Doing Template Analysis: Evaluating an End-of-Life Care Service

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Citizenship and Applied Human Sciences at the University of Huddersfield. He has a long standing interest in the use of qualitative methods in "real world" research, especially in community health and social care settings. His research interests include professional identities and interprofessional relations in community palliative care, psychological aspects of contact with nature and ethics in qualitative research.Nigel is well-known for his work on Template Analysis and, more recently, the development of a visual interview technique known as "Pictor".(ii) Relevant disciplines: AbstractIn this chapter, we introduce the reader to Template Analysis, a method of thematically organising and analysing qualitative data in social science research.We outline the basic principles of the method and describe the main procedural steps involved in undertaking Template Analysis. We then use an example from our own research (the qualitative evaluation of an end of life care service in the United Kingdom) to demonstrate how Template Analysis can be successfully applied in a real world research setting. Learning outcomesThe learning outcomes of this chapter are as follows:1. To understand the principles of the qualitative data analysis method, Template Analysis; 2. To be aware of the steps involved in using Template Analysis in real world research; 3. To understand the broad range of research setting in which Template Analysis might be usefully applied. 4Qualitative research in the social sciences often produces extensive raw data. To be able to move from this raw data to some understanding of experience, researchers need to select from a wide array of qualitative data analysis methods. The purpose of this chapter is to introduce readers to one particular approach to qualitative data analysis known as Template Analysis. We will introduce the method and outline its basic principles, then illustrate the main procedural steps involved in undertaking Template Analysis. We will then use an example from our own work to demonstrate how Template Analysis can be applied in a research context. What is Template Analysis?Template Analysis is a method of thematically organising and analysing qualitative data which has been applied in a broad range of research areas in the social sciences (King, 2012). Central to Template Analysis is the development of a coding template, which summarises themes identified by the researcher(s) as important in a data set, and organises them in a meaningful and useful manner. Themes are recurrent features of participants" accounts characterising particular perceptions and/ or experiences that the researcher sees as relevant to their research question.Coding is the process of identifying themes in accounts and attaching labels (codes) to index them. Once a researcher using Template Analysis has identified the themes or codes in their textual data, these are then organised by the researcher into their template, which is organised so that it usefully and meaningfully represents the relationship between different...

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