scholarly journals Accessing Young Children’s Ideas about Energy

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
Franziska Detken ◽  
Maja Brückmann
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Level Of Detail ◽  
Data Generation ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Video Recordings ◽  
Energy Concept ◽  
Rich Data ◽  
Prior Experiences ◽  
Picture Stories

We present a multi-method design for elucidating young, mostly illiterate children’s (grades 1 and 2 of Swiss elementary school, ages 6–8) ideas about energy. The design uses semi-structured interviews and video recordings as the main methods of data generation and collection, respectively. A plurality of tasks, including drawing, sorting and a newly developed picture stories task, target core aspects of the scientific energy concept in selected contexts. These tasks provide various opportunities for the children to connect to their prior experiences and express ideas verbally and non-verbally in age-adequate ways, e.g., by gestures or drawings. We illustrate the level of detail and complexity of the children’s responses and show how these reflect the children’s associations with energy and their patterns of argumentation. These rich data enable analysis regarding various aspects of the scientific energy concept, including sources, users, forms, and the transfer of energy, and the identification of possible starting points for early energy instruction.

scholarly journals Co-Produced Care in Veterinary Services: A Qualitative Study of UK Stakeholders’ Perspectives

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 149
Author(s):  
Alison Z. Pyatt ◽  
Keith Walley ◽  
Gillian H. Wright ◽  
Emma C. L. Bleach
Keyword(s):  
Service Provision ◽  
Animal Health ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Veterinary Services ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Health Service Provision ◽  
Services Sector ◽  
Health Practitioners ◽  
Prior Experiences

Changes in client behaviour and expectations, and a dynamic business landscape, amplify the already complex nature of veterinary and animal health service provision. Drawing on prior experiences, veterinary clients increasingly pursue enhanced involvement in services and have expectations of relationship-centred care. Co-production as a conceptualisation of reciprocity in service provision is a fundamental offering in the services sector, including human medicine, yet the role of co-production in veterinary services has been minimally explored. Utilising a service satisfaction framework, semi-structured interviews (n = 13) were completed with three veterinary stakeholder groups, veterinarians, allied animal health practitioners, and veterinary clients. Interview transcript data were subject to the qualitative data analysis techniques, thematic analysis and grounded theory, to explore relationship-centred care and subsequently conceptualise co-production service for the sector. Six latent dimensions of service were emergent, defined as: empathy, bespoke care, professional integrity, value for money, confident relationships, and accessibility. The dimensions strongly advocate wider sector adoption of a co-produced service, and a contextualised co-production framework is presented. Pragmatic challenges associated with integration of active veterinary clients in a practitioner–client partnership are evident. However, adopting a people-centric approach to veterinary services and partnerships with clients can confer the advantages of improved client satisfaction, enhanced treatment adherence and outcomes, and business sustainability.

scholarly journals Using Visual Timelines in Telephone Interviews: Reflections and Lessons Learned From the Star Family Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 160940692091367
Author(s):  
Bethan Pell ◽  
Denitza Williams ◽  
Rhiannon Phillips ◽  
Julia Sanders ◽  
Adrian Edwards ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Family Study ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Visual Methods ◽  
Generation Process ◽  
Data Generation ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Telephone Interviews ◽  
Autoimmune Rheumatic Disease ◽  
Rich Data ◽  
Disease Study

Visual timeline methods have been used as part of face-to-face qualitative interviewing with vulnerable populations to uncover the intricacies of lived experiences, but little is known about whether visual timelines can be effectively used in telephone interviews. In this article, we reflect on the process of using visual timelines in 16 telephone interviews with women as part of the “STarting a family when you have an Autoimmune Rheumatic disease” study (STAR Family Study). The visual timeline method was used to empower women to organize and share their narratives about the sensitive and complex topic of starting a family. We conducted a thematic analysis of the audio-recorded interview data, using researchers’ field notes and reflections to provide context for our understanding of the benefits of using timelines and to understand the process of using visual timelines during telephone interviews. Resource packs were sent to women before study participation; 11 of the 16 women completed a version of the timeline activity. Six themes were identified in the methodological data analysis: (1) use and adaptation of the timeline tool, (2) timeline exchange, (3) framing the interview: emphasizing that women are in control, (4) jumping straight in, (5) taking a lead, and (6) disclosing personal and sensitive experiences. The use of visual timelines facilitated interviewee control and elicited rich narratives of participants’ experiences in telephone interviews. Women created their visual timelines autonomously and retained ownership of their timeline data; these features of the data generation process need to be considered when using visual timelines in telephone rather than face-to-face interviews. Use of visual methods within telephone interviews is feasible, can generate rich data, and should be further explored in a wider range of settings.

