Researchers’ experiences and lessons learned from doing mixed-methods research with a population with intellectual disabilities: Insights from the SOPHIE study

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 250-265
Author(s):  
Deirdre Corby ◽  
Mary Rose Sweeney
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Recruitment Methods ◽  
Phone Calls ◽  
Good Quality Research

Researchers are challenged to provide opportunities for people with intellectual disabilities (IDs) and their families to become participants in research. This article explores the processes and procedures involved in conducting a mixed-methods study. The preparation for the study is described and explained. Recruitment is examined by describing the process and analysing phone calls made to potential participants. Reflections of research team members help to develop the analysis and contribute to a discussion of the fieldwork. Lessons learned show that research projects involving people with IDs and their families need careful planning and have additional costs. The research team requires a mix of expertise. Traditional recruitment methods may not be suitable, and researchers need to build good relationships with gatekeepers so that participants can be contacted directly. Good quality research with people with IDs and their families is possible once suitable strategies are employed throughout the research process.

scholarly journals Engaging Knowledge Users with Mental Health Experience in a Mixed-Methods Systematic Review of Post-secondary Students with Psychosis: Reflections and Lessons Learned from a Master’s Thesis

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Sanderson ◽  
Amanda Vandyk ◽  
Jean Daniel Jacob ◽  
Ian D. Graham
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Secondary Students ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Advisory Panel ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Master's Thesis

Engaging knowledge users (KUs) as research team members throughout the research process helps generate relevant knowledge and may improve uptake of research results. The purpose of this article is to describe how an integrated knowledge translation (iKT) approach was embedded within a master’s thesis project comprising a mixed-methods systematic review. KUs were engaged in four distinct phases of the systematic review process, including (1) proposal development; (2) development of the research question and approach; (3) creation of an advisory panel; and (4) an end of study meeting to interpret findings and plan dissemination of findings. The extent of each KU’s engagement on the research team fluctuated during the study. Challenges included maintaining the same KUs throughout the project and maintaining the scope of the project to align with a master’s thesis. Our suggestions for optimizing graduate student iKT projects include having regular team meetings and periodically checking in with team members to encourage reflection on overall engagement and progress of the project. Overall, KUs helped create a research project designed to address their needs and provided input on how results might translate into implications for clinical practice, education, academic policy, and future research within their respective contexts.

Visualizing Dynamic Fully Integrated Mixed Method Designs

2020 ◽  
pp. 65-77
Author(s):  
Elizabeth G. Creamer
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Interdisciplinary Team ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Fully Integrated ◽  
Conventional Practice

There are few models that embody ways to visualize the interactive and often dialectical interplay evident in methodologically complex, integrated mixed methods research especially when it involves collaborators or a research team. This methodological article informs both teaching and practice by highlighting 3 diverse examples of dynamic procedural diagrams that foreground integration. The models depart from the conventional practice of using a figure with a static, linear orientation to one that embodies fluidity within and across phases of the research process. The models contribute to the methodological literature by extending thinking about procedural diagrams during reporting to include the dynamics of an interdisciplinary team and/or other collaborators.

Planning and Conducting a Large-Scale Mixed Methods Research Study: Research Team Experiences and Recommendations

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 283-295
Author(s):  
Katrin Niglas ◽  
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Meril Ümarik ◽  
Maarja Tinn ◽  
Ivor Goodson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Study Research

scholarly journals Mixed Methods Research in Developing Country Contexts: Lessons From Field Research in Six Countries Across Africa and the Caribbean

2021 ◽  
pp. 155868982110328
Author(s):  
Jamelia Harris
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Research Experience ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
The Caribbean

Mixed methods research in developing countries has been increasing since the turn of the century. Given this, there is need to consolidate insights for future researchers. This article contributes to the methodological literature by exploring how cultural factors and logistical challenges in developing contexts interplay with mixed methods research design and implementation. Insights are based on the author’s research experience of using mixed methods in six projects across three African and three Caribbean countries. Three lessons are provided to aid researchers using mixed methods working in developing countries. First, cultural factors call for more reflexivity. Second, adopting a pragmatic research paradigm is necessary. And third, the research process should be iterative and adaptive.

