Making Qualitative Research Reports Less Boring

Caulley, Darrel N

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“…Keeping in mind that existing health care inequities affecting minorities is a complex phenomenon [46], we portrayed the findings including both the participants’ and the researchers’ voices [47] using a narrative writing approach, and more specifically, a nonfiction first-person, figurative, vignette [48]. The purpose of the vignette was to develop a compelling, insightful, and meaningful account [49, 50] illustrating data as voiced by participants and perceived by researchers [51].…”

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Challenges newly-arrived migrant women in Montreal face when needing maternity care: Health care professionals’ perspectives

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BackgroundPeople who leave their country of origin, or the country of habitual residence, to establish themselves permanently in another country are usually referred to as migrants. Over half of all births in Montreal, Canada are to migrant women. To understand healthcare professionals’ attitudes towards migrants that could influence their delivery of care, our objective was to explore their perspectives of challenges newly-arrived migrant women from non-Western countries face when needing maternity care.MethodIn this qualitative multiple case study, we conducted face-to-face interviews with 63 health care professionals from four teaching hospitals in Montreal, known for providing maternity care to a high volume of migrant women. Interviews were transcribed and thematically analysed.ResultsPhysicians, nurses, social workers, and therapists participated; 90% were female; and 17% were themselves migrants from non-Western countries. According to participants, newly-arrived migrant women face challenges at two levels: (a) direct care (e.g., understanding Canadian health care professionals’ expectations, communicating effectively with health care professionals), and (b) organizational (e.g., access to appropriate health care). Challenges women face are strongly influenced by the migrant woman’s background as well as social position (e.g., general education, health literacy, socio-cultural integration) and by how health care professionals balance women’s needs with perceived requirement to adhere to standard procedures and regulations.ConclusionsHealth care professionals across institutions agreed that maternity care-related challenges faced by newly-arrived migrant women often are complex in that they are simultaneously driven by conflicting values: those based on migrant women’s sociocultural backgrounds versus those related to the implementation of Canadian guidelines for maternity care in which consideration of migrant women’s particular needs are not priority.

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“…According to Cheney (2001), the purpose of creative nonfiction is not just to convey fact; it also ensures the reader or listener is directly touched by various techniques that make it possible for the context and the meaning of actions to emerge evocatively. Caulley (2008) adds that this form of writing allows the results of qualitative studies to become meaningful.…”

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“…To make descriptions more meaningful, verbs are generally in the present tense (Caulley, 2008). Rather than listing the facts, actions are described as a sequence of events which appeals to the readers' or listeners' senses; in other words, these descriptions lead audiences to imagine they too see, hear, feel, taste, or touch what is being described (Caulley, 2008;Kramer, 2007). The description must reflect the emotional experience of the story's "characters."…”

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Once upon a time: Storytelling as a knowledge translation strategy for qualitative researchers

Bourbonnais

Michaud

2018

Nursing Inquiry

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Qualitative research should strive for knowledge translation toward the goal of closing the gap between knowledge and practice. However, it is often a challenge in nursing to identify knowledge translation strategies able to illustrate the usefulness of qualitative results in any given context. This article defines storytelling and uses pragmatism to examine storytelling as a strategy to promote the knowledge translation of qualitative results. Pragmatism posits that usefulness is defined by the people affected by the problem and that usefulness is promoted by modalities, like storytelling, that increase sensitivity to an experience. Indeed, stories have the power to give meaning to human behaviors and to trigger emotions, and in doing so bring many advantages. For example, by contextualizing research results and appealing to both the reason and the emotions of audiences, storytelling can help us grasp the usefulness of these research results. Various strategies exist to create stories that will produce an emotional experience capable of influencing readers' or listeners' actions. To illustrate the potential of storytelling as a knowledge translation strategy in health care, we will use our story of discovering this strategy during a qualitative study in a nursing home as an example.

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“…In this paper, I experiment with the use of creative analytic practice (see Caulley, 2008; Richardson, 200; Vickers, 2008) by writing scenes based on details of fieldwork. My aim in creating this narrative is to transport the reader into the research experience; to visualise the community, to imagine playing at the Duangkae Centre, and to share in the learning that took place from this research collaboration.…”

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Through the lens of participatory photography: engaging Thai children in research about their community play centre

Truong

Mahon

2012

International Journal of Play

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This paper explores a children's participatory photography research project that was conducted within a larger action research collaboration with a Thai nongovernmental organisation called the Foundation for Child Development. The project examined how Thai children experience play and sense of place at a children's centre located in an urban low-income congested community. The process provided insight into how the centre may become a meaningful place in children's lives through the ability to transform the space through their play, experience diverse playthings, interact with playmates, and feel a sense of safety. Guided by a cultural-ecological framework, the study contextualises children's play and indicates how globalisation and urbanisation are increasingly changing the landscape of childhood in Thailand. The findings suggest that future research which examines the impact of these patterns on children's play and play space can help inform policy and practice related to education, child development, and play space design. PreludeIn this paper, I experiment with the use of creative analytic practice (see Caulley, 2008; Richardson, 200; Vickers, 2008) by writing scenes based on details of fieldwork. My aim in creating this narrative is to transport the reader into the research experience; to visualise the community, to imagine playing at the Duangkae Centre, and to share in the learning that took place from this research collaboration.Nok rolled over, trying to block out the sounds coming in through the thin walls of the small one-room home she shared with her mother. The passage outside of their room was always busy in the early morning and Nok's wake-up call was a street concerto of yelling and laughter as the neighbours started their day, water splashing from the communal tap in the alley behind their room, and the occasional growl of a scooter as someone rushed off to work. This was all kept in time by the rhythmic beat of a knife chopping against a wooden cutting board. Nok didn't need to look beside her to know that her mother wasn't there. Every morning at sunrise her mother walked to the market to buy fruit that she would sell at the nearby railway station. Nok pulled herself up and slipped out the door. As she reached to pull her school uniform from the clothesline, she said good morning to her mother who was sitting on a stool beside the door slicing a fresh papaya. Without missing a beat, her mother pointed to a bowl of noodles and told her to eat quickly or else she would be late for school. Then, with a

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Making Qualitative Research Reports Less Boring

Cited by 134 publications

References 3 publications

Challenges newly-arrived migrant women in Montreal face when needing maternity care: Health care professionals’ perspectives

Challenges newly-arrived migrant women in Montreal face when needing maternity care: Health care professionals’ perspectives

Once upon a time: Storytelling as a knowledge translation strategy for qualitative researchers

Through the lens of participatory photography: engaging Thai children in research about their community play centre

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