What Is Going Through Your Mind? Thinking Aloud as a Method in Cross-Cultural Psychology

Güss, C. Dominik

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01292

Cited by 83 publications

(55 citation statements)

References 43 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…The method consists of asking people to say whatever comes to mind about what they are doing, thinking, and feeling while solving a problem and analyzing the resulting verbal protocols for knowledge acquisition. This method is appropriate for studying the cognitive problems that people have in learning to use a computer system [ 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 ]. This study gathered data from older adults and family caregivers through one-to-one sessions (a researcher and a user).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Qualitative Study toward Technologies for Active and Healthy Aging: A Thematic Analysis of Perspectives among Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary End Users

Rampioni

Moșoi

Rossi

et al. 2021

IJERPH

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

It is expected that, by 2050, people aged over 60 in 65 nations will constitute 30% of the total population. Healthy aging is at the top of the world political agenda as a possible means for hindering the collapse of care systems. How can ICT/sensing technology meet older people’s needs for active and healthy aging? This qualitative study carried out in Italy and Romania in 2020 involved 30 participants: older adults, caregivers, and stakeholders. Based on a user-centered design approach, this study aimed to understand which requirements of ICT/sensing technologies could match people’s needs of active and healthy aging. Findings highlighted that ICT/sensing technology needs to focus on six major themes: (1) learnability, (2) security, (3) independence, empowerment, and coaching values, (4) social isolation, (5) impact of habit, culture, and education variables, and (6) personalized solutions. These themes are consistent with the Active Aging framework and the factors that influence perceived usefulness and potential benefits among older adults. Consequently, this study shows how well-known, but still unresolved, issues affect the field of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to promote active and healthy aging. This suggests that the reinforcement of the public health system, especially considering the pandemic effect, requires a concrete and formidable effort from an interdisciplinary research network.

show abstract

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Qualitative Study toward Technologies for Active and Healthy Aging: A Thematic Analysis of Perspectives among Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary End Users

Rampioni

Moșoi

Rossi

et al. 2021

IJERPH

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…After the presentation, the panellists were asked to provide their feedback on GEndoQ version 4 using the think-aloud method, and the verbal feedback was transcribed (Tables 13-14). This method asks the experts to verbalise their thinking during the thought process [60]. The think-aloud method is a scientifi c method that has been used in various disciplines [61].…”

Section: Content Validation Using Different Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Conception of an endodontics questionnaire in undergraduate dental education

Sacha¹,

Sonntag²,

Rüttermann³

et al. 2020

J Dent Probl Solut

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The purpose of this study was to create a valid assessing instrument using a set of questions to examine preclinical dental education in endodontics. For this reason, we constructed the "German Endodontology Questionnaire" (GEndoQ), which assesses preclinical dental education in endodontics. In recent years and decades, various curricula in preclinical and clinical endodontic education have been evaluated at both national and international levels and the results published. However, the conception of the questionnaires that have been used have never been discussed or published. The GEndoQ was constructed in fi ve phases using the Delphi technique. In the fi rst phase, the questionnaire was generated according to former questionnaires and publications through the fi rst Delphi round and divided into 10 categories. In phases two and three, different expert panellists, such as specialists in endodontology and attendants of a master's degree programme in endodontology, used the Delphi technique to confi rm the content validity of GEndoQ. The newest literature was implemented in phase four. In phase fi ve, GEndoQ was fi nally completed after multiple abbreviations were included following feedback from the expert panellists who employed the think-aloud method. Within the fi ve phases, GEndoQ Version 5 was created comprising 49 questions in nine categories. This was done using different answer options. The Likert scale with six possible options to choose from was used the most: 1= don't agree at all; 2= don't agree; 3= undecided; 4= agree; 5= fully agree, 6= don't know. Seven questions could be answered in a free text format, while fi ve questions were in a single-choice format, such as yes/no answers. The GEndoQ is a valid instrument for assessing preclinical dental education in endodontics. Future research will focus on further refi ning and validating the instrument, for example, within a pilot test. Additionally, the questionnaire should be translated into English and validated to make comparisons among international dental faculties easier.