Poetry and Mixed Methods Research

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-165
Author(s):  
Mandy M. Archibald ◽  
Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Hermeneutic Circle ◽  
Arts Based Research ◽  
Research Designs ◽  
Human Creativity ◽  
Poetic Representation

Integration—or the meaningful bringing together of different data sets, sampling strategies, research designs, analytic procedures, inferences, or the like—is considered by many to be the hallmark characteristic of mixed methods research. Poetry, with its innate capacity for leveraging human creativity, and like arts-based research more generally, which can provide holistic and complexity-based perspectives through various approaches to data collection, analysis, and representation, can offer something of interest to dialogue on integration in mixed methods research. Therefore, in this editorial, we discuss and promote the use of poetry in mixed methods research. We contend that the complexities and mean-making parallelisms between poetry and mixed methods research render them relevant partners in a quest to complete the hermeneutic circle whose origin represents experiences, phenomena, information, and/or the like. We advance the notion that including poetic representation facilitates the mixed methods research process as a dynamic, iterative, interactive, synergistic, integrative, holistic, embodied, creative, artistic, and transformational meaning-making process that opens up a new epistemological, theoretical, and methodological space. We refer to this as the fourth space, where the quantitative, qualitative, mixed methods, and poetic research traditions intersect to enable different and deeper levels of meaning making to occur. We end our editorial with a poetic representation driven by a word count analysis of our editorial and that synthesizes our thoughts regarding the intersection of poetry and mixed methods research within this fourth space—a representation that we have entitled, “Dear Article.”

Intersectionality as an Analytic Sensibility in Cultural Research

2021 ◽  
pp. 389-409
Author(s):  
Kevin Delucio ◽  
Adrian J. Villicana
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Complete Picture ◽  
Marginalized Populations ◽  
Cultural Research

Intersectionality is gaining popularity as a lens through which the experiences of marginalized populations can be considered. However, in regards to cultural research, how can an intersectional sensibility be implemented to ensure the complete picture of a given phenomenon is captured? The purpose of this chapter is to understand how to engage intersectionality as a lens to conceptualize the cultural research process. How intersectionality can be framed as an analytic sensibility in psychological research is first examined. Then an ecological conceptualization of culture is highlighted that incorporates tenets of intersectionality, and an exploration is presented of how intersectionality disrupts dominant ideas within cultural research processes and methodologies. The chapter concludes by detailing how quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods research can reflect intersectionality as an analytic sensibility when aiming to conduct cultural research.

Research E-Journaling to Enhance Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research

2015 ◽  
pp. 673-718 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shalin Hai-Jew
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Electronic Version ◽  
Research Quality ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Critical Elements ◽  
Research Journal

In qualitative and mixed methods research, the researcher and/or research team are critical elements in the research. Given perceptual, cognitive, and memory limitations, human researchers can often bring these shortcomings to their research and decision-making. To combat such tendencies, researcher reflection, self-awareness, and self-critique are seen as some research controls, as are various standardizations in research to control for bias and to provide for multiple points-of-view. One tool that has long been used for researcher reflection to promote research quality has been the research journal. Research journals are field texts created by the researcher or a research team to make sense of the research work; these are professional forms of narrative analyses or narrative inquiries to enhance researcher self-consciousness of their work, their reasoning, their decision-making, and their conclusions. A contemporaneous electronic version of the qualitative or mixed methods research journal is multimedia-based (including visuals, audio, and video) and may be built in data management software programs, shared cloud-based work sites, or simple folders or digital objects. Guided research e-journals may be structured for the elicitation and capture of specific information to ensure researcher attentiveness, awareness, mindfulness, and thoroughness. Guided electronic journaling (used prior to, during, and post-research) may be used to enhance research quality. This chapter proposes a partial typology of guided structures for research journaling and suggests channels for publishing and distributing research e-journals.

