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Advantages Quantitative
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Advantages
- Measurement: quantity is powerful tool in producing data on phenomena
- Rigour: methods transparent
- Internal validity: method are able to explain phenomena with independent and dependent variables explaining cause and effect
- Generalisability to large population
- Replicability by others
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Disadvantages Quantitative
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- Social world diff from natural world
- Measures used by positivist researchers are artificial, measuring the constructs of researcher and not life as it is lived by respondents
- Surveys only measure responses at a single point in time, but people have the capacity for change and self-reflection
- Positivist methods are less effective at determining why people act as they do
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Advantages of Qualitative
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- Flexibility of thinking
- Flexibility in interpretation of data
- Rich description: findings based on an empathetic understanding of the research participants
- Compensation: qualitative methods can be used to investigate areas where quantitative methods are inappropriate
- Validity: qualitative methods are high on internal validity as they draw of understanding of research participants
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disadvantages of Qualitative
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- Observer bias
- Lack of consensus
- Lack of focus: sometimes too broad
- Lack of generalisability: undertaken with a small number of participants
- Poor replication
- Time costly
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Not mixed methods
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- Having both quantitative and qualitative data available
- Collection and reporting separately without combining them
- Using multiple quantitative or qualitative approaches AKA multi-method research
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why is it important to know the research design
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- Many different research designs with different purposes
- Strength and limitations well established
- To know which design is ‘best’ design to look for when you are looking for the bet available evidence
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Ethical issues in health research
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- Voluntary participation
- No harm
- Anonymity and confidentiality
- Deception
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5 categories of study desigm
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- Experimental
- Quasi experimental
- Observational
- Systematic reviews
- Qualitative
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What is a paradigm
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is a framework for a set of beliefs about what should be studied, what methods should be used, and how data should be interpreted
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How does qualitative contribute
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- Illustrate meaning
- Study how things work
- Capture stories to understand people’s perspectives and experiences
- Elucidate how systems function and their consequences for people’s lives
- Understand context: how and why it matters
- Identify unanticipated consequences
- Compare cases to discover important patterns and themes across cases
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What are the 12 core strategies of qualitative inquiry
- Design Strategies
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- Naturalistic inquiry: involves natural environment to understand human behaviour
- Design flexibility: Research design flexibility due to open-ended nature of naturalistic inquiry and pragmatic decisions
- Purposeful sampling: no rule for sample size in qualitative, choose data sources that can inform the phenomenon being investigated
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What are the 12 core strategies of qualitative inquiry
Data Collect and Fieldwork Stratergies
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- Data collection methods
- Personal experience and engagement
- Empathic neutrality: being non-judgmental and empathetic to build trust, sit in the middle (not too involved or too distant), mindfulness
- Dynamic systems perspective: shift and change methods as needed
- When interviewing disability/illness:
- -Gain ongoing consent (particularly if people have memory loss)
- -Ask if participant would like a break (especially if topic is emotional, or they fatigue quickly, or are in pain)
- -Ask if participant would like a family member present (e.g., for supportor as a prompt)
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What are the 12 core strategies of qualitative inquiry
Analysis and Reporting Stratergies
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- Unique case orientation
- Inductive analysis and creative synthesis
- Holistic perspective
- Context sensitivity
- Reflexivity: perspective & voice
