scholarly journals Methodological path to reach the degree of saturation in qualitative research: grounded theory

2022 ◽  
Vol 75 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cleson Oliveira de Moura ◽  
Ítalo Rodolfo Silva ◽  
Thiago Privado da Silva ◽  
Karoliny Alves Santos ◽  
Maria da Conceição Albernaz Crespo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Conceptual Models ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Family Health ◽  
Degree Of Saturation ◽  
Substantive Theory ◽  
New Codes ◽  
Theoretical Saturation

ABSTRACT Objectives: to achieve the degree of saturation in study that applied the grounded theory. Methods: qualitative research, carried out in four Family Health Units, between June 2018 and May 2019. The data from the interviews with 30 health professionals and non-participant observation were coded in the stages: open, axial and integration. Results: the degree of saturation was achieved by two conceptual models - theoretical saturation and inductive thematic. Theoretical saturation was considered: the development of conceptual codes and observation, in the collection and analysis of data, when they generated new categories/subcategories or only indicated increasing instances. For thematic inductive saturation, the use of new codes based on each interview stood out. Final Considerations: the visual layout for the number of codes, the theoretical scope of the concepts and the delimitation of the sample groups guided the identification of the degree of saturation for the development of the conceptual body that supported the substantive theory.

scholarly journals Construção de um modelo teórico sobre o cuidar da pessoa com tuberculose na perspectiva da Grounded Theory

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (13) ◽  
pp. 72
Author(s):  
Elisângela Franco de Oliveira Calvacante ◽  
Denise Maria Guerreiro Vieira da Silva ◽  
Gracimary Alves Teixeira ◽  
Jovanka Bittencourt Leite de Carvalho ◽  
Flavio Cesar Bezerra da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Process Of Care ◽  
Substantive Theory ◽  
Data Collection And Analysis ◽  
Open Coding ◽  
The Common ◽  
Theoretical Saturation ◽  
Taking Care

Resumo: A Grounded theory possibilita a construção de uma teoria substantiva, abstraindo dados de casos a conceitos, convertendo-os num conjunto de afirmações que elucidam os acontecimentos. Este artigo objetiva descrever a elaboração de modelo teórico sobre o processo de cuidado à pessoa com tuberculose a partir dos pressupostos metodológicos da Grounded theory, segundo Anselm Strauss e Juliet Corbin. O número de participantes deu-se pela amostragem e saturação teórica, originando quatro grupos amostrais, por meio de questionamentos e análise comparativa dos dados. A coleta e análise ocorreram simultaneamente. Na codificação, teve-se: codificação aberta; codificação axial, regrupando conceitos em torno de assunto comum, originou-se as categorias e subcategorias; e com o refinamento e integração das categorias, chegou-se à codificação seletiva, e construção do modelo teórico. O modelo teórico elaborado constitui uma representação do fenômeno “cuidando da pessoa com tuberculose na atenção básica de saúde”. Configuram-se, neste modelo, as categorias referentes às condições causais, às interventoras, às contextuais, às ações/interações e às consequências deste fenômeno.Palavras-chave: Grounded theory; Pesquisa Qualitativa; Modelos de Enfermagem; Tuberculose. Construction of a theoretical model on taking care of tuberculosis in the perspective of Grounded TheoryAbstract: Grounded theory enables the construction of a substantive theory, abstracting data from cases to concepts, converting them into a set of statements that elucidate events. This article aims to describe the elaboration of a theoretical model about the process of care of the person with tuberculosis, based on the methodological assumptions of Grounded Theory, according to Anselm Strauss and Juliet Corbin. The number of participants was given by sampling and theoretical saturation, giving rise to four sample groups, through questioning and comparative analysis of the data. Collection and analysis occurred simultaneously. In the coding, we had: open coding; axial encoding, regrouping concepts around the common subject, the categories and subcategories originated; and with the refinement and integration of the categories, we came to the selective codification, and construction of the theoretical model. The theoretical model elaborated constitutes a representation of the phenomenon "taking care of the person with tuberculosis in basic health care". In this model, the categories referring to the causal conditions, the interveners, the contexts, the actions / interactions and the consequences of this phenomenon.Keywords: Grounded Theory; Qualitative Research; Models, Nursing; Tuberculosis. 

scholarly journals Conceptions of the professionals about their attributions in the Expanded Nucleus of Family Health

Psico-USF ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 661-671
Author(s):  
Meyrielle Belotti ◽  
Alexandra Iglesias ◽  
Luziane Zacché Avellar
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Family Health ◽  
Work Processes ◽  
The Family ◽  
Specialized Care

