Emotion and Sensitive Research

Dickson‐Swift, Virginia

doi:10.1007/978-981-10-2779-6_141-1

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“…In this final section, we offer a reflexive account on the implications for conducting suicide research in light of our research process, findings, and relevant literature. As Dickson-Swift (2019: 3) explains, “undertaking qualitative research is often an emotional journey, not only for the participants but for others that may be involved along the way.” Indeed, our research journey was marked by tensions when translating our findings as we were caught up in the landscape of bounded suicide talk. First, we discuss how the data collection process unfolded in existing representations of suicide prevention work in generating pathways for conversations, while simultaneously binding suicide talk.…”

Section: Implications For Qualitative Suicide Researchmentioning

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The bounds of suicide talk: Implications for qualitative suicide research

Ranahan

Keefe

2021

Health (London)

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Following the implementation of a provincial suicide prevention gatekeeper training initiative in western Canada between 2015 and 2018, we conducted a focused ethnography designed to capture the post-initiative context within one small community. Analyses of our field observations and interviews with community members suggest suicide prevention work is represented in multiple informal or coordinated actions to generate innovative pathways to provoke open conversations about suicide. Simultaneously, suicide talk is constrained and managed to limit vulnerability and exposure and adhere to community privacy norms. Further, parameters around suicide talk may be employed in efforts to construct the community and mental health care in livable ways. As the research process paralleled existing representations of suicide prevention work in the community, this paper explores our entanglement in the bounds of suicide talk during phases of recruitment, data collection and knowledge translation activities.

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Section: Implications For Qualitative Suicide Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

The bounds of suicide talk: Implications for qualitative suicide research

Ranahan

Keefe

2021

Health (London)

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Section: Emotional Labormentioning

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“…Qualitative research in public health, such as hospital ethnography, can be a highly emotional experience that elicits a wide array of feelings in the researcher, from anger and frustration to sadness, anxiety, guilt, and occasionally relief (Dickson-Swift, 2017; Lalor et al, 2006). This type of research can also lead the researcher to reflect on his or her own life experiences and reliving some traumatic experiences (Dickson-Swift, 2017; Dickson-Swift et al, 2009). Qualitative research on sensitive topics, such as pediatric illness, in which there are frequent face-to-face encounters with people in disheartening situations is associated to feelings of emotional exhaustion, a key component of “burnout” (Dickson-Swift et al, 2009).…”

Section: Emotional Labormentioning

confidence: 99%

“…There is a growing body of literature examining researchers' emotional experiences and emotional safety while conducting research on sensitive topics (c.f. Dickson-Swift, 2017;Lalor et al, 2006;Tolich et al, 2020); however, studies on the emotional labor performed by hospital ethnographers is very limited. While hospital ethnography is a well-established methodology and a field of study in itself (cf.…”

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Witnessing the Ward: On the Emotional Labor of Doing Hospital Ethnography

Capurro

2021

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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This paper examines the emotional labor performed by researchers when undertaking ethnographic research in hospitals. Drawing on emotion work theory to situate emotions at the center of qualitative and interdisciplinary research, I provide a methodological reflection based on a 20-week long ethnography at a Canadian pediatric hospital I conducted in the context of a research project examining risk communication of antimicrobial resistance. I argue that the emotional labor in which hospital ethnographers engage starts long before the fieldwork and carries on throughout the project and into the data analysis and writing of results. I divide these instances of emotional labor into four categories: gaining and maintaining access to the field site, resolving ethical concerns, managing relations with participants, and witnessing human suffering. This paper addresses a gap in the literature regarding the various barriers that hospital ethnographers encounter as I reflect upon the challenges I faced and the emotional labor I intuitively engaged in and provide advice for researchers on how to navigate these barriers.

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