Participant Observation

Balsiger, Philip; Lambelet, Alexandre

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198719571.003.0007

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“…The preliminary observation period (around two weeks) was very helpful in terms of getting her known, building rapport, and gaining broad consent from the health care providers. Informal conversations and socialisation were helpful in this regard (Balsiger & Lambelet, 2014). In addition to the preliminary observation period, MA gained permission to attend some consultations with doctors/residents as well as observing and accompanying the assigned nurses during their work with the participants.…”

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The Practice of Mutual Protection in the Care of Children with Palliative Care Needs: A Multiple Qualitative Case Study Approach from Jordan

Atout

Hemingway

Seymour

2019

Journal of Pediatric Nursing

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This study explores the experience of disclosing critical information in the care of children with palliative care needs, from the perspective of physicians, nurses, and mothers in Jordan. Design and Methods: This study employed a qualitative case study approach. It was conducted in three paediatric units in a Jordanian hospital. Each case comprised a child aged 1-12 years with a condition eligible for palliative care who received health care in one of these units, and their most involved carers (e.g. mother, physician and nurse). Two data collection methods were employed: participant observation and semi-structured interviews with three categories of participants: mothers, physicians, and nurses. Ethical approval was obtained from the hospital ethical review board. Written consent was obtained from all participants. Results: Qualitative case studies were developed around 15 children (aged 1-12 years, nine were boys and six were girls, with varying diagnoses: renal disease, neurological conditions, and congenital heart defects). A total of 197 observational hours and 60 interviews were completed (15 mothers, 12 physicians and 21 nurses). The findings demonstrate that the practice of 'mutual protection' dominated communication between children, parents and clinical staff. Parents protected their children by disclosing only partial information about their disease, and by avoiding any information they thought would cause the child distress or loss of hope. Similarly, children avoided expression to their parents of their anxieties or fears, in order to protect them. In turn, nurses attempted to ensure observance of professional boundaries with children and mother to avoid a sense of loss when a child died. 3 Conclusion: The findings of the current study indicate that while open and honest communication between parents and children is generally recommended by literature, not all mothers agree with adopting open communication with their children concerning their illnesses. Therefore, any future intervention planned for them should respect parents' autonomy and decisions in addition to their cultural backgrounds. Practical implications: The provision of ongoing education and specialised training for professionals to provide them with culturally sensitive skills in communication and provision of emotional support for children and parents is needed to improve clinical practice in healthcare settings with limited access to specialist palliative care such as Jordan.

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Section: Data Collection Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Practice of Mutual Protection in the Care of Children with Palliative Care Needs: A Multiple Qualitative Case Study Approach from Jordan

Atout

Hemingway

Seymour

2019

Journal of Pediatric Nursing

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“…(adapted from Caroll et. al, 2010) The design process started with the Understand stage, in which students and mentors participated in the creative community's activities using the ethnographic approach, an approach in which the designers involve themselves in the daily lives and activities of a certain community at a their natural setting and for a significant duration of time, in order to gain a deep understanding of the subjects of their research (Balsiger and Lambelet, 2014). The second stage was the Observe stage, in which the designers began to observe their subjects and empathized with both their passions and problems (their gains and pains) through empathy mapping (Ferreira et.…”

Section: The Proposed Participatory Learning and Design Process Modelmentioning

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Participatory Approach in the Design of Creative Community Spaces in Surabaya

Thamrin¹,

Wardani²,

Sitindjak³

2019

International Conference on Education

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Creative communities have the potential in promoting a city's cultural and touristic values. In Surabaya, the lack of properly designed spaces to accommodate their unique activities and promote them to the society have become key obstacles observed. Meanwhile, the profit-driven tendency of interior design practice today has led to the decrease in community and social awareness in design education. This research aims to implement participatory methods in the design of community spaces as studio projects to encourage students and lecturers to gain more social awareness of surrounding communities and utilize their expertise to contribute to the society. Through ethnographic methods of observation, students and lecturers participated in a creative community's activities in order to grasp their aspirations empathetically. The community was also invited to participate in the design process of defining problems, setting design goals, ideating concepts and testing design prototypes. Findings reveal that through participatory design, the designs of community spaces yielded can accommodate creative activities in a novel way and assist in promoting their potentials to the society, contributing to the vision of Surabaya as a creative city. Students and lecturers also gain a reflexive introspection of their significant role in the society as agents of social change.

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“…The researcher attended six separate MamaBake cooking sessions, organized at the participants' homes. Of these, the first two were not participant observation in the real methodological sense since the participation preceded studying the group (Balsiger & Lambelet, 2014). However, they functioned to familiarize the researcher with the field and to establish close connections with the MamaBake participants, thus enabling future observations.…”

Section: Capturing the Mamabake Groupmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, they functioned to familiarize the researcher with the field and to establish close connections with the MamaBake participants, thus enabling future observations. Furthermore, they assisted with narrowing down the focus of the observation to the symbolic dimension of the event-who attends and who does not, what are the group dynamics-as well as highlighting some of the private, otherwise invisible aspects of the MamaBake group (Balsiger & Lambelet, 2014). The session length varied from 2 to 5 hr, and they took place every 3-5 weeks, allowing the researcher the time to reflect on the observations in between.…”

Section: Capturing the Mamabake Groupmentioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond Uber and Airbnb: The Social Economy of Collaborative Consumption

Rowe

2017

Social Media + Society

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The growing collaborative consumption movement has evolved significantly in the age of Web 2.0. While much of the research has focused on its economic aspects, there are also practices that have gone largely unnoticed. This article illustrates the range of these practices by proposing a typology that accounts for the various currencies exchanged and digital technologies used to promote sharing of goods and services. This article focuses on the social aspects of the collaborative consumption movement to construct a full picture of the concept. It presents a case study of an Australian grassroots community group, MamaBake, which promotes the communal cooking and sharing of meals between mothers, and shows that even non-monetary currencies, such as the shared norms of reciprocity used by MamaBake, can be stigmatizing under certain circumstances. In doing so, it imagines alternative manifestations of the collaborative consumption movement that go beyond market orientation and instead focuses on promoting soft, non-economic values.

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Participant Observation

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The Practice of Mutual Protection in the Care of Children with Palliative Care Needs: A Multiple Qualitative Case Study Approach from Jordan

The Practice of Mutual Protection in the Care of Children with Palliative Care Needs: A Multiple Qualitative Case Study Approach from Jordan

Participatory Approach in the Design of Creative Community Spaces in Surabaya

Beyond Uber and Airbnb: The Social Economy of Collaborative Consumption

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