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Question 1

What is qualitative research

Answer 1

set of research approaches that are based on holistic-type philosophical frameworks and use inductive forms of reasoning to derive information

Question 2

What are the 5 types of qualitative research designs?

Answer 2

1. Phenomenology
2. Grounded Theory
3. Participatory Action Research
4. Ethnography
5. Naturalistic Meta-Analysis

Question 3

Characteristics of phenomenology

Answer 3

• collection and analysis of PEOPLE’S PERCEPTIONS related to a specific phenomena
• to discover meaning of lived experience through those that experience it
• how someone experiences, relates and understands phenomena
• narratives
  TO DISCOVER MEANING OF LIVED EXPERIENCE

Question 4

Characteristics of grounded theory

Answer 4

• systematic discovery of theory from the data of social research
• to evolve a theory in the context in which the phenomenon under study occurs. The theory that emerges is intimately linked to daily life experience that it seeks to explain
• investigator directed
  TO GENERATE THEORY

Question 5

Characteristics of Participatory Action Research

Answer 5

• to generate knowledge to inform responsive action
• work w/groups and communities experiencing issues and needs related to health etc.
• participation of those who are most qualified to experience it
• grounded in experience of participants
• action oriented
• 3 levels of participants: people experiencing it, research and collaborators working together, collaborators communicating w/research
• Four main principles:
  –> Democracy
  –> Equity
  –> Liberation
  –> Life enhancing
  TO GENERATE KNOWLEDGE TO INFORMATION

Question 6

Characteristics of ethnography

Answer 6

• involves field activity
• to understand the underlying patterns of behaviour and the meanings of culture
• the ethnographer seeks to obtain insider perspective through extended observation, immersion and participation. seeks to understand rules of behaviour
  TO UNDERSTAND CULTURE

Question 7

What is the difference b/w ethnography and other designs?

Answer 7

Investigator involvement is significant
Structures of the study is not predefined
capable to move beyond description to real complex relationships, patterns and theory

Question 8

Characteristics of naturalistic meta-analysis

Answer 8

• to generate small and different sets from which to derive a global synthesis. Uses multiple independently conducted studies to synthesize and analyse as a single data set to answer a research Q.
  SYNTHESIS BODY OF KNOWLEDGE