scholarly journals When Crises Change the Game: Establishing a Typology of Sports-Related Crises

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-70
Author(s):  
Natalie Brown-Devlin ◽  
Kenon Brown
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Crisis Communication ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Analysis Study ◽  
Comprehensive List

In order to properly evaluate crises that occur in sports, scholars have previously called for a sports-specific crisis communication typology (Wilson, Stavros, & Westberg, 2010). Two studies were conducted to develop the resulting typology. Study 1 utilized a questionnaire to obtain a comprehensive list of sports-related crises that were later grouped into twelve crisis types and three unique clusters through the use of qualitative content analysis. Study 2 utilized a questionnaire completed by 282 college students to determine the levels of crisis responsibility attributed to each cluster of crises. The resulting typology provides the necessary foundation for crisis communication research that uses sports as a context by evaluating the level of organizational blame that exists when a crisis occurs.

scholarly journals College Students, Experiences on Smart Phone Technology Usage: A Qualitative Content Analysis Study

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fatemeh Jafarzadeh-Kenarsari ◽  
Parand Pourghane
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Behavioral Problems ◽  
Computer Games ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Smart Phone ◽  
Technology Usage ◽  
Analysis Study ◽  
Culture Development

Besides many benefits of the cell phone technology, numerous arguments are raised on the different and important negative effects of such a technology. This qualitative content analysis study explored the common usages of smart phone technology, its challenges, and benefits among Iranian college students. Participants were 32 bachelor degree students who were recruited using purposive sampling method with maximum variation. Data were collected through 11 individual semi-structured interviews and 3 focus group discussions (5-8 students in each group). Data analysis was done based on a conventional content analysis approach. Data analysis resulted in 3 main themes and 12 sub-themes. The main themes included “Easy life” (achieving information, handling school affairs, easy communication, and cheap communication); “Spending time” (virtual friendship, participation in various social networks, computer games, watching movies and cartoons, and reading stories and novels); and “The experience of challenges” (physical problems, psychosocial stress, and mood and behavioral problems). Based on the students' experiences about the smart phones technology usage, authorities, cultural institutions, and educational policy makers should encourage culture development using education through media and education during the early childhood and before using any software.

Feeling an Invisible Wall: The Experience of Iranian Women's Marital Relationship After Surgical Menopause: A Qualitative Content Analysis Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 (7) ◽  
pp. 627-640 ◽  
Author(s):  
Om Salimeh Roudi Rasht Abadi ◽  
Mohammad Ali Cheraghi ◽  
Batool Tirgari ◽  
Nahid Dehaghan Nayeri ◽  
Masoud Rayyani
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Marital Relationship ◽  
Analysis Study ◽  
Surgical Menopause

scholarly journals The Meaning Extraction Method: A Complementary Approach to Content Analysis for Communication Research

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Matthew Markowitz
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Extraction Method ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Massive Datasets ◽  
Qualitative Approaches ◽  
Complementary Approach ◽  
Content Analyses

Qualitative content analyses often rely on a top-down approach to understand themes in a collection of texts. A codebook prescribes how humans should qualitatively judge whether a text fits a theme based on rules and judgment criteria. Qualitative approaches are challenging because they require many resources (e.g., coders, training, rounds of coding), can be affected by researcher or coder bias, and may miss meaningful patterns that deviate from the codebook. A complementary, bottom-up approach — the Meaning Extraction Method — has been popular in social psychology but rarely applied to communication research. This paper outlines the value of qualitative content analysis and the Meaning Extraction Method, concluding with a guide to conduct analyses of content and themes from massive datasets, quantitatively. The Meaning Extraction Method is performed on a public and published archive of pet adoption profiles to demonstrate the approach. Considerations for communication research are offered.

scholarly journals Barriers and Facilitators of Adherence to the COVID-19 Prevention Guidelines: A Qualitative Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-20
Author(s):  
Shoaib Dehghani ◽  
◽  
Arash Pooladi ◽  
Bijan Nouri ◽  
Sina Valiee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Barriers And Facilitators ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Analysis Study ◽  
The People ◽  
Data Saturation ◽  
Conventional Content Analysis ◽  
Prevention Guidelines

Background: Despite the recommendations to follow guidelines for the prevention of COVID-19, different communities do not completely adhere to these guidelines. The aim of this study was to explore the barriers and facilitators of the adherence of the people of Sanandaj to the COVID-19 prevention guidelines. Materials & Methods: The present study was a qualitative content analysis study conducted in 2020. A purposive sampling method among the residents of Sanandaj, Iran was applied and continued until data saturation was achieved. Twenty semi-structured interviews were conducted with the participants. A verbatim transcription of interviews was analyzed through qualitative conventional content analysis. Results: Participants included 12 men and 8 women. Data analysis yielded 8 categories and 26 sub-categories regarding the barriers and facilitators of the participants’ adherence to the COVID-19 prevention guidelines. The barriers included myths, being under pressure, and letting and facilitators included awareness, fear, commitment, unity against the disease, and warnings. Conclusion: According to the findings, it is necessary to correct people’s beliefs, support them, and continue to make them informed about the disease. Increasing awareness and commitment, strengthening the spirit of unity among people, and increasing the level of warnings can be effective in increasing adherence of people to the COVID-19 prevention guidelines.

scholarly journals Explaining the Factors Affecting the Success of the Nursing Students in OSCE Exam: A Qualitative Content Analysis Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 185-198
Author(s):  
M Kohansal ◽  
Z Hosseini ◽  
M Shamshiri ◽  
M Ajri-Khameslou ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Analysis Study

A content analysis of college students’ gaps in knowledge about sexually transmitted infections

2020 ◽  
pp. 001789692095909
Author(s):  
Alyssa M Lederer ◽  
Brittney S Sheena
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Sexually Transmitted Infections ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Health Consequences ◽  
Survey Question ◽  
Sexually Transmitted

Objective: Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) disproportionately affect young people and can result in severe health consequences. Accurate knowledge about STIs can play an important role in STI prevention. Prior quantitative research has found that college students’ knowledge about STIs is insufficient. However, there is a dearth of information regarding their specific STI knowledge deficiencies. This study sought to fill this gap by using a qualitative approach to elucidate gaps in students’ STI knowledge. Design: Qualitative content analysis of responses to an open-ended online survey question. Setting: A large public Midwestern university in the USA. Method: Students ( N = 289) watched a web-based STI health education programme covering basic information about Chlamydia, gonorrhoea, human papillomavirus (HPV), herpes and syphilis as a course requirement. Afterwards they answered an open-ended question about what information, if any, was new to them. Themes and sub-themes were identified, exemplar quotes were selected for illustrative purposes, and frequencies were calculated. Results: Ten overarching themes were identified about what students learned: everything/a lot (19.7%), prevention (16.6%), treatment/cures (15.6%), prevalence/statistics (14.9%), nothing/not much (14.2%), symptomatology (12.8%), everything about a specific STI (9.7%), health consequences (6.6%), transmission (5.5%) and testing (2.4%). Participants reported learning about HPV most frequently compared to other STIs. Conclusion: Findings demonstrate critical gaps in college students’ STI knowledge and provide a deeper understanding of specific knowledge deficiencies. Study findings highlight important sexual health content that should be integrated into health education initiatives in academic, community and other settings, and provides recommendations on how to do so.

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