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Qualitative research & evaluation methods
Michael Quinn Patton
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In this paper, conceptual issues and themes on qualitative research and evaluaton methods including: qualitative data, triangulated inquiry, qualitative inquiry, constructivism, constructionism, complexity (chaos) theory, qualitative designs and data collection, fieldwork strategies, interviewing, tape-recording, ethical issues, analysis, interpretation and reporting, observations vs. perceived impacts and utilisation-focused evaluation reporting.Abstract:
This book explains clearly conceptual issues and themes on qualitative research and evaluaton methods including: qualitative data, triangulated inquiry, qualitative inquiry, constructivism, constructionism, Complexity (chaos) theory, qualitative designs and data collection, fieldwork strategies, interviewing, tape-recording, ethical issues, analysis, interpretation and reporting, observations vs. perceived impacts and utilisation-focused evaluation reporting.read more
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Day tour itineraries: Searching for the balance between commercial needs and experiential desires
Cora Un In Wong,Bob McKercher +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the impact of the business model on the selection of day tour itineraries in the Macau Special Administrative Region of China and found that experiential values are traded off almost entirely in the itineraries of commission-based tours, while a better balance between experience and operational considerations drives itinerary choices for non-commission based tours.
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A systematic review of the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of peer-based interventions to maintain and improve offender health in prison settings
Jane South,Anne-Marie Bagnall,Claire Hulme,James Woodall,Roberta Longo,Rachael Dixey,Karina Kinsella,Gary Raine,Karen Vinall-Collier,Judy Wright +9 more
TL;DR: Evidence suggested that peer education interventions are effective at reducing risky behaviours and that peer support services provide an acceptable source of help within the prison environment and have a positive effect on recipients.
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Translational informatics: enabling high-throughput research paradigms
TL;DR: The current state and evolution of biomedical informatics as it pertains to the conduct of high-throughput clinical and translational research is reported upon and a conceptual and practical framework for the design and execution of informatics-enabled studies is presented.
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Illness explanations among patients with medically unexplained symptoms: different idioms for different contexts.
TL;DR: The aim of this study is to analyse the social construction of illness explanations among patients with MUS, and to illustrate the use of explanatory idioms as being dependent on space, time and setting, legitimizing each idiom.
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Forecasting the ward climate: a study from a dementia care unit.
TL;DR: Findings from a study aiming to explore the psychosocial climate and its influence on the well-being of people with dementia in a psycho-geriatric hospital unit suggest staff were catalysts for the psycho-social climate and when being present and engaged they could create a climate interpreted as at-homeness which supported patient well- being.