Mathematical Dimensions of Qualitative Research

Miller, Dan E.

doi:10.1525/si.2000.23.4.399

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“…After the study was described, participants provided written informed consent. Sampling continued until preliminary data review suggested thematic saturation had been reached (38). No participant was lost to the study after consenting.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

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Experiencing Community: Perspectives of Individuals Diagnosed as Having Serious Mental Illness

Bromley¹,

Gabrielian²,

Brekke³

et al. 2013

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Objective Community integration is recognized as a crucial component of recovery from serious mental illness. Although the construct of community integration can be measured with structured instruments, little is known about the subjective and experiential meaning of community and community involvement for persons with serious mental illness. Methods In 2010, 30 individuals with serious mental illness treated in two public mental health clinics completed semistructured interviews that elicited the places and people that they associate with the experience of community and the larger meaning of community in their lives. Results Participants described four experiences as integral to their concepts of community: receiving help, minimizing risk, avoiding stigma, and giving back. Participants looked for communities that provide reliable support, and they described the need to manage community contact in order to protect themselves and others from their symptoms and from discrimination. Most participants experienced communities centered on mental health treatment or mentally ill peers as providing opportunities for positive engagement. Conclusions The experience of having a serious mental illness shapes preferences for and perceptions of community in pervasive ways. Participants describe community involvement not as a means to move away from illness experiences and identities but as a process that is substantially influenced by them. Mental health communities may help individuals with serious mental illness to both manage their illness and recognize and enjoy a sense of community. The findings indicate the need for further research on the relationship between community integration and outcome in serious mental illness.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Experiencing Community: Perspectives of Individuals Diagnosed as Having Serious Mental Illness

Bromley¹,

Gabrielian²,

Brekke³

et al. 2013

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“…Like Maines, I believe that symbolic interactionism and its methodological position are a generic theoretical and methodological framework for all sociological areas of inquiry and types of research questions. An anti‐quantitative stance is simply absurd for any general sociological framework—just as absurd as an anti‐qualitative stance (for a parallel discussion, see Miller 2000; for a contrasting statement, see Esposito and Murphy 1999). A scientific sociology simply must sometimes address quantitative questions concerning the distributions, aggregate patterns, probabilities, and even multivariate statistical associations of social phenomena.…”

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“…I would like to expand on Maines's view that, despite stereotypes, interactionism has no particular method. Maines, like Blumer and many other interactionists (e.g., Couch 1995; Denzin 1989; Miller 2000), recognizes the necessity of studying both outcomes and processes for sociology and advocates a principled catholicity of methods. That is, the data and research methods must be appropriate to the research problem at hand.…”

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Demarginalizing Symbolic Interactionism: A Comment on “Interactionism's Place”

Ulmer

2003

Symbolic Interaction

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“…Adequate behavioral sampling (also called time sampling) is another critical aspect of observational method validation, as it indicates that researchers have observed for a sufficient duration to capture the true variation in the sample. 69,70 Inter-rater reliability, which ascertains that multiple coders rate behavior similarly, must also be established to verify the consistency of the protocol. Test-retest reliability (i.e., day-to-day stability of coded behaviors across observation sessions) is important to establish because it can suggest that the data collection has captured consistent attributes, rather than situation dependent or state related individual differences.…”

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Selegiline transdermal system in major depressive disorder

Patkar

Portl²,

Pae³

2012

Neuropsychiatry

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Few methods are available to explore the impact of neurocognition in schizophrenia on behaviors performed in usual contexts. The authors developed a video ethnography approach to examine the relationship between naturalistic behaviors and research constructs of neurocognition. Video ethnographers accompanied subjects through usual routines gathering continuous video data. Researchers developed codes to measure four behavioral domains observed on video. This paper describes the psychometric characteristics to be considered in the development of observational approaches. It also highlights differences between behaviors performed in usual environments and neuropsychological constructs. The authors demonstrate that everyday behaviors that have been shown to correspond to neurocognitive skills in a pilot feasibility study can be identified and rated. They further suggest that observational methods could provide novel strategies for linking research findings and clinical concerns.

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Mathematical Dimensions of Qualitative Research

Cited by 11 publications

References 7 publications

Experiencing Community: Perspectives of Individuals Diagnosed as Having Serious Mental Illness

Experiencing Community: Perspectives of Individuals Diagnosed as Having Serious Mental Illness

Demarginalizing Symbolic Interactionism: A Comment on “Interactionism's Place”

Selegiline transdermal system in major depressive disorder

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