The impact of music therapy versus music medicine on psychological outcomes and pain in cancer patients: a mixed methods study

Bradt, Joke; Potvin, Noah; Kesslick, Amy; Shim, Minjung; Radl, Donna; Schriver, Emily; Gracely, Edward J.; Komarnicky-Kocher, Lydia T.

doi:10.1007/s00520-014-2478-7

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“…1 Although not the focus of this study, future inquiry could also focus on the use of graphical displays. We are aware of some examples 29,36 but found relatively few new ones. Our analysis of 19 joint displays in published health-related literature demonstrates the intent of a variety of joint displays for providing insights and inferences in mixed methods studies.…”

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“…Bradt et al 29 conducted a mixed methods cross-over trial that exposed patients to both music therapy (MT) and music medicine (MM). Collecting data from patients with cancer in an academic hospital in the United States, they conducted semistructured interviews to understand patients' experiences with music intervention and hear their voices about the impact of the intervention.…”

Section: Mixed Methods Intervention Design Joint Displaymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To represent integration, Bradt et al 29 created a joint display to represent adding qualitative data into an experiment. It was a side-by-side display that integrated the experiences of patients whose quantitative data indicated greater benefit of MT vs MM or vice versa ( Figure 5).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The display helped the authors to explore "if and why certain patients benefited more from MT than MM sessions or vice versa." 29 This exemplar uniquely illustrated a cross-over trial wherein patients had both exposures, MT and MM, and distributed their comments relative to their responses to both. The authors reported the table added insights into how patient characteristics affected treatment benefits and provided several examples with implications for practice.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Next, the intervention design displays included sideby-side displays of results to embed qualitative findings with treatment outcomes illuminating issues, such as implementation practices 28 or patient experiences. 29 We found innovations in the use of joint displays. Several joint displays combined types, for example, integrating a theoretical framework into a side-by-side display.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Integrating Quantitative and Qualitative Results in Health Science Mixed Methods Research Through Joint Displays

Guetterman

Fetters

Creswell

2015

The Annals of Family Medicine

992

769

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PURPOSE Mixed methods research is becoming an important methodology to investigate complex health-related topics, yet the meaningful integration of qualitative and quantitative data remains elusive and needs further development. A promising innovation to facilitate integration is the use of visual joint displays that bring data together visually to draw out new insights. The purpose of this study was to identify exemplar joint displays by analyzing the various types of joint displays being used in published articles. METHODSWe searched for empirical articles that included joint displays in 3 journals that publish state-of-the-art mixed methods research. We analyzed each of 19 identified joint displays to extract the type of display, mixed methods design, purpose, rationale, qualitative and quantitative data sources, integration approaches, and analytic strategies. Our analysis focused on what each display communicated and its representation of mixed methods analysis. RESULTSThe most prevalent types of joint displays were statistics-by-themes and side-by-side comparisons. Innovative joint displays connected findings to theoretical frameworks or recommendations. Researchers used joint displays for convergent, explanatory sequential, exploratory sequential, and intervention designs. We identified exemplars for each of these designs by analyzing the inferences gained through using the joint display. Exemplars represented mixed methods integration, presented integrated results, and yielded new insights.CONCLUSIONS Joint displays appear to provide a structure to discuss the integrated analysis and assist both researchers and readers in understanding how mixed methods provides new insights. We encourage researchers to use joint displays to integrate and represent mixed methods analysis and discuss their value. INTRODUCTIONM ixed methods research increasingly is being used as a methodology in the health sciences 1,2 to gain a more complete understanding of issues and hear the voices of participants. Researchers have used the mixed methods approach to examine nuanced topics, such as electronic personal health records, 3 knowledge resources, 4 patientphysician communication, 5 and insight about intervention feasibility and implementation practices. 6 Mixed methods research is the collection and analysis of both qualitative and quantitative data and its integration, drawing on the strengths of both approaches. 7,8 We examined joint displays as a way to represent and facilitate integration of qualitative and quantitative data in mixed methods studies. IntegrationIncreasingly, methodologists have emphasized the integration of qualitative and quantitative data as the centerpiece of mixed methods.9 Integration is an intentional process by which the researcher brings quantitative and qualitative approaches together in a study. 7 Quantitative and qualitative data then become interdependent in addressing common research 10 Meaningful integration allows researchers to realize the true benefits of mixed methods to "produce...

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Mixed Methods Intervention Design Joint Displaymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Mixed Methods Intervention Design Joint Displaymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Mixed Methods Intervention Design Joint Displaymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Included Studies and Displaysmentioning

confidence: 99%

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