A Rough Road Map to Reflexivity in Qualitative Research into Emotions

Fitzpatrick, P.; Olson, Rebecca E.

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“…The journal provided me with important supplementary data in terms of insights into my own processes which may have been lost without a written record. The journal informed and promoted the reflexivity which is acknowledged to be an important component of responsible qualitative research [35, 36]. In the 6 week observation period, I also reviewed my clinical notes on previous patients that I had consulted in the labour ward.…”

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Rethinking obstetric violence and the “neglect of neglect”: the silence of a labour ward milieu in a South African district hospital

Lappeman

Swartz

2019

BMC Int Health Hum Rights

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BackgroundResearch into the mistreatment of women during childbirth has increased over recent years. Overt violence is an important focus of research, but recently there has been increasing recognition that there are other ways in which women in labour may be uncared for or even hurt. As part of a larger study focussing on staff responses to stillbirths, we wanted to gain contextual information on how high risk pregnancies are handled in general in Khayelitsha Hospital, a district hospital in an impoverished urban setting in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. This health care system experiences an immense patient load, the poverty of the community it serves, and the numerous traumas affecting both patients and staff.MethodsIn order to obtain rich exploratory data, a qualitative research methodology was used. The primary data source was observations in the labour ward, interviewing labour ward staff (doctors, nurse, and cleaners). The secondary data source was the analysis of hospital documents, specifically those related to labour ward policy.ResultsFrom our numerous observations and discussions, it is clear that no one is being overtly mistreated in this hospital and patients are medically well attended to. Although we saw no physical abuse, we noted the silence in the ward. Beside medical related interactions, we also noted that there were limited interactions between the women and the health care providers.ConclusionsSilence can be a form of neglect as it leaves the women feeling uncared for and not seen. In an overburdened health care system where both staff and patients are often overwhelmed or traumatised, silence can be a way in which a system defends itself against what it knows it cannot provide.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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Rethinking obstetric violence and the “neglect of neglect”: the silence of a labour ward milieu in a South African district hospital

Lappeman

Swartz

2019

BMC Int Health Hum Rights

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“…After all, it was Riley, and not I, who was in the field, conducting interviews with the family members of "Alexander," a man diagnosed with dementia. The emotional labors of the fieldwork, as discussed by Ezzy (2010) and Fitzpatrick and Olson (2015), fell entirely to her. But even working at arm's length, reading the literature, as well as participating in data analysis and writing, left me miserable.…”

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Revisiting a Boy Named Jim

Bischoping

2018

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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Using examples from qualitative health research and from my childhood experience of reading a poem about a boy devoured by a lion (Belloc, 1907), I expand on a framework for reflexivity developed in Bischoping and Gazso (2016). This framework is unique in first synthesizing works from multidisciplinary narrative analysis research in order to arrive at common criteria for a "good" story: reportability, liveability, coherence, and fidelity. Next, each of these criteria is used to generate questions that can prompt reflexivity among qualitative researchers, regardless of whether they use narrative data or other narrative analysis strategies. These questions pertain to a broad span of issues, including appropriation, censorship, and the power to represent, using discomfort to guide insight, addressing vicarious traumatization, accommodating diverse participant populations, decolonizing ontology, and incorporating power and the social into analyses overly focused on individual meaning-making. Finally, I reflect on the affinities between narrative-in its imaginatively constructed, expressive, and open-ended qualities-and the reflexive impulse.

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“…The candor with which the nurses in our sample spoke is, of course, a product of many facets of the research design and execution, including the researchers' efforts to gain rapport and trust from the nursing leadership at the targeted hospitals. Additionally, though, we believe that the audio diary as a method also led to increased candor; substituting a faceless, nonjudgmental recorder for an interviewer forced us to give up a degree of control over the type of data collected as well as the insights that an interview experience might provide (Fitzpatrick and Olson, 2015;Hubbard et al, 2001). Indeed, some recordings in the sample were quite short and/or vague and the research design did not allow us to probe at the time of recording for clarification, elaboration, or examples as any thorough qualitative interviewer would do (Lofland et al, 2005;Miller and Crabtree, 2004).…”

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Capturing emotion with audio diaries

Cottingham

Erickson

2019

Qualitative Research

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Research on emotion is fraught with methodological limitations, as feelings can have non-discrete, ephemeral, and ineffable qualities. Audio diaries offer a method for capturing the sequential and varied experience of emotions as they emerge from everyday life. Following theory and methodological development in the sociology of emotion, we examine how audio diaries might be used to capture (a) candid emotions that emerge spontaneously and may reflect unpopular or negative social views and experiences, (b) the self as unfinished, and (c) processes of emotional reflexivity that exist alongside the diverse emotions that infuse everyday life. We explore how waveform visualization of audio recordings might be meaningfully combined with qualitative analysis of transcribed data to illustrate emotional contours in situ. We draw on audio diaries collected from 48 nurses from two US hospital systems to explore the possibilities and limitations of using audio diaries in emotion research.

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A Rough Road Map to Reflexivity in Qualitative Research into Emotions

Cited by 38 publications

References 21 publications

Rethinking obstetric violence and the “neglect of neglect”: the silence of a labour ward milieu in a South African district hospital

Rethinking obstetric violence and the “neglect of neglect”: the silence of a labour ward milieu in a South African district hospital

Revisiting a Boy Named Jim

Capturing emotion with audio diaries

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