Messiness in international qualitative interviewing: What I did, what I didn’t do, and a little bit about why

2021 ◽  
pp. 147332502110431
Author(s):  
Rebecca Soraya Field ◽  
Angela Barns ◽  
Donna Chung ◽  
Caroline Fleay
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Human Service ◽  
First Person ◽  
Qualitative Interviewing ◽  
Lessons Learnt ◽  
Person Account ◽  
Cross National

This is a reflexive account of the messiness experienced by a Persian-Australian doctoral researcher interviewing social work and human service practitioners and people seeking asylum in Germany. This data collection was part of a cross-national comparative study of the impacts of policy on the experiences and perceptions of people seeking asylum and social work and human service practitioners in Bavaria and Western Australia. Through interview stories and the work of others, this article offers a first person account of the complexities, ambiguities and dilemmas that can occur before, during and after data collection, how these were navigated through the use of Finlay's (2012) five lenses for the reflexive interviewer, and some of the lessons learnt.

Consequences of the COVID‐19 pandemic on the postpartum course: Lessons learnt from a large‐scale comparative study in a teaching hospital

2021 ◽  
Vol 153 (2) ◽  
pp. 315-321
Author(s):  
Nir Kugelman ◽  
Mirit Toledano‐Hacohen ◽  
Debjyoti Karmakar ◽  
Yakir Segev ◽  
Eiman Shalabna ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Teaching Hospital ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Lessons Learnt

The Management of Aggression and Violence Attitude Scale (MAVAS): a cross-national comparative study

2008 ◽  
Vol 62 (5) ◽  
pp. 596-606 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joy Duxbury ◽  
Sabine Hahn ◽  
Ian Needham ◽  
Dave Pulsford
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Attitude Scale ◽  
Cross National

Effectiveness of Psychological First Aid Training for social work students, practitioners and human service professionals in Alberta, Canada

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-21
Author(s):  
Nasreen Lalani ◽  
Julie Drolet
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Training Program ◽  
Human Service ◽  
Disaster Preparedness ◽  
Psychosocial Support ◽  
Social Work Students ◽  
First Aid ◽  
Human Service Professionals ◽  
Psychological First Aid ◽  
First Aid Training

Psychological First Aid (PFA) is becoming a universally accepted intervention in providing psychosocial support to individuals and families affected by trauma or disaster.  Our study aimed to measure the effectiveness of a didactic and simulation based Psychological First Aid (PFA) training program in Alberta, Canada.  Social work students, practitioners, and human service professionals from Calgary, Edmonton, and Lethbridge were invited to attend the training.  A total of 90 participants attended the training at three different sites. A pre and post survey questionnaire was administered to all the participants before and after the training.  Findings showed that the training has significantly improved participants’ PFA knowledge and perceived competence in PFA skill.  PFA training enhanced their confidence, disaster preparedness, and self-care strategies needed to provide psychosocial support to individuals and families in disaster situations. Our study provides preliminary evidence supporting the effectiveness of the PFA training program among social work students, practitioners and human service professionals for future disaster preparedness in Alberta, Canada.Keywords: Psychological first aid, social work, disaster preparedness, training, competency, effectiveness, Canada

scholarly journals Dementia and literature

2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 439-445 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher A. Vassilas
Keyword(s):  
Scar Tissue ◽  
First Person ◽  
Iris Murdoch ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Jewish Migration ◽  
Two Generations ◽  
Four Books ◽  
Person Account ◽  
The Uk

As we doctors are beginning to understand more and more about dementia, the public has become increasingly aware of the condition and in turn this has been reflected in the arts. This article discusses four books whose main focus is the experience of dementia, each written from an entirely different perspective: a novel giving a first-person account of dementia by the Dutch writer J. Bernlef; a biography of the famous novelist Iris Murdoch by her husband John Bayley; Linda Grant's account of her mother's multi-infarct dementia (which also describes Jewish migration to the UK two generations ago); and Michael Igniateff's autobiographical novel Scar Tissue. Such accounts, offering insights into how patients and carers feel, cannot but help make us better doctors.

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