, rather than just describe, certain aspects of health behaviour, disease pattern, or human interaction. The research is often referred to as QUALITATIVE as opposed to QUANTITATIVE. The research method uses the interview as a method of retrieving the necessary information. (Woncadic)IN-DEPTH INTERVIEW an interview method used in qualitative research which aims at understanding the experience from the informant, interpreted by the interviewer. Repeated encounters often help the interviewer (i.e. the researcher) to understand the informant's perspective 76 on his situation and life, as expressed by himself.(Woncadic)INTERVIEW METHODS different methods applied to obtain a case history from a patient. The methods can facilitate or inhibit the communication between the physician and the patient and thereby strongly influence their mutual understanding of the patient's health problem (Woncadic)Narrative Medicine ; NARRATION as a tool to collect and interpret information on a patient's experience of illness (MeSH 2018)NARRATOLOGY is the study of stories. The objective is to understand the meanings of a story, partly from the context in which the story first happened or was told, partly from the individual perspective of the storyteller. (Woncadic)NATURALISTIC ENQUIRY an unobtrusive qualitative method for conducting social enquiry. It does not involve manipulating a research setting. It focusses on activities and changes that take place in social settings, programs, interventions, and treatments as they occur naturally. (Woncadic)PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION a method of research used in qualitative studies to get a better understanding of the way in which patients act in certain situations. (Woncadic)Personal Narratives as Topic Works about accounts of individual experience in relation to a particular field or of participation in related activities.(MeSH)QUALITATIVE DATA ; in medical literature the term can have two meanings: 1. Information characterizing a patient, or whatever unit under study, on a NOMINAL SCALE, e.g. gender, hair colour, death or nationality. Characteristics on an ORDINAL SCALE could be called QUALITATIVE DATA, as opposed to quantitative data on interval or RATIO SCALES. 2. Within research qualitative data are descriptive information about a person's social life or individual perception. The data are derived through IN-DEPTH INTERVIEW, designed as a dialogue between researcher and informant. (Woncadic) QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS means the systematic approach needed to organize and interprete qualitative material on a scientific level. (Woncadic) QUALITATIVE METHODS are research strategies used to obtain knowledge of phenomena. They are also called human science methods, interpretative, ethnographic, or naturalistic approaches. The material is often observations or texts. These research methods are suited to study specific human matters as experiences, interactions, emotions, beliefs, motives, or processes. The intention is for the researcher to understand experiences from the perspective of those being researched. (Woncadic) qualitative research ; Any type of research that employs nonnumeric information to explore individual or group characteristics, producing findings not arrived at by statistical procedures or other quantitative means. Examples include clinical case studies, narrative studies of behavior, ethnography, and organizational or social studies (Dicepid)QUALITATIVE RESEARCH INTERVIEWS are specific conversations intended to generate material for qualitative analysis and subsequent development of knowledge through research. A qualitative research interview is different from the standardized interview of survey studies, where identical questions are asked to all subjects. The dynamics of a research interview is different from the medical interview and requires specific training. (Woncadic)QUALITATIVE RESEARCH the associated methods include participant studies, observational techniques, IN DEPTH INTERVIEWING and field studies with data that are not particularly struc- tured ("often designed to describe the qualities of particular social phenomena"). (Woncadic) Bibliographic link
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