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Focus groups as qualitative research / by Morgan, David L.

We test whether significant differences in mental illness exist in a matched sample of Mental illness and the criminal justice system. In T. L. Scheid T. N. Brown (Eds.), A handbook for the study of mental health: Social contexts, theories. Find 9780521567633 A Handbook for the Study of Mental Health : Social Contexts, Theories, and Systems by Horwitz et al at over 30 bookstores. Buy, rent. A review of mental health problems in fathers following the birth of a child. for the study of mental health:Social contexts, theories, and systems (2nd ed., pp.

A Handbook for the Study of Mental Health: Social Contexts, Theories, and Systems

This paper describes the application of mixed method designs in implementation research in 22 mental health services research studies published in peer-reviewed journals over the last 5 years. Our analyses revealed 7 different structural arrangements of qualitative and quantitative methods, 5 different functions of mixed methods, and 3 different ways of linking quantitative and qualitative data together. Complexity of design was associated with number of aims or objectives, study context, and phase of implementation examined. The findings provide suggestions for the use of mixed method designs in implementation research.

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Mixed Method Designs in Implementation Research

Diligence and a strong sense of mission have shaped how Paul Farmer, a well-published anthropologist physician, undertook the study of Do Kay, a small Haitian village struck by the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). His method of research goes beyond his being the participant observer who conducted interviews and recorded what he saw and heard over a period of almost a decade. Farmer evidently identified with the Do Kay community, winning the confidence of its people, becoming the trusted recipient of their intimate insights and disclosures. Casual discussions, rumors, complaints, spontaneous reactions to radio and TV broadcasts, political and religious opinions are all ably assimilated and interwoven into the narrative. Thus this work supersedes the limitations normally attached to the rigors of scientific objectivity. Even if this approach departs somewhat from the conventions of traditional anthropology and closes the door on the likelihood of its ever being replicated, the work is

AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame

OBJECTIVE: This study examined the frequency and associated distress of potentially traumatic or harmful experiences occurring within psychiatric settings among persons with severe mental illness who were served by a public-sector mental health system. METHODS: Participants were 142 randomly selected adult psychiatric patients who were recruited through a day hospital program. Participants completed a battery of self-report measures to assess traumatic and harmful events that occurred during the course of their mental health care, lifetime trauma exposure, and symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder. RESULTS: Data revealed high rates of reported lifetime trauma that occurred within psychiatric settings, including physical assault (31 percent), sexual assault (8 percent), and witnessing traumatic events (63 percent). The reported rates of potentially harmful experiences, such as being around frightening or violent patients (54 percent), were also high. Finally, reported rates of institutional measures of...

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Patients' reports of traumatic or harmful experiences within the psychiatric setting.

Lower income mothers who bring their children for mental health services also have high rates of depression and anxiety, yet few seek help. Maternal and child mental health are intimately intertwined; thus, the distress of both is likely to continue if the mother’s needs are unaddressed. Because mothers overcome numerous instrumental challenges to help their children, the authors identify potential perceptual barriers to mothers’ help seeking. An ethnographic analysis of in-depth qualitative interviews with 127 distressed mothers suggests several critical perceptual factors. For example, mothers attributed their distress to external causes (e.g., poverty, negative life stressors), which they believed individually focused mental health services could not affect. Interviewees also anticipated negative ramifications for seeking care, including being labeled unfit mothers, and thus potentially losing custody of their children. The authors discuss the implications of these and other key themes for engaging lower income mothers and their children.

Why Lower Income Mothers Do Not Engage With the Formal Mental Health Care System: Perceived Barriers to Care

OBJECTIVE: Recent studies show a high prevalence of trauma symptoms among people with serious mental illness who are treated in public-sector mental health systems. Unfortunately, growing evidence suggests that many consumers have had traumatic or harmful experiences while being treated in various psychiatric settings. This study explores consumers' perceptions of such harmful inpatient experiences, events that the authors place under the rubric of "sanctuary harm." METHODS: The authors conducted semistructured qualitative interviews with 27 randomly selected mental health consumers to hear their descriptions of adverse events that they experienced while receiving psychiatric care. Our analysis of interview transcriptions focused on understanding consumers' narratives of harmful experiences—events that would not meet DSM-IV criteria for trauma but that nevertheless resulted in significant distress. RESULTS: Eighteen of 27 interviewees described harmful incidents that they had witnessed or experienced dire...

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Consumers' Perceptions of Negative Experiences and "Sanctuary Harm" in Psychiatric Settings

Increasingly, contemporary mental health services research projects aim to combine qualitative and quantitative components. Yet researchers often lack theoretical and practical guidance for undertaking such studies. In September 2006 the authors convened under the auspices of the National Institute of Mental Health at a working conference, “Mixed Methods in Community-Based Mental Health Services Research.” This meeting provided the opportunity for participants to share their experiences in conducting mixed-methods research, to critically consider problems they had encountered and their solutions, and to develop guiding principles for others conducting similar research. The authors' discussions, which are described in this article, emphasize that the problems encountered by mixed-methods research teams are rarely simple misunderstandings but often reflect epistemological differences that are overlooked in the study planning phases. Failure to acknowledge these different worldviews may result in significant tensions between members of the study team, use of qualitative methods that are insufficient or inappropriate for a particular research question, or serious conflicts when team members belatedly discover they are interpreting key concepts—or each other's research techniques—differently. The authors conclude that ongoing communication is the organizing principle for robust and effective mixed-methods research. Among the recommendations for preventing problems are collaboration between quantitative and qualitative researchers during the study design phase; open acknowledgement of the philosophical approaches brought to the study by various team members; and because not all challenges can be anticipated, a shared willingness to negotiate emerging problems.

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Dialogues on Mixed-Methods and Mental Health Services Research: Anticipating Challenges, Building Solutions

The use of qualitative data analysis software (QDAS) has expanded over the last two decades, with new technology allowing researchers to analyze more data, faster, and in more complex ways. However...

Cynthia S. Robins

Papers

Patients' reports of traumatic or harmful experiences within the psychiatric setting.

Why Lower Income Mothers Do Not Engage With the Formal Mental Health Care System: Perceived Barriers to Care

Consumers' Perceptions of Negative Experiences and "Sanctuary Harm" in Psychiatric Settings

Dialogues on Mixed-Methods and Mental Health Services Research: Anticipating Challenges, Building Solutions

Strategies for the Effective Use of NVivo in a Large-Scale Study: Qualitative Analysis and the Repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: