scholarly journals The Role of Occupational Therapy for Homeless Women and Women At-Risk of Homelessness

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Kelcey Storkersen
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Occupational Therapy ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Homeless Women ◽  
Qualitative Research Study ◽  
Resource Center ◽  
Occupational Therapy Students

This paper seeks to identify the occupational barriers and needs of homeless women and women at risk of homelessness. A qualitative research study was performed to learn more about the lived experience of two women at-risk of homelessness. Themes uncovered in this study are described in order to provide more understanding and advocacy for this population. A program proposal was delivered for future fieldwork students to provide occupational therapy students at this resource center.

Moving to Trust Status: The Experiences of Staff of Occupational Therapy Departments

1997 ◽  
Vol 60 (7) ◽  
pp. 309-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter Lloyd-Smith
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Occupational Therapy ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Community Care ◽  
Staff Attitudes ◽  
Qualitative Research Study ◽  
Departmental Leadership ◽  
Health And Social Care

There has been much discussion of the NHS and Community Care Act 1990 and the changes it has brought to the delivery of health and social care. The introduction of self-governing trust status for hospitals as part of an internal market for the NHS has played a significant role both in the lives of occupational therapy staff and in the services that they provide. This article describes a qualitative research study into how occupational therapy staff (n=15) from both a trust and a non-trust unit have perceived and experienced these developments. The findings are considered under four key themes: the need to justify and market the role of occupational therapy; how trust status has affected staffs roles and relationships; how staff understood trust status to have affected the departmental identity, and concepts of leadership, power and autonomy; and in what ways trust status has shaped staff attitudes and opinions. The findings highlight the important role played by departmental leadership during moves to trust status and the interest now shown in measures of outcome to demonstrate the effectiveness of interventions. A range of perspectives on trust status is then discussed.

scholarly journals CPEC and Energy Rejuvenation: A Road to Improvement

2019 ◽  
pp. 154-170
Author(s):  
Fauzia Mubarik ◽  
Javeria Shabbir
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Wind Power ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Energy Crisis ◽  
Electricity Distribution ◽  
Special Economic Zones ◽  
Sales Revenue ◽  
Qualitative Research Study ◽  
Economic Zones

This qualitative research study aims to investigate the role played by the established special economic zones under the program of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor to improve and upgrade the energy sector in Pakistan. The key role of China under the Joined Cooperation Committee formed in 2013 has paved ways for Pakistan to bring profound stability in the energy crisis being faced by Pakistan which is also evident from its most recent investment of 33.45 billion Rupees under the CPEC mega energy project respectively. The availability of approximately 10,000 megawatts electricity to the National Grid of Pakistan in the year 2018 is near to its accomplishment phase. However, this accomplishment poses itself many challenges that may halter the smooth reviving of the energy and power crisis. The challenge of bridging the gap between the purchase prices of the electricity distribution companies (DISCOS) and the sales revenue generated as well as the inclusion of more hydropower projects because of them being less expensive than the wind power projects respectively.

scholarly journals Forced marriage as a lived experience: Victims’ voices

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 344-367
Author(s):  
Carolina Villacampa
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Racial Stereotypes ◽  
Effective Strategy ◽  
Forced Marriage ◽  
Qualitative Research Study

The official response to forced marriage in the majority of European countries has been to criminalise the practice. Based on racial stereotypes and outdated Orientalist perspectives, this overlooks the prior need for appropriate empirical analysis in order to better understand the reality of the practice being regulated, and fails to provide victims with the means of protection they need beyond the framework of criminal law. Devising a suitable and effective strategy to address this form of victimisation instead requires an in-depth understanding of the effects that victims of these practices endure, and of what the victims themselves would consider best practice in terms of assistance and protection. In view of these primary objectives, after the existence of forced marriages in Spain had been demonstrated by the corresponding quantitative research, a qualitative research study followed, which was conducted through interviews with victims of forced marriage. The results are presented here. The secondary aim of the study was to draw up the basic guidelines for an integrated programme of action to address this process of victimisation.

Clinical Reasoning in Community Occupational Therapy

1996 ◽  
Vol 59 (5) ◽  
pp. 196-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heli Munroe
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Occupational Therapy ◽  
Clinical Reasoning ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Occupational Therapists ◽  
Contextual Influences ◽  
Qualitative Research Study ◽  
Clinical Action ◽  
Reflection In Action

A qualitative research study was undertaken in order to ascertain the scope and nature of clinical reasoning in community occupational therapy. Thirty occupational therapists based in social work departments in Scotland participated in this study, which required them to describe the content and meaning of their thinking during routine interventions with clients and carers living in their own homes. The findings indicated that the participants adopted patterns of reasoning that consisted of three elements: reflection, decision making and reasoning. Reflection-in-action was commonplace during the home visits, while decision making was found to be concerned more with interactive than with technical or procedural issues. Reasoning was relativistic or pragmatic in response to contextual influences. In addition, it was found that the respondents tended to use coded meaning when explaining their thinking, which may in part account for the difficulties in articulating the reasoning that underpins clinical action. These issues are discussed in the context of current research on thinking.

scholarly journals A Journey into the Lived Experience: A Review of Janet Salmon's Qualitative Online Interviews Strategies, Design, and Skills

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fatima Cotton
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Online Research ◽  
Information And Communications Technologies ◽  
Research Framework ◽  
Qualitative Research Study ◽  
Communications Technologies ◽  
Research Interviews

In Janet Salmons Qualitative Online Interviews (2014) she provides researchers with the tools to be innovative in their research interviews. Researchers will have the skills to conduct a qualitative research study using technology. For the purpose of this book she changes the term online research to information and communications technologies (ICTs). Salmons’ uses an EInterview Research Framework, which includes eight categories of questions and designs.

scholarly journals The Five-Question Method For Framing A Qualitative Research Study

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark McCaslin ◽  
Karen Scott
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Future Perspective ◽  
Problem Statement ◽  
Qualitative Research Study ◽  
Qualitative Research Design

The Five-Question Method is an approach to framing Qualitative Research, focusing on the methodologies of five of the major traditions in qualitative research: biography, ethnography, phenomenology, grounded theory, and case study. Asking Five Questions, novice researchers select a methodology appropriate to the desired perspective on the selected topic. The Method facilitates identifying and writing a Problem Statement. Through taking a future perspective, the researcher discovers the importance and direction of the study and composes a Purpose Statement. The process develops an overarching research question integrating the purpose and the research problem. The role of the researcher and management of assumptions and biases is discussed. The Five-Question Method simplifies the framing process promoting quality in qualitative research design. A course outline is appended.

Support in Kith and Kin Care: The Experience of Carers

2011 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 88-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cas O'Neill
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Kinship Care ◽  
Support Needs ◽  
Qualitative Research Study ◽  
Home Based ◽  
Significant Harm ◽  
Home Based Care

As a home-based care option for children at risk of significant harm, kinship care placements are steadily increasing in Australia as they are in other western countries. This article describes a qualitative research study undertaken with 65 kin (relative) and kith (nonrelative) carers in Victoria in the years 2004–2007. The aims of the research were to explore the lived experience of carers and to understand their support needs. The findings distinguish similarities and differences between the experience of formal and informal grandparent carers, non-grandparent relative carers and nonrelative carers. The article discusses the role of caregiving for the different groups, family relationships, finances (having enough money, as well as having too little), relationships with government agencies, respite and peer support.

scholarly journals The role of self-management in burns aftercare: a qualitative research study

Burns ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 825-834 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Litchfield ◽  
Laura L. Jones ◽  
Naiem Moiemen ◽  
Nicole Andrews ◽  
Sheila Greenfield ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Qualitative Research Study

scholarly journals Collaborative Poetic Processes: Methodological Reflections on Co-Writing with Participants

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Manning
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Qualitative Research Study ◽  
Poetic Inquiry ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences

This article illustrates how the author engaged in a collaborative poetry-making process with two participants, Margaret and Mary, in this feminist qualitative research study exploring women’s experiences of displacement, as loss of sense of place, in Newfoundland, Canada. The author evaluates some of the key successes of this type of process, including credible representation of participants’ experiences and reciprocity in the research process, as well as some of the methodological and philosophical tensions surrounding co-writing with participants that emerged during the poetry process. This article will be of particular interest to researchers and students who are looking for ways to collaborate with participants in crafting poems about their lived experience in poetic inquiry work.

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