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any tips/ hints about familiarity in health related social research? >From: Alan Simpson <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: qual-software <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: Diaries as data collection tool >Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 12:59:04 +0000 > >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. > >_________________________________________________________________ >Txt a lot? Get Messenger FREE on your mobile. >https://livemessenger.mobile.uk.msn.com/ _________________________________________________________________ Play your part in making history - Email Britain! http://www.emailbritain.co.uk/