Abstract The article aims to analyze the conceptions conferred by the health professionals that compose the Expanded Nuclei of Family Health (NASF) on their work assignments. This is a qualitative research, in which was used, for the data collection, eight focus groups, with a total of 43 participants. The data were submitted to content analysis. The results outlined the following categories: integrating NASF work with the Family Health Teams (ESF); developing specialized care; promoting intersectionality; contributing to the promotion of teamwork in Primary Care (AB) and strengthening AB. The study indicates the importance of a better understanding of the functions of the NASF, so that it does not restrict the opportunity to perform specialized care in AB. It is pointed out, the need for adjustments in the work processes of the ESF, in order to enable the shared work in the AB.

scholarly journals The elderly recognizing themselves as vulnerable to falls in the concreteness of the femoral fracture

2017 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
pp. 279-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
César Junior Aparecido de Carvalho ◽  
Silvia Cristina Mangini Bocchi
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Symbolic Interactionism ◽  
Fall Prevention ◽  
Femoral Fracture ◽  
Signs And Symptoms ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Theoretical Saturation

ABSTRACT Objectives: understand the experience of the elderly with falls followed by femoral fracture and elaborate theoretical model of this process of lived experience. Method: qualitative research with theoretical saturation through analysis of the ninth nondirected interview of elderly who underwent such experience. Interviews were recorded, transcribed, and analyzed according to Grounded Theory. Results: three categories emerged (sub-processes): evaluating signs and symptoms of fracture after the fall; feeling sad and insecure with the new condition; and finding oneself susceptible to fractures. From realignment of these categories (sub-processes) we could abstract the central category (process), recognizing oneself as vulnerable to falls in the concreteness of the fracture. Conclusion: the theoretical model considering the Symbolic Interactionism signals the implementation of continued program for fall prevention, with teaching strategies that encourage the elderly to reflect on the concreteness of contexts in which there is risk of occurring injury to their health.

scholarly journals Conceptions held by health professionals on violence against children and adolescents within the family

2008 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 136-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Brandt Nunes ◽  
Cynthia Andersen Sarti ◽  
Conceição Vieira da Silva Ohara
Keyword(s):  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Family Health ◽  
Physical Punishment ◽  
Basic Unit ◽  
Case Study Methodology ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
The Family

The present study sought to understand the conceptions held by health professionals with regards to violence within the family against children and adolescents. Qualitative case-study methodology and techniques of participant observation, interviewing, and search in documents were used. Participants were staffed in a government-run Family Health Basic Unit in Brazil. Health professionals were found to associate violence with the economic, social, and political juncture and with cultural aspects; for some, violent acts are part of the intergenerational cycle and family dynamics. Physical punishment, considered as violence by some, is advocated as an educational measure by others. Participants also base their definition of violence on an a priori construction of subjects as either victims or aggressors, thus missing the relational dimension of the phenomenon. Health professionals were found to have difficulty in understanding violence in the context that gives it a meaning and to recognize it as consequence of a complex relational dynamics.

Rigor in Grounded Theory Research

2011 ◽  
pp. 79-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Gasson
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
Substantive Theory ◽  
Coding Schemes ◽  
Grounded Theory Research ◽  
Alternative Assessments ◽  
Inductive Theory ◽  
Theory Generation ◽  
Theory Research ◽  
Theoretical Saturation

This chapter presents a set of principles for the use of Grounded Theory techniques in qualitative field studies. Some issues and controversies relating to rigor in Grounded Theory generation are discussed. These include: inductive theory generation and emergence, how theoretical saturation may be judged, the extent to which coding schemes should be formalized, the objectivist-subjectivist debate, and the assessment of quality and rigor in interpretive research. It is argued that Grounded Theory is often criticized for a lack of rigor because we apply positivist evaluations of rigor to research that derives from an interpretive worldview. Alternative assessments of rigor are suggested, that emphasize reflexivity in the inductive-deductive cycle of substantive theory generation.

Learning Conversation and Shared Network Leadership

2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 181-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jürgen Weibler ◽  
Sigrid Rohn-Endres
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Interorganizational Networks ◽  
Original Network ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Collective Processes ◽  
Shared Network ◽  
Practical Implications

This paper develops an understanding of how shared leadership emerges in social network interactions. On the basis of a qualitative research design (grounded theory methodology – GTM) our study in two interorganizational networks offers insights into the interplay between structures, individuals, and the collective for the emergence of shared network leadership (SNL). The network-specific Gestalt of SNL appears as a pattern of collective and individual leadership activities unified under the roof of a highly developed learning conversation. More importantly, our findings support the idea that individual network leadership would not emerge without embeddedness in certain high-quality collective processes of relating and dialogue. Both theoretical and practical implications of this original network leadership perspective are discussed.