Critical Incidents in the Development of Supportive Principals: Facilitating School Counselor-Principal Relationships

2007 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 2156759X0701000
Author(s):  
Colette T. Dollarhide ◽  
Alexanderia T. Smith ◽  
Matthew E. Lemberger
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
School Counseling ◽  
School Counselors ◽  
School Counselor ◽  
Critical Incidents ◽  
Effective Leadership ◽  
Counseling Program ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
School Counseling Program ◽  
Prior Experiences

The qualitative study in this article explores critical incidents that may facilitate the support a principal provides for a school counseling program. Through structured interviews, supportive principals are asked to reflect on their prior experiences with school counselors, their educational exposure to school counseling, and their recommendations for school counselors. Results suggest that by demonstrating effective leadership and systemic interactions, school counselors can foster relationships with principals that can help them expand their roles and their programs.

scholarly journals A Digital Innovation for the Personalized Management of Adherence: Analysis of Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna-Elisa Hein ◽  
Bernard Vrijens ◽  
Mickael Hiligsmann
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Personalized Medicine ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Medication Management ◽  
Data Generation ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Personalized Management

Introduction: Personalized medicine and management of adherence are potential solutions for the suboptimal use of medicines. Digital medication management innovations currently under development combine both aspects. This research aims to investigate facilitators for and barriers to the translation of digital innovations for personalized medicine and adherence management into clinical practice from the policymaker and regulator perspective.Methods: A mixed-method study was used combining a scoping review to identify main interests, semi-structured interviews (n = 5) with representatives of European health policymaking and regulatory organizations, and a supplementary literature review to investigate key subthemes. The SWOT analysis was used for the qualitative analysis.Results: The literature reviews and the qualitative interviews suggested that digital solutions can facilitate the personalized management of medications and improve quality and safety, especially as the openness for digital health solutions is increasing. Digital solutions may, on the other hand, add complexity to the treatment, which can be perceived as a potential barrier for their uptake. As more multidisciplinary and participative structures are emerging, digital solutions can promote the implementation of new services. Nevertheless, change progresses slowly in the task-oriented structures of health systems. Integration of digital solutions depends on all stakeholders' willingness and abilities to co-create this change. Patients have different capabilities to self-manage their medical conditions and use digital solutions. Personalization of digital health solutions and integration in existing service structures are crucial to ensure equality among population segments. Developments in the digital infrastructure, although they are partly slow and not well-aligned, enable the implementation of innovations in clinical practice leading to further advances in data generation and usage for future innovations.Discussion: This study suggests that digital solutions have the potential to facilitate high-quality medication management and improve adherence to medications, enable new service structures, and are essential to drive further innovations in health care. Nevertheless, increasing the self-responsibility of patients can have undesirable effects on health outcomes, especially within vulnerable population segments. Digital health solutions can be an opportunity to optimize the use of medicines and thus their efficiency. Well-conceived development and implementation processes are needed to also realize improvements in equality and solidarity within health systems.

scholarly journals Want to Interview a Politician? Ways to Prepare for Digital Vetting by Political Staffers

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 696-700
Author(s):  
Anna Lennox Esselment ◽  
Alex Marland
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Reputation Management ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
Risk Averse ◽  
Communications Technology ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Rich Data ◽  
Online Reputation

ABSTRACTThis article outlines how the advent of digital-communications technology, particularly social media, has contributed to an increased wariness by political elites to grant interviews to researchers. Errant remarks, misquotes, and comments taken out of context can exact a heavy price. Thus, politicians and their gatekeepers are far more cautious and risk averse than in decades past, which puts qualitative research methods—and the rich data they produce—in peril. Insights drawn from 32 qualitative, semi-structured interviews with social scientists, political journalists, and political staffers in six countries revealed that academics who submit interview requests should expect to be subjected to online scrutiny—a vetting—by gatekeepers before any access is granted. Digital screening aims to assess the authenticity and objectivity of the researcher. Our findings suggest that scholars who want to pursue qualitative research with politicians must practice online reputation management and perhaps even delve into personal marketing.

scholarly journals Adolescents’ participation in their healthcare: A sociomaterial investigation of a diabetes app

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 205520761984544 ◽  
Author(s):  
Loni Ledderer ◽  
Anne Møller ◽  
Antoinette Fage-Butler
Keyword(s):  
Blood Glucose ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Clinical Situation ◽  
Data Generation ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Health Technologies ◽  
App Development ◽  
Group Interviews

Objective This article explores how a diabetes app called Diapplo affected adolescents’ participation in their healthcare by investigating adolescents’ meaning-making in relation to their use of the app. Methods Using a qualitative single case-study design, we adopted a multimethod responsive approach to data generation that included written data from the app development process, individual and group interviews and observations of the adolescents in the clinical situation. This article presents the results from a qualitative content analysis of group and individual semi-structured interviews conducted with five adolescents diagnosed with type 1 diabetes during and after the four-week test phase of a prototype of the app. Results The adolescents appreciated the diabetes app’s design and interface and having an overview of their blood glucose values. However, they stated that the app’s content only partly met their needs and they considered several of its features unnecessary. They would have liked the app to have a social platform and emphasized that the app should be compatible with their blood glucose monitors and pumps for them to continue using it. Conclusions The participants in our study highlighted the value of social platforms integrated in health apps for patient participation, as well as their preference for health app features that reduced the effort of managing their chronic condition and facilitate greater knowledge. Theories of sociomateriality and material participation helped to account for the challenges of integrating users’ perspectives, suggesting the value of early, comprehensive identification and prioritization of users’ values when developing mobile health technologies.

