Using the Colaizzi Method to Explore Intimate Partner Violence Caseworkers’ Subjective Experience: Pathways to Intimate Partner Violence Work and What Keeps Them Going

Abstract

Successful intimate partner violence (IPV) safety, advocacy, and intervention programs require recruitment and retention of persons of experience and commitment. To examine lived experiences of IPV advocates working in transitional shelter programs for women exiting IPV relationships, focus group discussions of 15 transitional housing and IPV shelter caseworkers were analyzed using the Colaizzi seven-step phenomenological method of analysis. Several themes emerged through the analysis, including historical, intergenerational pathways to IPV work and unity in sisterhood with IPV clients. The seven-step Colaizzi method is presented with examples of how each Colaizzi step yields an understanding of what motivates and sustains IPV caseworkers.

Constructing a Competency Evaluation Index System for Nursing Positions in a Chronic Kidney Disease Management Centre

“…Step 1 of Colaizzi’s method is to read and reread the transcribed interviews to obtain a full sense of the words that the participant has shared during the focus group; step 2 is to extract key statements that pertain to the phenomena; step 3 is to formulate meaning from the key statements; step 4 is to aggregate the formulated meanings into theme clusters and themes; step 5 is the development of an exhaustive description of the phenomena, fully encompassing the themes created in step 4; step 6 is to remove any redundant or misused information to distil the essence of the phenomena; step 7 is to validate the exhaustive description and fundamental structure of the phenomena. 23 This process led to the preliminary formation of an item pool for an evaluation index of nursing competencies in the CKDMC, consisting of 4 primary indicators, 12 secondary indicators, and 45 tertiary indicators.…”