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Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis: Theory, Method and Research
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Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) is an increasingly popular approach to qualitative inquiry as discussed by the authors and a handy text covers its theoretical foundations and provides a detailed guide to conducting IPA research.Abstract:
Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) is an increasingly popular approach to qualitative inquiry. This handy text covers its theoretical foundations and provides a detailed guide to conducting IPA research.
Extended worked examples from the authors' own studies in health, sexuality, psychological distress and identity illustrate the breadth and depth of IPA research.
Each of the chapters also offers a guide to other good exemplars of IPA research in the designated area. The final section of the book considers how IPA connects with other contemporary qualitative approaches like discourse and narrative analysis and how it addresses issues to do with validity. The book is written in an accessible style and will be extremely useful to students and researchers in psychology and related disciplines in the health and social sciences.read more
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Leaving a spinal unit and returning to the wider community: an interpretative phenomenological analysis.
TL;DR: The results indicated that the spinal unit may not adequately equip the recovering person with SCI for life in the real world, and participants were focussed on the two year period following SCI as one in which they remained hopeful of further recovery of function and or cure, this may delay participation in other aspects of community reintegration.
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Is pregnancy a teachable moment for diet and physical activity behaviour change? An interpretative phenomenological analysis of the experiences of women during their first pregnancy.
TL;DR: Pregnancy may provide a 'teachable moment' for positive health behaviour change, as a time when women are both motivated towards health and in regular contact with health care professionals, but there is limited evidence for the utility of the TM model in predicting or promoting behaviour change.
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Painting pain: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of representations of living with chronic pain
TL;DR: Patients' pictorial representations of their chronic pain, alongside their accounts of those images, are examined in order to help understanding of their lived experience of the condition.
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Influence of religious factors on attitudes towards suicidal behaviour in Ghana.
Joseph Osafo,Joseph Osafo,Birthe Loa Knizek,Charity S. Akotia,Heidi Hjelmeland,Heidi Hjelmeland +5 more
TL;DR: Results showed that the participants are committed to core and normative religious beliefs and practices they perceived as life preserving, which influenced their view of suicidal behaviour as unacceptable and facilitated their willingness to help people during suicidal crisis.
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Institutional ethnography and data analysis: making sense of data dialogues
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare listening guides and interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) to evaluate whether these forms of data analysis can be used to supplement institutional ethnography (IE).
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Using thematic analysis in psychology
Virginia Braun,Victoria Clarke +1 more
TL;DR: Thematic analysis is a poorly demarcated, rarely acknowledged, yet widely used qualitative analytic method within psychology as mentioned in this paper, and it offers an accessible and theoretically flexible approach to analysing qualitative data.
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Constructing grounded theory : A practical guide through qualitative analysis
TL;DR: Charmaz as mentioned in this paper presented a practical guide through qualitative analysis to construct grounded theory, using qualitative analysis, and showed that qualitative analysis can be used to understand grounded theory in a practical way.
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Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
Jonathan A. Smith,Mike Osborn +1 more
TL;DR: The aim of interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) is to explore in detail how participants are making sense of their personal and social world, and the main currency for an IPA study is the meanings particular experiences, events, states hold for participants as discussed by the authors.
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Dilemmas in qualitative health research
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the problem posed by the novelty and diversity of qualitative approaches within health psychology and consider the question of what criteria are appropriate for assessing the validity of a qualitative analysis.