scholarly journals Not Getting Stuck in Dryness - Strategies for Coping with Phases of Spiritual Dryness Among Religious Brothers and Sisters in Germany—Findings from Qualitative Interviews

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mareike Gerundt ◽  
Yvonne Beerenbrock ◽  
Arndt Büssing
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Personal Resources ◽  
Life Situation ◽  
Religious Sisters ◽  
Spiritual Resources ◽  
Spiritual Dryness ◽  
Primary Strategy ◽  
Brothers And Sisters ◽  
Behavioral Competencies

AbstractMany believers experience phases of spiritual dryness in their lives coupled with feelings of exhaustion, confusion, and emotional emptiness. Even religious sisters and brothers experience such phases. But how do they cope with phases of spiritual dryness, and what resources do they use to overcome them? In a qualitative study, 30 religious brothers and sisters utilized four main categories of resources: internal reflective resources, internal spiritual resources, external personal resources, and external other resources. A primary strategy does not seem to exist for overcoming phases of spiritual dryness. In the context of this study, therefore, several resources emerged that were used in accordance with the triggers and were applied against the background of the life situation, context and attitudes, perceptions, behavioral competencies, resources, and abilities of the person concerned.

scholarly journals Triggers of Spiritual Dryness – Results from Qualitative Interviews with Religious Brothers and Sisters

2020 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arndt Büssing ◽  
Yvonne Beerenbrock ◽  
Mareike Gerundt ◽  
Bettina Berger
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Spiritual Dryness ◽  
Brothers And Sisters

scholarly journals Use of symptom checkers for COVID-19-related symptoms among university students: a qualitative study

2021 ◽  
pp. bmjinnov-2020-000498
Author(s):  
Stephanie Aboueid ◽  
Samantha B Meyer ◽  
James R Wallace ◽  
Shreya Mahajan ◽  
Teeyaa Nur ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Healthcare Systems ◽  
Positive Experience ◽  
Perceived Credibility ◽  
Inductive Thematic Analysis

ObjectiveSymptom checkers are potentially beneficial tools during pandemics. To increase the use of the platform, perspectives of end users must be gathered. Our objectives were to understand the perspectives and experiences of young adults related to the use of symptom checkers for assessing COVID-19-related symptoms and to identify areas for improvement.MethodsWe conducted semistructured qualitative interviews with 22 young adults (18–34 years of age) at a university in Ontario, Canada. Interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed, and analysed using inductive thematic analysis.ResultsWe identified six main themes related to the decision of using a symptom checker for COVID-19 symptoms: (1) presence of symptoms or a combination of symptoms, (2) knowledge about COVID-19 symptoms, (3) fear of seeking in-person healthcare services, (4) awareness about symptom checkers, (5) paranoia and (6) curiosity. Participants who used symptom checkers shared by governmental entities reported an overall positive experience. Individuals who used non-credible sources reported suboptimal experiences due to lack of perceived credibility. Five main areas for improvement were identified: (1) information about the creators of the platform, (2) explanation of symptoms, (3) personalised experience, (4) language options, and (5) option to get tested.ConclusionsThis study suggests an increased acceptance of symptom checkers due to the perceived risks of infection associated with seeking in-person healthcare services. Symptom checkers have the potential to reduce the burden on healthcare systems and health professionals, especially during pandemics; however, these platforms could be improved to increase use.

scholarly journals Users’ perceptions about receiving personalized depression risk information: findings from a qualitative study

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Heidi Eccles ◽  
Doaa Nadouri ◽  
Molly Nannarone ◽  
Bonnie Lashewicz ◽  
Norbert Schmitz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Risk Communication ◽  
Risk Score ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Risk Information ◽  
Depression Risk ◽  
Communication Program ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Objectives To understand users’ perceptions about receiving their personalized depression risk score and to gain an understanding about how to improve the efficiency of risk communication from the user perspective. Methods A qualitative study embedded in a randomized controlled trial (RCT) on evaluating the impact of providing personalized depression risk information on psychological harms and benefits. The participants (20 males and 20 females) were randomly selected from the intervention arm of the RCT after the 12-month assessment. The qualitative interviews were conducted through telephone, audio recorded and transcribed verbatim. We conducted a content analysis to describe the content and contextual meaning of data collected from participants. Results The first theme explained the motivation for receiving a risk score. Most participants chose to receive their personalised depression risk score with the goal of improving their self-awareness. The results revealed three sub-themes surrounding perceptions and implication of receiving their risk score: positive, negative, and neutral. Most participants found that receiving their score was positive because it improved their awareness of their mental health, but some participants could see that some people would have negative feelings when getting the score causing them to be more likely to get depression. The final theme focussed on improvements including: the best delivery methods, having resources and strategies, and targeting younger people. Conclusion The most significant motivation for, and benefit of receiving one’s personalized depression risk score was improved awareness of one’s mental health. A comprehensive risk communication program may improve the uptake and maximize the impact on behavior changes and risk reduction.

