Dec 15

What a great company!! Qualitative with RCT!!

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Verheoff et al (2002)

Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have an important place in the assessment of the efficacy of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). However, they address only one, limited, question, namely whether an intervention has-statistically-an effect. They do not address why the intervention works, how participants are experiencing the intervention, and/or how they give meaning to these experiences. Therefore, we argue that the addition of qualitative research methods to RCTs can greatly enhance understanding of CAM interventions. Qualitative research can assist in understanding the meaning of an intervention to patients as well as patients’ beliefs about the treatment and expectations of the outcome. Qualitative research also assists in understanding the impact of the context and the process of the intervention. Finally, qualitative research is helpful in developing appropriate outcome measures for CAM interventions. Greater understanding of CAM interventions has the potential to improve health care delivery.

Dec 15

Hearing, Listening and Interpreting!!

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The field of public health is full of puzzling questions, complicated relationships, and slowly evolving events– phenomena leaving gaps in understanding that invite qualitative methods to fill

(Rubin and Rubin 1995, p.51)

Probe..

Qualitative research is a tool to better understanding of the human condition.

Qualitative research is more about hearing, listening and interpreting.

How and why… Ask them..

Qualitative researchers seek answers to their questions in the real world. They gather what they see, hear, and read from people and places and from events and activities .. Their purpose is to learn about some aspects of the social world and to generate new understandings that an be used by that social  world.

the first step of grounded theory is start with open mind…

In grounded theory, you should understand contradictory statements.

Research is not a clinical or academic ct, it is human interaction on a very personal level.

I had to be a partner and a listener in the human act of research.

How you position yourself on continuum will ultimately influence the kind of research you conduct.

Positivist

Interpretivist

Feminist

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