Data Analysis
This is the first of Braun & Clarke's six phases, involving repeated reading and noting initial ideas
What is Familiarizing yourself with the data?
The ethical principle requiring researchers to fully explain the study's procedures and risks before participants agree to take part.
What is Informed Consent?
This method seeks to understand the lived experiences of individuals regarding a specific concept or phenomenon.
What is Phenomenology?
A sampling technique where initial participants recommend other individuals who fit the study's inclusion criteria.
What is Snowball Sampling
A researcher encounters a participant's quote that strongly suggests a crime occurred. The Ethical principle that demands they prioritize the participant's well-being and privacy conflicts with the legal obligation to report the crime.
What is an example of a dilemma between Beneficence and Confidentiality?
This phase involves checking the themes against the original data set and the coded extracts to ensure they accurately reflect the data
What is Reviewing themes?
This institutional body reviews and approves research involving human subjects to ensure ethical standards are met.
What is the Institutional Review Board (IRB)?
This method involves developing an inductive theory that explains a process, action, or interaction based on the views of research participants.
What is Grounded Theory?
This data collection method involves the systematic review of existing records like diaries, policy manuals, or official reports.
What is Document Analysis?
A public-health NGO wants to understand how community norms, power structures, and shared narratives shape vaccine hesitancy in a rural district. This design uncovers cultural patterns rather than individual perspectives.
What is an example of a design using ethnography?
This term refers to the smallest unit of analysis, which is a label assigned to a piece of data that summarises its basic meaning.
What is a code?
Ensuring that participants' identifying information is not revealed to anyone outside the research team, often by assigning ID numbers.
What is Anonymity?
A detailed, in-depth investigation of a single entity, such as an individual, a group, an event, or an organization.
What is Case Study
The selection of participants based on the researcher's knowledge of the population and the specific study goals.
What is Purposive Sampling?
A mental-health institute has accumulated years of case notes and wants to identify shared patterns in clients’ coping processes without gathering new data.
What is an example of thematic analysis?
A theme is considered a good one if it captures something important about the data in relation to this initial statement that guided the research.
What is the research question?
This ethical requirement ensures that the benefits of the research outweigh any potential risks or harms to participants.
What is Beneficence?
A study focusing on how people in a certain culture or social group talk about, categorize, and understand the world.
What is Ethnography?
The point in data collection when new information ceases to yield new codes or themes.
What is Data Saturation?
This method balances guided questions with space for participants to share unanticipated insights.
What is a semi-structured interview?
This keyword characteristic, usually meaning witty conversation, refers in thematic analysis to words that are insightful, evocative, and stimulate further discussion.
What is Repartee?
The practice of withholding certain study details from participants to maintain the integrity of the study, which must be followed by a full explanation afterward.
What is Deception?
This is the primary data collection method used in ethnography, often involving the researcher living or working within the community being studied.
What is Participant Observation?
A collection method that brings together a small group (typically 6-10 people) to gather diverse perspectives and observe social interaction on a specific topi
What is a Focus Group Discussion
An example of this is when participants are offered AED 100 to complete a 10-minute survey.
What is an example of the violation of Voluntary Participation?