Qualitative Research

Smith, Brett; Sparkes, Andrew C.

doi:10.1002/9781119568124.ch49

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“…The aim of this qualitative study was to explore the perceived barriers to and facilitators of ERA in injured PVA. A qualitative design was selected as it focuses on understanding patients' experiences (Smith & Sparkes, 2020). As long as people rely on verbal communication to make sense of their experiences, produce meaning, understand their emotions, and communicate intelligibly with each other in an attempt to carry out an intended action, an interview-based qualitative study seems the most appropriate to capture and understand behaviors beyond appearance and manifest meanings (Smith & Sparkes, 2020).…”

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“…A qualitative design was selected as it focuses on understanding patients' experiences (Smith & Sparkes, 2020). As long as people rely on verbal communication to make sense of their experiences, produce meaning, understand their emotions, and communicate intelligibly with each other in an attempt to carry out an intended action, an interview-based qualitative study seems the most appropriate to capture and understand behaviors beyond appearance and manifest meanings (Smith & Sparkes, 2020). This is the first study that has examined the perceived barriers to and facilitators of ERA in such a homogenous group of professional athletes, providing a unique opportunity for clinicians to manage reduced adherence in this population.…”

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Perceived Barriers and Facilitators of Sports Rehabilitation Adherence in Injured Volleyball Athletes: A Qualitative Study From Greece

Paraskevopoulos

Gioftsos

Georgoudis

et al. 2023

Journal of Clinical Sport Psychology

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Adherence to exercise rehabilitation has been shown to be an important factor that may influence successful treatment. In professional athletes, a significant reduction in exercise adherence delays recovery. The aim of this study was to explore barriers to and facilitators of exercise rehabilitation adherence in injured volleyball athletes. Eight professional volleyball athletes were recruited, and qualitative data were collected using semistructured interviews. All athletes had completed their rehabilitation program after they had suffered a musculoskeletal injury. All data were analyzed using thematic analysis after the investigators ensured that saturation had been reached. Pain was identified as a significant barrier to exercise adherence by all athletes. The provision of social support, including mental, practical, and task related, also had a significant positive impact. The athletes’ ability to develop the necessary coping strategies and confidence on performing exercises at home was also mentioned as a factor that affected exercise adherence, although less often.

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Perceived Barriers and Facilitators of Sports Rehabilitation Adherence in Injured Volleyball Athletes: A Qualitative Study From Greece

Paraskevopoulos

Gioftsos

Georgoudis

et al. 2023

Journal of Clinical Sport Psychology

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“…A second researcher (HG) read a portion of the transcripts (which were selected for maximum variation), wrote analytic memos and engaged in discussion about the key ideas in each narrative. In phase two, a workshop was held with the whole author group acting as 'critical friends' (Smith & Sparkes, 2020) in which provisional themes were presented with associated data and interrogated by the group. This led to further refinement of the themes.…”

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Avoiding God’s Waiting Room: Lessons from the Lived Experiences of Older People who Use Digital Technology to Support Physical Activity

Haynes¹,

Gilchrist²,

Oliveira³

et al. 2023

Physical Activity and Health

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Background: Digital technologies provide new opportunities to promote, incentivise and support physical activity as an essential component of healthy ageing, but their potential is yet to be fully realised. There is mixed information about older people's capacity to use digital technologies to support physical activity, and about how it can benefit them.Methods: This study focuses on older people who report some success in using digital technology to support physical activity. We conducted narrative interviews with 17 purposively sampled survey respondents aged 70+ who had reported using smartphones, tablets/computers or wearable/portable digital devices to support their physical activity. We sought to identify transferable lessons from their experiences and to explain how these experiences were shaped by contextual factors, including the COVID-19 pandemic. Data was analysed inductively and deductively.Results: Interviewees perceived digital technology as a facilitator and motivator for physical activity, describing multiple benefits. Many disparaged their technical skills yet they used technology creatively to access and enhance physical activity, driven by philosophies of active living which underpinned their refusal to "sit in God's waiting room". Most reported navigating challenges associated with ageing in a discriminatory society, compounded by COVID-19 impacts. We identified four 'lessons': 1. Embrace technology, 2. Find your thing, 3. Be adaptive and 4. Resist 'being old'. Conclusions:Leveraging trusted social and health professional relationships to model and encourage technology-supported physical activity, and strengthening the value proposition of technology for older people with older people, may encourage their use of digital technology to support physical activity.

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“…Drawing on Merriam (2009) and Smith and Sparkes (2020) we used a qualitative descriptive process focused on participant interviews and anecdotal insights; the research project drew on one cohort of TCs and their instructors in one term of a four-term program. The cohort of students were all taking the sixteen-month program to become certified as secondary teachers.…”

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Learning with Digital Portfolios: Teacher Candidates Forming an Assessment Identity

et al. 2022

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This study focuses on how the use of digital portfolios in teacher education can support teacher candidates to shift their understanding of assessment as they form their assessment identity. The study was in the context of a changing curriculum and assessment practices promoted in British Columbia. We draw on data from a cohort of teacher candidates in the first term of a 16-month post-degree teacher education program, where they created a digital portfolio across multiple courses as part of their final assessment to be used in an exit interview with instructors and teaching professionals from the field. Narratives of teacher candidates’ experiences were collected to shed light on their changing understanding of assessment for learning practices and their emerging teacher identity as assessors promoted by the digital portfolio process. Significance of using digital portfolios to support their process of becoming teachers is focused in conclusion of the paper.

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Qualitative Research

Cited by 33 publications

References 59 publications

Perceived Barriers and Facilitators of Sports Rehabilitation Adherence in Injured Volleyball Athletes: A Qualitative Study From Greece

Perceived Barriers and Facilitators of Sports Rehabilitation Adherence in Injured Volleyball Athletes: A Qualitative Study From Greece

Avoiding God’s Waiting Room: Lessons from the Lived Experiences of Older People who Use Digital Technology to Support Physical Activity

Learning with Digital Portfolios: Teacher Candidates Forming an Assessment Identity

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