The Impact of Teacher Education on In-service English Teachers’ Beliefs about Self

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 519 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ziwei Xiong
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Belief Change ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
Teacher Belief ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
High School English ◽  
Teachers Beliefs ◽  
Rich Data ◽  
The Impact

This was a qualitative study carried out in the context of 2013 National Teacher Training Program for Junior High School English Teachers in Chongqing China, intending to reveal the impact of the program on four in-service English teachers’ beliefs about self (i. e., about English teachers). Rich data were collected throughout the process of training which lasted for 100 days, including semi-structured interviews, teachers’ class analysis reports, professional development plans, periodic summaries and so on. The findings were interpreted with the help of the classification framework of teacher belief change proposed by Cabaroglu and Roberts, which showed that the impact of the program on these four in-service English teachers’ beliefs about English teachers’ roles, excellent English teachers and English teachers’ professional development was considerable, however, the degree, the nature and the sources of the impact varied across individual teachers.

Lived Experience of Friendship and Mate Crime in Autistic Adults

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Pearson ◽  
Samantha Forster
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Hate Crime ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Specific Subset ◽  
Social Difficulties ◽  
Autistic Adults ◽  
Prior Experiences

Mate crime is a specific subset of hate crime in which the perpetrator is known to the victim. To date, there is very little research into the perception and experience of mate crime in autism. The aim of the current study was to examine perceptions of friendship and mate crime in autistic adults, using semi-structured interviews. Five adults were interviewed about their experiences of social interactions, friendships and mate crime. Participants described distancing themselves from the ‘disability’ label whilst growing up to avoid condescension and being perceived as vulnerable, whilst learning to camouflage their social difficulties. Feelings of anxiety were associated with socialising, and participants valued relationships that did not place too many overwhelming demands on their time or energy. Finally, all participants had prior experiences of bullying. They understood the concept of mate crime but were unsure as to whether they would be able to identify it in their own lives if it occurred. However they could identify potential support networks in close friends and family. Results highlight the importance of further research into positive and negative aspects of social relationships in autistic adults, and the need to provide support to those who are socially vulnerable.

Evaluating sexual function in adolescent and young adult childhood cancer survivors.

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. e24180-e24180
Author(s):  
Jenna Sopfe ◽  
Rebekah Marsh ◽  
Leslie C. Appiah ◽  
James L. Klosky ◽  
Pamela N Peterson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Cancer Survivors ◽  
Childhood Cancer ◽  
Screening Tool ◽  
Childhood Cancer Survivors ◽  
Adolescent And Young Adult ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Written Information ◽  
Promising Tool ◽  
Prior Experiences

e24180 Background: Up to half of adolescent and young adult (AYA) childhood cancer survivors (CCS) experience sexual dysfunction (SD) as a result cancer or its treatment. SD in CCS is under-recognized, with low levels of routine screening due to barriers such as discomfort, time, and awareness. This study explores solutions to these barriers by describing AYA CCS preferences for implementation of screening for SD and evaluating the utility of a validated adult screening tool (PROMIS SexFS Brief) in this population. Methods: 16 AYA CCS (aged 15-24 years) completed semi-structured interviews followed by questionnaire completion. Interviews explored patients’ prior experiences with SD screening, along with preferences for screening type (e.g., discussion, screening tool), delivery modality, and timing. Patients then completed the PROMIS SexFS Brief while verbalizing their thoughts and providing open-ended responses to each item. Transcribed interviews were inductively coded and analyzed, guided by content analysis methodology. Results: This analysis represents 2/3 of planned interviews, and all will be completed by April 1, 2020. Interviews were performed with 11 females and 5 males (median age 21). Preliminary analysis demonstrates that participants had minimal experience with SD conversations, but had preferences regarding by whom, how, and when screening/education should occur. Who: Participants felt providers should have preexisting rapport with their patients; preferences existed for provider role and sex/age. How: A combination of written materials and in-person conversations was preferred. Several acknowledged a desire to have a “warning” that the conversation would happen, such as through a questionnaire. Participants did not have a preference regarding delivery modality (paper vs. online). The PROMIS SexFS Brief appeared to demonstrate content validity and acceptability in AYA CCS. When: Participants wanted education and screening to occur regularly throughout cancer therapy and survivorship. SD conversations should be tailored developmentally to the patient. Conclusions: Our results demonstrate a theme throughout interviews of the importance of patient/provider rapport. Further, while AYA CCS prefer in-person conversations about SD, conversations should be preceded by written information or a questionnaire to increase patient preparedness/comfort. Preliminary findings suggest that the PROMIS SexFS Brief is a promising tool for screening SD in this population; further studies evaluating use in clinical settings is warranted.

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