Qualitative Research for Allied Health Professionals: Challenging Choices

285 Pages·2006·1.34 MB·English

by  Linda Finlay

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
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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
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This book is printed on acid-free paper responsibly manufactured from sustainable forestry in
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For Abbi,Amy and Anthony

Contents
Contributors ix
Prologue xi
PART I Planning 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