show abstract

“…Therefore, we would propose studies that examine medical decision-making in relation to experience, professional status, values and beliefs, combining qualitative research observations of practice with 'think-aloud' experiments. 172 This should involve not just hospital specialists, but, crucially, also GPs. The outputs of such research would help to inform the development of both physician and allied health professional training programmes, and promote the efficient transit of patients through the health system.…”

Section: Recommendations For Future Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Increasing specialist intensity at weekends to improve outcomes for patients undergoing emergency hospital admission: the HiSLAC two-phase mixed-methods study

Bion

Aldridge

Beet

et al. 2021

Health Serv Deliv Res

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Background NHS England’s 7-day services policy comprised 10 standards to improve access to quality health care across all days of the week. Six standards targeted hospital specialists on the assumption that their absence caused the higher mortality associated with weekend hospital admission: the ‘weekend effect’. The High-intensity Specialist-Led Acute Care (HiSLAC) collaboration investigated this using the implementation of 7-day services as a ‘natural experiment’. Objectives The objectives were to determine whether or not increasing specialist intensity at weekends improves outcomes for patients undergoing emergency hospital admission, and to explore mechanisms and cost-effectiveness. Design This was a two-phase mixed-methods observational study. Year 1 focused on developing the methodology. Years 2–5 included longitudinal research using quantitative and qualitative methods, and health economics. Methods A Bayesian systematic literature review from 2000 to 2017 quantified the weekend effect. Specialist intensity measured over 5 years used self-reported annual point prevalence surveys of all specialists in English acute hospital trusts, expressed as the weekend-to-weekday ratio of specialist hours per 10 emergency admissions. Hospital Episode Statistics from 2007 to 2018 provided trends in weekend-to-weekday mortality ratios. Mechanisms for the weekend effect were explored qualitatively through focus groups and on-site observations by qualitative researchers, and a two-epoch case record review across 20 trusts. Case-mix differences were examined in a single trust. Health economics modelling estimated costs and outcomes associated with increased specialist provision. Results Of 141 acute trusts, 115 submitted data to the survey, and 20 contributed 4000 case records for review and participated in qualitative research (involving interviews, and observations using elements of an ethnographic approach). Emergency department attendances and admissions have increased every year, outstripping the increase in specialist numbers; numbers of beds and lengths of stay have decreased. The reduction in mortality has plateaued; the proportion of patients dying after discharge from hospital has increased. Specialist hours increased between 2012/13 and 2017/18. Weekend specialist intensity is half that of weekdays, but there is no relationship with admission mortality. Patients admitted on weekends are sicker (they have more comorbid disease and more of them require palliative care); adjustment for severity of acute illness annuls the weekend effect. In-hospital care processes are slightly more efficient at weekends; care quality (errors, adverse events, global quality) is as good at weekends as on weekdays and has improved with time. Qualitative researcher assessments of hospital weekend quality concurred with case record reviewers at trust level. General practitioner referrals at weekends are one-third of those during weekdays and have declined further with time. Limitations Observational research, variable survey response rates and subjective assessments of care quality were compensated for by using a difference-in-difference analysis over time. Conclusions Hospital care is improving. The weekend effect is associated with factors in the community that precede hospital admission. Post-discharge mortality is increasing. Policy-makers should focus their efforts on improving acute and emergency care on a ‘whole-system’ 7-day approach that integrates social, community and secondary health care. Future work Future work should evaluate the role of doctors in hospital and community emergency care and investigate pathways to emergency admission and quality of care following hospital discharge. Funding This project was funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Services and Delivery Research programme and will be published in full in Health Services and Delivery Research; Vol. 9, No. 13. See the NIHR Journals Library website for further project information.

show abstract

What Is Going Through Your Mind? Thinking Aloud as a Method in Cross-Cultural Psychology

Cited by 83 publications

References 43 publications

A Qualitative Study toward Technologies for Active and Healthy Aging: A Thematic Analysis of Perspectives among Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary End Users

A Qualitative Study toward Technologies for Active and Healthy Aging: A Thematic Analysis of Perspectives among Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary End Users

Conception of an endodontics questionnaire in undergraduate dental education

Increasing specialist intensity at weekends to improve outcomes for patients undergoing emergency hospital admission: the HiSLAC two-phase mixed-methods study

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About