Cross-cultural realist interviews: An integration of the realist interview and cross-cultural qualitative research methods

O’Rourke, Kerryn; Abdulghani, Nawal; Yelland, Jane; Newton, Michelle; Shafiei, Touran

doi:10.1177/1035719x211055229

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“…Different cultural positionalities and languages spoken between the Anglo-Western lead researcher [KO] and prospective Arabic speaking participants were addressed by collaborating with a bicultural researcher [ 28 ]. The design and facilitation of interview methods for Arabic speaking women are detailed further in a separate paper [ 29 ]. Participant information and consent processes for English speaking and Arabic speaking participants were provided by telephone, email or in person before interviews, in accordance with women’s preferences and literacy levels.…”

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How and when doula support increases confidence in women experiencing socioeconomic adversity: Findings from a realist evaluation of an Australian volunteer doula program

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How women are cared for while having a baby can have lasting effects on their lives. Women value relational care with continuity—when caregivers get to know them as individuals. Despite evidence of benefit and global policy support, few maternity care systems across the world routinely offer relational continuity. Women experiencing socioeconomic adversity have least access to good quality maternity care. Community-based doula support programs offer complementary care for these women and are known to, on average, have positive outcomes. Less understood is how, when, and why these programs work. A realist evaluation of an Australian volunteer doula program explored these questions. The program provides free social, emotional, and practical support by trained doulas during pregnancy, birth, and early parenting. This paper reports the testing and refinement of one program theory from the larger study. The theory, previously developed from key informant interviews and rapid realist review of literature, hypothesised that support increased a woman’s confidence via two possible pathways—by being with her and enabling her to see her own strength and value; and by praising her, and her feeling validated as a mother. This study aimed to test the theory in realist interviews with clients, focus groups with doulas, and with routinely collected pre-post data. Seven English-speaking and six Arabic-speaking clients were interviewed, and two focus groups with a total of eight doulas were conducted, in January-February 2020. Qualitative data were analysed in relation to the hypothesised program theory. Quantitative data were analysed for differential outcomes. Formal theories of Recognition and Relational reflexivity supported explanatory understanding. The refined program theory, Recognition, explains how and when a doula’s recognition of a woman, increases confidence, or not. Five context-mechanism-outcome configurations lead to five outcomes that differ by nature and longevity, including absence of felt confidence.

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How and when doula support increases confidence in women experiencing socioeconomic adversity: Findings from a realist evaluation of an Australian volunteer doula program

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“…Up to the time of writing, RE scholars have mostly reflected on the role of individual interview techniques ( Brönnimann, 2022 ; Mukumbang and van Wyk, 2020 ; O’Rourke et al, 2022 ) in theorisation, with focus groups not being mentioned or discussed methodologically as a distinct social research method ( Smeets et al, 2022 ). In the following section, four key lessons are identified to understand how the focus group dynamics influence the process of theory development in the realist approach to evaluation.…”

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Conducting focus groups in realist evaluation

Manzano

2022

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Focus groups are valuable tools for evaluators to help stakeholders to clarify programme theories. In 1987, R.K. Merton, often attributed with the birth of focus groups, wrote about how these were ‘being mercilessly misused’. In the 1940s, his team had conceived focus groups as tools for developing middle-range theory, but through their astonishing success focus groups have metamorphosed and are often an ‘unchallenged’ choice in many evaluation approaches, while their practice seems to provide a philosophically diverse picture. This article examines what knowledge focus group data generate, and how they support theory development. It starts with an overview of the history of focus groups, establishing a relationship between their emergence as a data collection method and the evaluation profession. Practical lessons for conducting groups in realist evaluation are suggested, while exploring how qualitative data can support programme and middle-range theory development using the example of realist evaluation.

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“…It determines and selects individuals' entities (Hughes, 2020;Muyatwa, 2022;Ndungu, 2022). The study em- Open Journal of Social Sciences some of the simple procedures used to collect primary data (Breeze, 2021;Ng, 2022;O'Rourke, Abdulghani, Yelland, Newton, & Shafiei, 2022).…”

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Experience of the Sexually Abused Street Children. A Case of One of the Cities in Tanzania

Ally¹,

Paul²

2022

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This study is about the experiences of the sexually abused street children in one of the cities in Tanzania. The study makes use of the data from 34 respondents. A questionnaire, in-depth interviews and focus group discussions were used to collect data. The findings show that the sexually abused street children have experienced all types of sexual encounters, with rape and sodomy being the common type of sexual abuse. The maximum number of times an individual child has been sexually abused is 9 times and a minimum is at least once, but many were sexually violated multiple times. Contracting infectious diseases and pains and swelling of the genital are the most prevalent effects. In terms of Perceptions on the sexually abused street children, while the social welfare officers and the nurses are neutral, the police are negative. While the services offered at the police gender desk are somehow satisfactory, the post violence services are not user-friendly, and the community virtually offers no support. When the sexually abused street children presented themselves where they were supposed to get some support, generally they did not receive any sort of help.

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Cross-cultural realist interviews: An integration of the realist interview and cross-cultural qualitative research methods

Cited by 14 publications

References 36 publications

How and when doula support increases confidence in women experiencing socioeconomic adversity: Findings from a realist evaluation of an Australian volunteer doula program

How and when doula support increases confidence in women experiencing socioeconomic adversity: Findings from a realist evaluation of an Australian volunteer doula program

Conducting focus groups in realist evaluation

Experience of the Sexually Abused Street Children. A Case of One of the Cities in Tanzania

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