Qualitative Research and Evaluation Methodology Workshop

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Qualitative Research and Evaluation Methodology
Workshop

• Abraham (Rami) Rudnick
  BMedSc, MD, MPsych, PhD, CPRP,
  FRCPC
• Associate Professor
  Departments of Psychiatry and Philosophy
• Chair, Division of Social and Rural Psychiatry
• Director, Extended Campus Program
• Clinical Director, North of Superior Programs
• University of Western Ontario
• Email arudnic2_at_uwo.ca

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Learning Objectives

• Enhance awareness of relevance of qualitative
  research and evaluation methodology.
• Enhance knowledge of qualitative research and
  evaluation methodology.
• Enhance skill of determining suitable qualitative
  methodology for a research or evaluation idea.

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Method

• Interactive presentation.
• Group exercise.

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Outline

• Introductions.
• Fundamentals
• Methodologies.
• Data collection.
• Data analysis.
• Generic procedures.
• Write up.
• Mixed designs
• Group exercise Determining a suitable
• qualitative methodology for a research or
  evaluation idea.
• Opportunities to Train in Qualitative Research
  Methodology

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Introductions
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Fundamentals

• Related to experience and conduct of human
  beings.
• Based on social sciences, humanities and arts.
• Declines numerical standardization and
  measurement (in most cases).
• Generalization and comparative approach (which
  are fundamental to quantitative research) are
  controversial.

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Methodologies

• Standard in health related research
  phenomenology ethnography grounded theory
  narrative case study (Creswell 2007).
• Others
  discourse analysis auto-ethnography
  photovoice art-based research PAR historical
  other (Denzin and Lincoln 2005).
• Examples
  Davidson 2003 (phenomenology)
  Somasundaram 2007 (ethnography) Roe et al 2004
  (grounded theory) Rudnick et al In progress
  (case study).

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Data Collection

• Semi-structured vs. unstructured interviews.
• Group interviews (focus groups or other).
• Direct vs. participant observations (with field
  notes).
• Documents.

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Data Analysis

• Coding, categorizing, thematic analysis (and
  sometimes theory generation and even testing).

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Generic Procedures

• Sample saturation.
• Transcribing and validating.
• Memos.
• Trustworthiness/credibility (triangulation of
  sources of information or of methods of data
  collection, peer debriefing, member checking).

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Write Up

• Verbatim examples (and sometimes verbatim theme
  titles).

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Mixed (Quantitative and Qualitative) Evaluation
and Research

• Generating hypotheses, then testing them
• qualitative ? quantitative.
• Testing hypotheses, then explaining findings
• quantitative ? qualitative.
• Other (e.g., answer qualitative questions and
  test quantitative hypotheses in parallel).

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Group exercise Determining a
Suitable Qualitative Methodology for a Research
or Evaluation Idea

• Small group discussion.
• Large group presentation.
• Q A.

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Opportunities to Train in Qualitative Research
Methodology

• International Institute for Qualitative
  Methodology
• http//www.ualberta.ca/iiqm/
• Other

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References

• Creswell JW. Qualitative Inquiry and Research
  Design Choosing Among Five Approaches. Thousand
  Oaks, California Sage, 2007.
• Davidson L. Living Outside Mental Illness
  Qualitative Studies of Recovery in Schizophrenia.
  New York New York University Press, 2003.
• Denzin NK, Lincoln Y (Editors). The SAGE Handbook
  of Qualitative Research. Thousand Oaks,
  California Sage, 2005.
• Roe D, Chopra M, Rudnick A. Persons with
  psychosis as active agents interacting with their
  disorder. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal
  2004, 28122-128.
• Somasundaram D. Collective trauma in northern Sri
  Lanka a qualitative psychosocial-ecological
  study. International Journal of Mental Health
  Systems 2007, 15.