scholarly journals Fortellingens betydning for å fremme livsmotet i møte med alvorlig sykdom

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Kjersti Sunde Mæhre
Keyword(s):  
Life Story ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Severe Illness ◽  
Illness Narrative ◽  
Life Situation ◽  
Hermeneutic Phenomenological ◽  
Patient Interviews ◽  
Home Based ◽  
The Face

The importance of the story to promote hope and life courage in the face of serious illnessIn connection with my PhD (Mæhre, 2017), I conducted qualitative interviews with five critically ill patients in an enhanced ward of a nursing home, based on the Coordination Reform. The purpose of the interviews was to increase understanding of patient experiences of the ward, and their perceived challenges and needs for assistance. The research method was a hermeneutic-phenomenological approach. The essay is based on one of the patient interviews, which has been rewritten as a narrative. This narrative emphasizes how the patient has fought against her illness, and her need to be seen as herself as a person and not understood in terms of a diagnosis. The illness narrative becomes part of her life story. The article highlights opportunities for narratives in the face of serious illness. The narrative reveals how a changed life situation, despite severe illness, can add courage and joy to life, but also how it can lead to hopelessness, doubt, and uncertainty.

scholarly journals Factors Influencing Smoking Cessation Counselling: A Qualitative Study of Medical Residents

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stasi Lubansky ◽  
Corrine Y. Jurgens ◽  
Carla Boutin-Foster
Keyword(s):  
Smoking Cessation ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Perceived Barriers ◽  
Medical Residents ◽  
Practical Skills ◽  
Smoking Cessation Counselling ◽  
Continuous Care ◽  
Factors Influencing

Introduction: Physicians in training must be able to counsel their patients on smoking cessation, however, little is known about the barriers that they face to counselling their patients.Aims: The study sought to identify barriers to smoking cessation counselling specific to physicians in training.Methods: Qualitative interviews in the form of focus groups were conducted with 30 medical residents. Focus groups were audio taped, transcribed verbatim and coded by two independent reviewers. Similar codes were grouped to form categories and then aggregated to form themes.Results: Seven themes emerged describing resident barriers to provision of smoking cessation counselling : (1) Lack of self-efficacy for providing counselling; (2) their perception that patients are not willing to change; (3) a lack of available resources/information for providers and patients; (4) differences in supervising physician's recommendations; (5) perceived lack of time; (6) a perception of lack of continuous care; and (7) a lack of practical skills in counselling.Conclusions: This study highlighted residents’ perceived barriers to providing smoking cessation counselling. These barriers are similar to those encountered by other providers. Additional barriers specific to residency exist and more training is necessary.Practice Implications: The barriers that physicians encounter to smoking cessation counselling must be addressed early on in residency training.

scholarly journals Involving people with dementia and their carers in dementia education for undergraduate healthcare professionals: a qualitative study of motivation to participate and experience

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (06) ◽  
pp. 869-876 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoe Cashin ◽  
Stephanie Daley ◽  
Molly Hebditch ◽  
Leila Hughes ◽  
Sube Banerjee
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Family Involvement ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Therapeutic Benefits ◽  
People With Dementia ◽  
Motivation To Participate ◽  
Face Time ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Dementia Education

ABSTRACTBackground:There is a need to improve dementia education to prepare future generations of healthcare professionals to deal with the increasing challenges they will face. Time for Dementia is an innovative undergraduate education program for medical, nursing, and paramedic students in the south of England. Success of the program is dependent upon the participation of families (people with dementia and their carers). This qualitative study seeks to explore the motivation and experiences of the families taking part in the program.Methods:A topic guide was developed to understand factors influencing motivation and retention. A purposeful sample of participant families, who had at least 12 months of involvement in the program, were selected from a cohort of 282 families and were invited to take part in an in-depth qualitative interview. Interviews were audio recorded, transcribed verbatim, and analyzed using thematic analysis. This was subsequently refined in an on-going process of analysis aided by the use of Nvivo 11. Interviewing stopped when thematic saturation was reached.Results:Eighteen families took part in an in-depth qualitative interviews. Four themes were identified from the analysis. These themes were motivators, value to family, value to the person with dementia, and student factors.Conclusions:This study identifies underpinning factors that motivate families to join dementia education programs and the impact of such programs upon them. We found that engagement in such programs can have therapeutic benefits to participants, and do not cause harm. These findings can be used to strengthen recruitment and enhance family involvement in similar programs.

