1

Chapter 14

Qualitative Designs and Approaches

Test Yourself!

2

Test Your Knowledge: Qualitative Approach

• Research situations for five fictitious studies will be described. For each, indicate which qualitative tradition likely would be used:

−A (Ethnography)−B (Phenomenology)−C (Grounded theory)

• Please answer A, B, or C for each question.

3

• 1. Smith studied the experience of learning of a parent’s cancer diagnosis, from the perspective of adolescents aged 15 to 18.

−A (Ethnography)−B (Phenomenology)−C (Grounded theory)

Test Your Knowledge: Qualitative Approach

4

• 2. Petrik studied end-of-life caregiving for elders living on a Hopi reservation in Arizona.

−A (Ethnography)−B (Phenomenology)−C (Grounded theory)

Test Your Knowledge: Qualitative Approach

5

• 3. Federle studied the meaning of the respite experience of family caregivers of patients with dementia.

−A (Ethnography)−B (Phenomenology)−C (Grounded theory)

Test Your Knowledge: Qualitative Approach

6

• 4. Viator explored how pregnant women managed the process of deciding on and implementing a home birth.

−A (Ethnography)−B (Phenomenology)−C (Grounded theory)

Test Your Knowledge: Qualitative Approach

7

• 5. Panara’s study focused on reciprocal care-seeking and caregiving behavior among patients within the culture of an in-patient mental health care facility.

−A (Ethnography)−B (Phenomenology)−C (Grounded theory)

Test Your Knowledge: Qualitative Approach

8

• 1. Smith studied the experience of learning of a parent’s cancer diagnosis, from the perspective of adolescents aged 15 to 18.

−ANSWER: B (Phenomenology)−Smith’s study focuses on a lived

experience that would likely be explored using a descriptive phenomenological approach.

Test Your Knowledge: Qualitative Approach

9

• 2. Petrik studied end-of-life caregiving for elders living on a Hopi reservation in Arizona.

−ANSWER: A (Ethnography)−Petrik’s study focuses on how

members of a particular American subculture provide end-of-life care.

Test Your Knowledge: Qualitative Approach

10

• 3. Federle studied the meaning of the respite experience of family caregivers of patients with dementia.

−ANSWER: B (Phenomenology)−Federle likely used an interpretive

phenomenological approach to study what respite meant to caregivers who care for a family member with dementia.

Test Your Knowledge: Qualitative Approach

11

• 4. Viator explored how pregnant women managed the process of deciding on and implementing a home birth.

−ANSWER: C (Grounded theory)−Viator’s study focuses on the process of

decision making and following through on a decision and would most likely use grounded theory methods.

Test Your Knowledge: Qualitative Approach

12

• 5. Panara’s study focused on reciprocal care-seeking and caregiving behavior among patients within the culture of an in-patient mental health care facility.

−ANSWER: A (Ethnography)−Panara undertook a focused ethnography

of the cultural norms and behaviors of patients in residence at a mental health care facility.

Test Your Knowledge: Qualitative Approach

13

• So the answers are: – B A B C A

• How many got all five right?

Congratulations!!!

Test Your Knowledge: Qualitative Approach