Hi Gail,
Andy Alaszewski has published a book and a paper on this subject:
Using diaries for social research / Andy Alaszewski.
London ; Thousand Oaks, CA : SAGE, c2006.
Diaries as a source of suffering narratives: A critical commentary
Alaszewski , A.M
Journal: Health, Risk and Society, 2006, 8, 1,pp: 43-58.
Best wishes,
Alan
>From: Gail Eva <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: qual-software <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Diaries as data collection tool
>Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 10:20:52 +0100
>
>Does anyone have any knowledge or experience of using patient
>(participant)-held diaries to collect data?
>
>I am working on a proposal for a study to evaluate a rehabilitation
>intervention in palliative care. Standard outcome measures are no use as
>this population of patients would not make the kind of improvement picked
>up
>by traditional rehabilitation measures.
>
>I want to collect data over a period of about 6 weeks, capturing relatively
>small changes over short periods of time - not looking for statistical
>significance (not at this stage, anyway) - this is more about the
>feasibility of delivering, and measuring, the intervention.
>
>I would envisage that entries would be a mixture of qualitative commentary,
>and a small number of tick-box type answers, and that the qualitative data
>could be entered into NVivo (which is the software I'm familiar with).
>
>Apologies for the vagueness of the question. If anyone could point me in
>the
>direction of useful papers/resources as a starting point, I'd be most
>grateful.
>
>Gail Eva
>Oxford, UK.
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