Perceptions of Affordance in an Academic Library: A Qualitative Study

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Sadler ◽  
Lisa M. Given
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Academic Librarians ◽  
Design Decisions ◽  
Base De Données

Applies ecological psychology’s concept of “affordance” to graduate students’ information behaviours given design decisions made by academic librarians. Qualitative interviews explore how students perceive and use the library’s various tools (e.g., books, databases, instructional sessions, librarians, etc.), and how students’ activities reflect librarians’ perceptions of what these tools can do.Application du concept de psychologie écologique de « l’affordance » sur les comportements informationnels des étudiants de 2e cycle concernant les décisions de conception prises par les bibliothécaires universitaires. Des entrevues qualitatives explorent la manière dont les étudiants perçoivent et utilisent divers outils de la bibliothèque (par exemple : les livres, les base de données, les sessions de formation, les bibliothécaires, etc.) et la manière dont les activités des étudiants reflètent les perceptions des bibliothécaires sur ce que ces outils peuvent faire. 

scholarly journals Parents’ and clinicians’ views on conducting paediatric diagnostic test accuracy studies without prior informed consent: qualitative insight from the Petechiae in Children study (PiC)

2019 ◽  
Vol 104 (10) ◽  
pp. 979-983 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Waterfield ◽  
Mark D Lyttle ◽  
Michael Shields ◽  
Derek Fairley ◽  
Damian Roland ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Diagnostic Test ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Diagnostic Test Accuracy ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Test Accuracy ◽  
Prior Informed Consent ◽  
Prior Consent ◽  
Opt Out ◽  
Registration Number

ObjectiveThe Petechiae in Children (PiC) study assesses the utility of presenting features and rapid diagnostic tests in the diagnosis of serious bacterial infection in feverish children with non-blanching rashes. An embedded qualitative study explored parents’ and clinicians’ views on the acceptability of the PiC study, including the use of research without prior consent (RWPC) in studies of diagnostic test accuracy.DesignSemistructured qualitative interviews. Analysis was thematic and broadly interpretive, informed by the constant comparative approach.ParticipantsFifteen parents were interviewed 55 (median) days since their child’s hospital attendance (range 13–95). Five clinicians involved in recruitment, and consent were interviewed.ResultsParents and clinicians supported RWPC for the PiC study and future emergency paediatric diagnostic test accuracy studies as long as there is no harm to the child and emergency care is not delayed. Parents and clinicians made recommendations around the timing and conduct of a consent discussion, which were in line with RWPC guidance. Parents enrolled in the PiC study preferred a design that included consent discussions with the research team over the alternative of ‘opt-out’ consent only.ConclusionsThis embedded qualitative study demonstrates that RWPC is appropriate for use in paediatric emergency studies of diagnostic test accuracy and that the approach used in PiC was appropriate. Future diagnostic studies involving additional invasive procedures or an opt-out only approach to consent would benefit from exploring parent and clinician views on acceptability at the pretrial stage.Trial registration numberNCT03378258

American Evangelicals and Islam: Their Perspectives, Attitudes and Practices Towards Muslims in the US

2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amit A Bhatia
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Religious Diversity ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Focus Group Study ◽  
Outreach Ministry ◽  
Attitudes And Practices ◽  
The Us

In light of the increasing presence of Muslims in the US, this article elucidates the perspectives, attitudes and practices of American evangelicals towards Muslims in the US. The discussion is informed by data that were gathered through a qualitative study of 40 lay American evangelicals and four pastors, as well as through a focus group study of an evangelical outreach ministry among Muslims. Literature on religious diversity in the US forms the background within which the information drawn from the qualitative interviews and focus group study is discussed and analyzed. The respondents’ perspectives and attitudes towards Islam and Muslims in general are quite negative, as well as conflicted in that while the respondents claimed to be open to interacting and dialoguing with Muslims, their practices towards Muslims were often not so hospitable. This inhospitality was a result of a general fear of Islam and Muslims exhibited by the respondents.

‘Better safe than sorry’: Women’s stories of sex and intimate relationships on the path out of drug abuse

Sexualities ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 324-343 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anette Skårner ◽  
Sven-Axel Månsson ◽  
Bengt Svensson
Keyword(s):  
Drug Abuse ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Transition Process ◽  
Sexual Scripts ◽  
Sexual Practice ◽  
Life Situation ◽  
Drug Free

This article focuses on the role of sexuality and intimate relationships during women’s exit processes from drug abuse. Drawing from qualitative interviews with Swedish women the article explores how their sexual practice is played out both during drug use and in the new drug-free life situation. The conflictual transition process evolves around the individual’s attempts to adapt to various sexual scripts made available to them. An element of shame regarding past sexual experiences is enforced by a strong desire to create a new identity as ‘ordinary’. The safest option then is to abstain from sex even if it may lead to frustration and longing. To some, toning down sexuality is a welcome respite, to others a meaningless wait. Why does the beautiful, lovely sexuality never come?

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