I don't know a software program which would asses "richness" of narrative
reports. It seems to me that you, as researcher, probably need to define
some criteria for "richness" and then perhaps to make use of one of the
packages to keep track of your assessment.
I am beginning some research assessing sensitivity and responsiveness of
relatively inexperienced social workers & psychotherapists in their
interviews with clients and a written report on these sessions, hoping to
find change (improvement?) in their interviews over time. There is also
some similar work in which trainee psychiatrists were observed interviewing
patients (R. Smith, about 1980). Attention is paid to whether the
interviewer followed the client or whether the interviewer changed the
subject, whether the interviewer seemed to respond to the client's concerns
or minimized or ignored them. Also whether it seemed as if the client's
issues were being attended to rather than the interviewer only trying to
collect some predetermined set of information. This sort of thing. . . .
I would think criteria of this sort could be defined (how do you define
richness? how to measure it? what to look for?) and then use something
like Nu-Dist for coding, data manipulation, etc.
But, perhaps I am being totally naive?
Harriet Meek
on 8/8/02 10:08 AM, Jason M. Etchegaray at [log in to unmask]
wrote:
> Dear Qualitative List,
> If one wanted to assess the "richness" of narrative reports using a
> qualitative data analysis program, which program would you recommend? To
> provide some context, I am conducting a study where participants will be
> randomly assigned to one of two conditions and asked to provide a narrative
> report of an event that they have experienced. My research question concerns
> whether there are differences in the "richness" of reports depending on the
> condition to which the participants were assigned. Thank you in advance.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Jason
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