Negotiating Participatory Research Processes With Domestic Violence Program Staff to Obtain Ecologically Valid Data

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (23-24) ◽  
pp. 4817-4837 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nkiru Nnawulezi ◽  
Cris M. Sullivan ◽  
Suzanne Marcus ◽  
Latoya Young ◽  
Margaret Hacskaylo
Keyword(s):  
Participatory Research ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Ecological Validity ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Community Partner ◽  
Community Partners ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Staff Members

The choice of research design affects not only internal and external validity but ecological validity as well. Ecological validity refers to the extent to which data are based in and relevant to real-world settings. One way for researchers to maximize the likelihood of achieving ecological validity is to design studies with community partners that use participatory approaches. Engaging deeply with community partners in determining what to study, how to measure constructs of interest, interpreting results, and using findings to create change is one means of conducting research that is likely to produce findings that are meaningful to communities. Conducting in-depth, participatory research within agencies providing crisis supports to individuals who have experienced trauma creates an additional level of complexity in the research process. This article presents a case example of how academic researchers and staff members of a nonprofit organization working with survivors of intimate partner violence collaborated on an evaluation of the community partner agency. As part of this process, the team members had to be continually aware of and responsive to the nature of crisis-focused work. We provide a reflexive account of the lessons learned and recommendations for future research.

Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Research Sampling Strategies

Education ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy C. Guetterman
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Target Population ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Sampling Strategies ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Research ◽  
Purposeful Sampling ◽  
Relationship Of

Sampling is a critical, often overlooked aspect of the research process. The importance of sampling extends to the ability to draw accurate inferences, and it is an integral part of qualitative guidelines across research methods. Sampling considerations are important in quantitative and qualitative research when considering a target population and when drawing a sample that will either allow us to generalize (i.e., quantitatively) or go into sufficient depth (i.e., qualitatively). While quantitative research is generally concerned with probability-based approaches, qualitative research typically uses nonprobability purposeful sampling approaches. Scholars generally focus on two major sampling topics: sampling strategies and sample sizes. Or simply, researchers should think about who to include and how many; both of these concerns are key. Mixed methods studies have both qualitative and quantitative sampling considerations. However, mixed methods studies also have unique considerations based on the relationship of quantitative and qualitative research within the study.

scholarly journals Mixed Methods Research in Library and Information Science: A Methodological Review

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 106-125
Author(s):  
Richard Hayman ◽  
Erika E Smith
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Methodological Review ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Health Related Research ◽  
Health Related

Abstract Objective - To review mixed methods research trends in the field of library and information science (LIS). In particular, we examine the extent to which research about or using mixed methods has been occurring in library and information science over the past decade (2008-2018), and how much of that mixed methods research is done in health contexts. Methods - We conducted a methodological review and analysis of mixed methods research (MMR) in LIS for published articles indexed in LISTA and Web of Science. After deduplication and verification for inclusion, we coded 417 articles to identify contributions using or about MMR. Given the connections between evidence based practice in health and LIS, we also identified whether articles about or using mixed methods were health-focused. Results - We found MMR to be a tiny proportion (less than 0.5%) of the overall LIS research literature. In terms of observable trends, while contributions about MMR remain fairly static, there has been an increase in articles using mixed methods. Of the 417 included articles, 373 (89.5%) primarily used mixed methods and 44 (10.5%) were primarily about MMR. Results also demonstrated that health-related research both using and about mixed methods has a strong presence in the LIS literature, with 136 published articles (32.6% of the total). Conclusion - Confirming findings of prior analyses of research methods in LIS, our methodological review shows current opportunities to adopt and expand the use of mixed methods research processes. Further contributions about mixed methods research, and ideally connecting research and practice in LIS, are needed. Despite the small proportion of MMR in LIS research, there is an observable increase in the number of publications using mixed methods during this timeframe. The LIS research community can promote additional growth by leveraging this momentum around using mixed methods, and look to translate lessons learned about mixed methods research and practice in health contexts to other LIS settings. Recommendations include developing educational opportunities and learning resources that facilitate wider engagement with MMR in LIS contexts.

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