30 Jul DESCRIBE HOW THE FOCUS GROUP OR INTERVIEWS WERE PERFORMED
2QUALIVATIVE MANUSTRICPT LECTURE – 04/03/15
Title Page – APA style
Abstracts
– Concise summary 200-400 words (depending on journals, for this class anything between)
– Separate headings (depending on journals) – for this class use APA style
– Have some data in the abstract with demographics, type of data, methods, and results – primary findings, and conclusion (what we found/need) – (include percentage and frequencies)
Introduction
– Background information
– History
– Lit review (not only findings of what we want – key studies on what we are looking for and other types)
o Paragraph 1 – broad public health reasons (what are we doing the study and what do we care), big broad WHY? [make it interesting and convincing of why it is important – make it persuasive]
o Paragraph 2 to 4 – theory description (in a broad way and specific to the study). Bring from a lit review perspective how are we linking the theory and topic of the research
Combo of general information and specific findings that integrates or show support for the theory you choose
o Last paragraph is to talk about the aim and the gap – not only the gap in the literature or science but in general why this study is important
– Typical intro is 2-3 pages double space, 12 pint font
Methods
– BEFORE the methods – Describe the process of developing questions
– How you did the study (in order to replicate)
o Paragraph 1 – Participants, recruitment methods, eligibility criteria (or ineligibility)
– IRB
– Don’t talk about the demographics of the participants (those are your results!)
– Don’t talk in first person!
o Paragraph 2 – Describe how the focus group or interviews were performed (sometimes it can be included in the first paragraph, just make sure it makes sense)
– Talk about qualitative methods used:
o FG/individual interview – time, number of people, sometimes the questions used
o Face to face or phone
o Who collected the data (trained grad students, assistants, etc)
o How was your data collected
o Incentive
o How was recorded/writing notes
o The implementation of the data?
– We can talk BEFORE OR AFTER methods used about the CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
o Based on the lit review why we chose this framework
– After those three sections – talk about the coding (structure), the consensus between researchers, codebook (codebook = table and hierarchy = figure) – reliability, consensus, or percent agreement. – if two researchers coded at the same time together: can replace the percent agreement
– A table or figure with some questions examples
– What software was used
Results
– Paragraph 1:
o demographics on the sample (summarize key points on the text and add a table)
o sample size
– paragraph 2:
o get creative, the best way to lay out the findings
o use sub-headings: be thoughtful on how we are describing the data (we can use bar graphs but add them in the end not within this section – ex: See table 3.1 and add it at the end of the paper)
o barriers
o explain just the findings – not an opinion and do not try to explain them – we can use some quotes from the findings
o most interesting findings first and then the rest (not so interesting)
Discussion
– paragraph 1:
o overview of the study
o describe BRIEFLY key findings (5-6 sentences)
– paragraph 2-4:
o Explain the findings – comparing and contrast with other studies and papers
o Compare each key finding with other studies!
o Use other new literature in this sections not only used the same as in the intro
– Paragraph 3 –
o Study limitations (in methodology, recruitment, etc) if you can try to paint it in the best light and explain why some limitations ( make it look good)
Conclusions
(summary of the study and why it is important for public health, go back to a broad aspect in public health again)
o Implications for other studies or interventions. Helps generate new theories.
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