The methodological benefits of social media: “studying up” in Brazil in the Facebook age

Straubhaar, Rolf

doi:10.1080/09518398.2015.1074750

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“…While we recruited to achieve geographic representation from across the provinces, we did not purposively sample to ensure representation of sex, gender, age, and ethnicity. The lack of purposive sampling was not because we did not see the value in including diversity, but that we cast our net wide using social media (seen as an appropriate tool when recruiting hard-to-reach populations) 42 , 43 and interviewed everyone who expressed interest. Third, though the current study was conducted during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, we did not have an idea whether the units were at the peak or the nadir at the actual time of the interview.…”

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Impact of restricted visitation policies during COVID-19 on critically ill adults, their families, critical care clinicians, and decision-makers: a qualitative interview study

Fiest

Krewulak²,

Jaworska³

et al. 2022

Can J Anesth/J Can Anesth

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Purpose During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, restricted visitation policies were enacted at acute care facilities to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and conserve personal protective equipment. In this study, we aimed to describe the impact of restricted visitation policies on critically ill patients, families, critical care clinicians, and decision-makers; highlight the challenges faced in translating these policies into practice; and delineate strategies to mitigate their effects. Method A qualitative description design was used. We conducted semistructured interviews with critically ill adult patients and their family members, critical care clinicians, and decision-makers (i.e., policy makers or enforcers) affected by restricted visitation policies. We transcribed semistructured interviews verbatim and analyzed the transcripts using inductive thematic analysis. Results Three patients, eight family members, 30 clinicians (13 physicians, 17 nurses from 23 Canadian intensive care units [ICUs]), and three decision-makers participated in interviews. Thematic analysis was used to identify five themes: 1) acceptance of restricted visitation (e.g., accepting with concerns); 2) impact of restricted visitation (e.g., ethical challenges, moral distress, patients dying alone, intensified workload); 3) trust in the healthcare system during the pandemic (e.g., mistrust of clinical team); 4) modes of communication (e.g., communication using virtual platforms); and 5) impact of policy implementation on clinical practice (e.g., frequent changes and inconsistent implementation). Conclusions Restricted visitation policies across ICUs during the COVID-19 pandemic negatively affected critically ill patients and their families, critical care clinicians, and decision-makers. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s12630-022-02301-5.

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Impact of restricted visitation policies during COVID-19 on critically ill adults, their families, critical care clinicians, and decision-makers: a qualitative interview study

Fiest

Krewulak²,

Jaworska³

et al. 2022

Can J Anesth/J Can Anesth

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“…due to my own social ties through the TFA alumni network, as a former TFA participant myself. After reaching out to and interviewing those participants, I then expanded my population through their social networks, both in person and online, as outlined methodologically in Straubhaar (2015).…”

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Teaching for America Across Two Hemispheres: Comparing the Ideological Appeal of the Teach for All Teacher Education Model in the United States and Brazil

Straubhaar

2019

Journal of Teacher Education

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The last several decades have seen significant growth among private options in alternative teacher education and certification. In this article, I draw on two parallel ethnographic studies of the experiences of participants in variants of one particular alternative teacher education model, developed by Teach For America in the United States and spread internationally by Teach For All. Through analysis of interviews with recruits from Teach For America and its Brazilian sister organization Ensina!, I explore the thinking processes that leads young people to join these organizations, as well as how that thinking changes after 2 years of teaching in the classroom. I find that while participants in these studies joined because they admired the Teach For All teacher education model, many left their 2-year commitment questioning the underlying theories of change driving it.

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“…We also aimed to recruit 12 patients and family members through social media (e.g., Twitter) and snowball sampling through leaders of professional societies or other patients and families who participated in an interview. Non-traditional routes of recruitment are suggested when attempting to recruit a difficult to reach audience [25,26]. Specifically, we utilized unpaid outreach with 19 patient organization (any organization focused on patients and caregivers) groups on Twitter who posted or retweeted our recruitment messages to their targeted audiences [Additional file 4].…”

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Patient and family involvement in Choosing Wisely initiatives: a mixed methods study

Grood

Sypes

Niven

et al. 2022

BMC Health Serv Res

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Background Patients are important stakeholders in reducing low-value care, yet mechanisms for optimizing their involvement in low-value care remain unclear. To explore the role of patients in the development and implementation of Choosing Wisely recommendations to reduce low-value care and to assess the likelihood that existing patient resources will change patient health behaviour. Methods Three phased mixed-methods study: 1) content analysis of all publicly available Choosing Wisely clinician lists and patient resources from the United States of America and Canada. Quantitative data was summarized with frequencies and free text comments were analyzed with qualitative thematic content analysis; 2) semi-structured telephone interviews with a purposive sample of representatives of professional societies who created Choosing Wisely clinician lists and members of the public (including patients and family members). Interviews were transcribed verbatim, and two researchers conducted qualitative template analysis; 3) evaluation of Choosing Wisely patient resources. Two public partners were identified through the Calgary Critical Care Research Network and independently answered two free text questions “would this change your health behaviour” and “would you discuss this material with a healthcare provider”. Free text data was analyzed by two researchers using thematic content analysis. Results From the content analysis of 136 Choosing Wisely clinician lists, six reported patient involvement in their development. From 148 patient resource documents that were mapped onto a conceptual framework (Inform, Activate, Collaborate) 64% described patient engagement at the level of Inform (educating patients). From 19 interviews stakeholder perceptions of patient involvement in reducing low-value care were captured by four themes: 1) impact of perceived power dynamics on the discussion of low-value care in the clinical interaction, 2) how to communicate about low-value care, 3) perceived barriers to patient involvement in reducing low-value care, and 4) suggested strategies to engage patients and families in Choosing Wisely initiatives. In the final phase of work in response to the question “would this change your health behaviour” two patient partners agreed ‘yes’ on 27% of patient resources. Conclusions Opportunities exist to increase patient and family participation in initiatives to reduce low-value care.

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The methodological benefits of social media: “studying up” in Brazil in the Facebook age

Cited by 9 publications

References 36 publications

Impact of restricted visitation policies during COVID-19 on critically ill adults, their families, critical care clinicians, and decision-makers: a qualitative interview study

Impact of restricted visitation policies during COVID-19 on critically ill adults, their families, critical care clinicians, and decision-makers: a qualitative interview study

Teaching for America Across Two Hemispheres: Comparing the Ideological Appeal of the Teach for All Teacher Education Model in the United States and Brazil

Patient and family involvement in Choosing Wisely initiatives: a mixed methods study

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