Qualitative Designs
An OT researcher wants to understand what it feels like for adults with spinal cord injuries to learn to perform self-care activities again.
What is phenomenology?
This is when researchers return findings, themes, or interpretations to participants for feedback.
What is member checking?
This element of trustworthiness refers to the extent to which findings may apply to other settings, populations, or contexts.
What is transferability?
This is when researchers discuss findings with colleagues who challenge interpretations and identify biases.
What is peer debriefing or peer review of coding?
This element of trustworthiness refers to confidence that the findings accurately represent participants' experiences, perspectives, and realities.
What is credibility?
An OT researcher spends a year studying the daily routines and cultural practices of an Amish community to understand occupational participation.
What is ethnography?
The strategy of using multiple data sources, researchers, methods, or perspectives.
What is triangulation?
This element of trustworthiness refers to the stability and consistency of the research process over time.
What is dependability?
This strategy provides rich, detailed descriptions of participants, settings, and contexts.
What is thick description?
This element of trustworthiness refers to the extent to which findings are grounded in the data rather than in the researcher's biases, assumptions, or preferences.
What is confirmability?
An OT researcher collects life stories from older adults about aging in place and analyzes how they describe their occupational identities.
What is narrative?
This strategy requires maintaining detailed documentation of research decisions and procedures.
What is an audit trail?
This element of trustworthiness asks, "Are the findings believable?" and employs member checking, triangulation, and peer debriefing.
What is credibility?
This is when researchers intentionally select participants with experiences relevant to the phenomenon being studied.
What is purposeful sampling?
This element of trustworthiness allows readers of the research working in similar settings to determine whether findings may apply to their circumstances.
What is transferability?
An OT researcher collaborates with homeless veterans to identify barriers to employment and jointly develops community solutions.
What is participatory action?
This strategy involves researchers documenting their assumptions, reactions, and biases throughout the study.
What is reflexive journaling?
This element of trustworthiness asks, "Are the findings grounded in participant data?"
What is confirmability?
This strategy is employed when researchers return the findings to participants and ask whether the themes accurately reflect their experiences.
What is member checking?
Strategies of using an external audit, code-recode, and an audit trail support which element of trustworthiness?
What is dependability?