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Feb 28
Just had brief discussion with qualitative studies expert. She says,” most of the people are not interested in qualitative as it is time taking.” So far I am enjoying, I don’t know whether I will sustain my interest. I think I am eying on qualitative methods through quantitative prism , and here I guess I am doing mistake. I need to remove those specs. Should I? Let me swim in my data!!
Anything easy or difficult, boring or interesting, lots depend on the instructor/professor. I listen to many students saying good things about respective instructor. Good instructor has the ability to turn boring course in to interesting, whereas , unfortunately, bad instructor has the ability to turn interesting into boring, What are the reasons??? Yes, they are getting back what they have expected of, they are getting back from the professor what they are supposed to get on their plate. Students are not there to attend college JUST to obtain good grades. The most important thing is to learn new skills so that it would help them in future for “future prospect” 🙂 American education industry sums up around 38 billion dollars, its not just to give students grades, BIG NO. To distribute them knowledge in most possible accuarate way, to guide them most possible CLEAR(instructions) way.
For example, Qualitative method course at my college is interesting and worth for investing time.
Feb 22
Today, I was wondering how much radiation dose is required for every anatomical site.. How much dose for kidney, how much dose for brain…. WBRT. whole brain radiation therapy. Many things came to my mind. Before googling out, I keep my curosity intact. I interviewed one radiotherapist. Of course he wasn’t sure as radiooncologist are. But he told,” to my knowlege, it all depends on the size of tumor. I am sure about the spinal cord where radiation dose can’t exceed 45 Gy. For kidney, it is just like 2-3 Gy.” I packed up his interview in 4 minutes after getting valuable inputs. Then I was back in my physician mode, discussed things with one of the helpful colleagues and started reading and correlated the info with my board type questions. Ya, I am making it fun and interesting.
Just when got back to my desk, I received encouraging email from Dr. AM 🙂
Feb 21
Thursday morning, great talk on interesting issue. I will write about this talk in other blog. I met one young Professor from Columbia, who is member of UN NGO committee and doing extensive work in romantic relationships, Interesting topic! He shared his work with me, and I found him good at qualitative studies. We discussed Anthropology, and ethnography in brief. It was great meeting such a great scientist today!
Feb 20
IMRT in radiation oncology is what antibiotics for infectious disease, which both changed the situation to large extent in their respective fields.
The ability of intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) had potential to distribute dose closely around the tumor . However, dynamic IMRT treatment delivery differs from that of conventional treatment because of the constantly moving multileaf collimators (MLCs) and higher monitor units (MUs) required. The implementation of new technology can be affected by the users response. Radiographers’ attitudes regarding technology and their perceptions of the clinical implementation of IMRT were explored using a qualitative study based on semi-structured interviews. 16 radiographers were interviewed and data was analysed using a framework analysis to identify themes and categories. The majority of radiographers (12/16) demonstrated positive attitudes regarding technology. The introduction of IMRT was seen to be stimulating and motivating. Negative aspects were associated with increased stress from learning new skills and the additional pressure of the increased workload. Although there were contradictory views regarding the effect of the increased use of technology on the patient-radiographer relationship, technological skills and patient care were not found to be mutually exclusive. Radiographers’ perceptions regarding the clinical implementation of IMRT appeared to be influenced by their mainly positive attitudes regarding technology. With the current problems of recruitment and retention of radiographers, full exploitation of modern technology could be used to improve job satisfaction. However, careful integration is required to balance training needs with service demands.
Feb 12
Mortensen GL, Paaske PB.Patients perceive tonsil cancer as a strike at psycho-socially “vital organs”.Dan Med J. 2012 Sep;59(9):A4504.
Tonsil cancer (TC) is a type of head and neck cancer (HNC) that is predominantly associated with infection with human papilloma virus (HPV). In Denmark, the incidence of HPV-related HNC has increased fivefold over the past three decades. HNC more often affects men than women, and HPV-related HNC tends to affect younger age groups than other HNCs. The present study examined the long-term health-related quality of life (QoL) in patients with TC.
METHODS:
A medical anthropological approach was applied using individual qualitative interviews with seven former TC patients. The participants included men and women who had undergone various treatments, i.e. radiation therapy, chemotherapy and operation. Data were analyzed using a narrative methodology.
RESULTS:
Treatment sequelae peaked within the first three months and included severe pain in the radiated area, nausea and fatigue. Within this period, patients were unable to eat solid food and often had difficulty speaking. Half of the participants lost some of their hearing due to radiation. Even two years after treatment, most participants had persisting sequelae, mainly xerostomia, porous teeth and reduced mobility of the tongue and jaw. Fatigue and difficulties eating and communicating, in particular, had a very negative effect on the participants’ psycho-social QoL.
CONCLUSION:
This study allowed for a deeper understanding of the negative effects of HNC on patients’ QoL. These QoL effects ought to be included in future considerations of HPV vaccination of boys as well as girls.
Source: Database pubmed
Feb 11
Thanks to my one of best friends for giving me two hours on Qualitative data analysis with Invivo last Sunday. Already aware of Dedoose, I throughly enjoyed discussing Invivo with my Amiga. . Discussing qualitative methods while dinning is great piece of quality itsfel. How can we make every moment fruitful and use it effciently, that is what I am experiencing in this nourishing country.
*Coding in Invivo is called nodes.
* For example, suppose we are doing the research on romantic relationships… Then we can code transcript into noded like… pleasure, anger, love, affection, obsession. How obsessive parner is in relationship, if this is the topic, then it is important to highlight words
*Invivo give us the frequency of all words. Then it make the words bigger as per the word frequency, this is even available with google’s program.
*Kappa gives value when we compare the interpretation by various researchers on the same nodes.
Feb 11
I met one of Columbia Professors today, who has been doing extensive qualitative research in India. I had qualitiful 10 minutes with this professor. She focussed light on her work in Rajasthan and how she is fond of Rajasthan and Udaipur. She is presently doing lot of work on NGOs related things in India–How non governemnt organizations works inIndia.
“In our period it was more individual, now its more teamwork.
I still do it manually. Inivo just make it simple, it doenot do analysis.”
Her main foucs is on toursim now. Accroding to her, students are not that interested in qualitative compared to quantitative. Probably, she hasn’t heard of our Lehman Professor 🙂
Feb 03
“The more I read the transcripts of the dinner conversation, listened to the tapes, and watched the videos, the more I became intrigued with the richness of dinner talk as a prime site of pragmatic socialization. ”
Author Shoshana Kulka
I just started reading this book, which entails beautiful description of conversation of Israeli Jewish families and American Jewish families when they dine together. I am wondering how this book is so interesting in light of ethnographic and anthropological research 🙂
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