Studying Globalization at Home

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunil Bhatia
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Cultural Narratives ◽  
Cultural Codes ◽  
Qualitative Approaches ◽  
Interpretive Methods ◽  
Significant Interest ◽  
At Home

This chapter documents the ethnographic context in which the interviews and participant observation were conducted for the study presented in this book. It also situates the study within the context of narrative inquiry and develops arguments about the role of self-reflexivity in doing ethnography at “home” and producing qualitative forms of knowledge that are based on personal, experiential, and cultural narratives. It is argued that there is significant interest in the adoption of interpretive methods or qualitative research in psychology. The qualitative approaches in psychology present a provocative and complex vision of how the key concepts related to describing and interpreting cultural codes, social practices, and lived experience of others are suffused with both poetical and political elements of culture. The epistemological and ontological assumptions undergirding qualitative research reflect multiple “practices of inquiry” and methodologies that have different orientations, assumptions, values, ideologies, and criterion of excellence.

scholarly journals Investigation of ill-defined causes of death: assessment of a program's performance in a State from the Northeastern region of Brazil

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Barboza França ◽  
Carolina Cândida da Cunha ◽  
Ana Maria Nogales Vasconcelos ◽  
Juan José Cortez Escalante ◽  
Daisy Xavier de Abreu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Professionals ◽  
Causes Of Death ◽  
Family Health ◽  
Completion Rate ◽  
Epidemiological Surveillance ◽  
Mortality Data ◽  
Hospital Records ◽  
Brazilian Government ◽  
Probabilistic Sample

OBJECTIVE: The proportion of ill-defined causes of death (IDCD) was persistently high in some regions of Brazil in 2004. In 2005, the Brazilian government implemented a project in order to decrease this proportion, especially in higher priority states and municipalities. This study aimed to evaluate the performance of this project in Alagoas - a state from the Northeast region of Brazil. METHOD: We selected a probabilistic sample of 18 municipalities. For all IDCD identified in 2010, we collected the verbal autopsy (VA) questionnaires used for home investigation, and the Ministry of Health (MoH) form, which contains information about the final disease and cause of death taken from hospital records, autopsies, family health teams, and civil registry office records. The completion rate of the MoH form and VA was calculated using the number of deaths with specific causes assigned among investigated deaths. RESULTS: A total of 681 IDCD were recorded in 2010 in the sample, of which 26% had a MoH and/or VA3 forms completed. Although the majority of cases were attended by health professionals during the terminal disease, the completion rate was 45% using the MoH form and 80% when VA was performed. CONCLUSIONS: Our findings provide evidence that the training of the epidemiological surveillance teams in the investigation and certification of causes of death could contribute to improve the quality of mortality data.

Managing Digital Identities: A Grounded Theory of Mental Health Professionals’ Participation in Online Social Networking

2021 ◽  
pp. 104438942110144
Author(s):  
Kara S. Lopez ◽  
Susan P. Robbins
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Social Process ◽  
Main Concern ◽  
Research Interviews ◽  
Glaserian Grounded Theory ◽  
Digital Identities

Despite the meteoric rise of social media, little is known about how clinical social workers and other mental health professionals respond to this new form of communication. This study used classic (Glaserian) grounded theory methodology to explore the experiences and concerns of mental health professionals on social networking websites such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. The main concern that emerged out of research interviews with 26 mental health professionals was a loss of control over others’ perceptions and the loss of ability to compartmentalize the different parts of identities associated with personal and professional selves. Participants resolved these concerns through the author-identified basic social process of “managing digital identities.” This study highlights practice implications for professionals as they manage online identity.

Information transformation: Some missing links

2007 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 157-172
Author(s):  
Ivan P. Vaghely ◽  
Pierre-André Julien ◽  
André Cyr
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Information Processing ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Human Information Processing ◽  
Process Information ◽  
Information Transformation ◽  
Efficient Information

Using grounded theory along with participant observation and interviews the authors explore how individuals in organizations process information. They build a model of human information processing which links the cognitivist-constructionist perspective to an algorithmic-heuristic continuum. They test this model using non-parametric procedures and find interesting results showing links to efficient information processing outcomes such as contributions to decision-making, knowledge-creation and innovation. They also identify some elements of best practice by efficient human information processing individuals whom they call the “information catalysts”.

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