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Qualitative Research for Allied Health Professionals: Challenging Choices Edited by Linda Finlay and Claire Ballinger Qualitative Research for Allied Health Professionals: Challenging Choices Qualitative Research for Allied Health Professionals: Challenging Choices Edited by Linda Finlay and Claire Ballinger Copyright © 2006 Whurr Publishers Limited (a subsidiary of John Wiley & Sons Ltd) The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 8SQ, England Telephone (+44) 1243 779777 Email (for orders and customer service enquiries): cs-books@wiley.co.uk Visit our Home Page on www.wiley.com All Rights Reserved. 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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Qualitative research for allied health professionals : challenging choices / edited by Linda Finlay and Claire Ballinger. p.;cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-470-01963-4 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0-470-01963-8 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Qualitative research. 2. Medicine – Research – Methodology. 3. Medical care – Research – Methodology. 4. Allied health personnel. [DNLM: 1. Allied Health Occupations. 2. Qualitative Research. W 21.5 Q15 2006] I. Finlay, Linda, 1957– II. Ballinger, Claire. R853.Q34Q83 2006 610′.72 – dc22 2005025318 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN-13 978-0-470-01963-4 ISBN-10 0-470-01963-8 Printed and bound in Great Britain by TJ International Ltd, Padstow, Cornwall This book is printed on acid-free paper responsibly manufactured from sustainable forestry in which at least two trees are planted for each one used for paper production. For Abbi, Amy and Anthony Contents Contributors ix Prologue xi PART IPlanning the research 1 Chapter 1 ‘Going exploring’: The nature of qualitative research 3 Linda Finlay Chapter 2 Mapping methodology 9 Linda Finlay Chapter 3 Strategic choices in research planning 30 Barbara Steward Chapter 4 Ethical and governance issues in qualitative research 46 Claire Ballinger and Rose Wiles PART II Doing the research 61 Chapter 5 A grounded theory of the wellbeing of older people 63 Mandy Stanley Chapter 6 An ethnography of physiotherapy culture 79 Barbara Richardson Chapter 7 Investigating invisible groups using mixed methodologies 93 Barbara Steward viii CONTENTS Chapter 8 Communication practices in physiotherapy: A conversation analytic study 108 Ruth H. Parry Chapter 9 Using biographical research with disabled young people 125 Michael Curtin Chapter 10 Low back pain: Exploring the meaning of exercise management through interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) 139 Sarah G. Dean, Jonathan A. Smith and Sheila Payne Chapter 11 Using a biographic-narrative-interpretive method: Exploring motivation in mental health 156 Tanya Campbell-Breen and Fiona Poland Chapter 12 Empowering young people through participatory research? 171 Anne Killett Chapter 13 The embodied experience of multiple sclerosis: An existential-phenomenological analysis 185 Linda Finlay Chapter 14 Discourse analysis in action: The construction of risk in a community day hospital 200 Claire Ballinger and Julianne Cheek Chapter 15 A case study of unconscious processes in an organisation 218 Paula Hyde PART III Presenting the research 233 Chapter 16 Demonstrating rigour and quality? 235 Claire Ballinger Chapter 17 Disseminating the research: Towards knowledge 247 Linda Finlay and Barbara Steward Glossary 257 Index 265 [...]... complexity of our research terrain The chapters in this book aim to reveal something of the excitement and satisfactions of doing qualitative research, along with the uncerQualitative Research for Allied Health Professionals: Challenging Choices Edited by Linda Finlay and Claire Ballinger Copyright 2006 by John Wiley & Sons Ltd ISBN 0-470-01963-8 4 QUALITATIVE RESEARCH FOR ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONALS... possible options Qualitative researchers need to be able to understand such concepts as epistemology, interpretivism, relativism and reflexivity These are concepts that we regularly confront when reading qualitative research papers and when discussing our work with others Grappling with these meanings transforms our research Qualitative Research for Allied Health Professionals: Challenging Choices Edited... highlight some of the challenging choices they have had to face There are many routes through – many ways of doing – qualitative research, and this very diversity means that decisions need to be carefully thought through The purpose of this book is to contribute to making well-considered choices CHALLENGING CHOICES One early critical choice that qualitative researchers face when planning research is which... or in terms of cause and effect Whatever methodology qualitative researchers choose to embrace, we embark on a journey that is endlessly fascinating: a potentially transformative exploration of relationships and meanings within our social world Whatever we know of our world, the 8 QUALITATIVE RESEARCH FOR ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONALS qualitative research journey opens fresh horizons, showing us how... Qualitative Health Research, and extensive thoughtful discussion within our professional journals Quite deliberately, the subtitle of this book, Challenging Choices, carries a double meaning It makes the point that the qualitative research endeavour is likely to be challenging to us as researchers But it also affirms that the choices that we make in designing, carrying out and reporting our research will... research as well as how your research will be evaluated by others The diversity of philosophies characterises qualitative research today – though qualitative 18 QUALITATIVE RESEARCH FOR ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONALS researchers tend to unite immediately, of course, when challenged by quantitative researchers! GETTING TO GRIPS WITH ‘EPISTEMOLOGY’ Epistemology is concerned with the theory of knowledge and... EXPLORATORY, HYPOTHESIS-GENERATING NATURE OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH Qualitative researchers start with open research questions rather than having a hypothesis to test Qualitative research aims to investigate and understand the social world rather than to predict, explain and control behaviour The focus is on the ‘how’ and ‘what’ rather than ‘why’ and ‘whether’ For instance, instead of investigating whether... look at some of the issues relating to research ethics and governance They offer suggestions for how to interpret current guidelines to suit qualitative enquiry 1 ‘Going Exploring’: The Nature of Qualitative Research LINDA FINLAY The process of engaging in qualitative research is rather like ‘going exploring’ Uncharted territory beyond the reach of conventional research (with its claims to objectivity... Search for Meaning, Boston: Beacon Seale, C (1999) The Quality of Qualitative Research, London: Sage Publications Willig, C (2001) Introducing Qualitative Research in Psychology: Adventures in Theory and Method, Buckingham: Open University Press 2 Mapping Methodology LINDA FINLAY Novice researchers planning their research projects can all too easily make the mistake of adopting a specific method (for. .. allied health professions (AHPs) within the qualitative research arena AHP researchers are now able to engage in debate on methodology and epistemology in a way that would have been impossible even ten years ago This is evidenced by the large number of therapists embarking on higher degrees, the contribution of therapy researchers to international generic research publications such as the journal Qualitative . Qualitative Research for Allied Health Professionals: Challenging Choices Edited by Linda Finlay and Claire Ballinger Qualitative Research for Allied. 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