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Hi Becky,

 

I’m quite a novice with all this but being fresh to it I thought I my perspective might be useful. I don’t use if then statements because I found them a little too simple to give a useful description to build on.  But when initially building CMOCs I use very, very plain English, and worry about how pithy it all sounds later. I also use first person statements from the perspective of the person in the intervention.

 

So the initial statement I produce is just a long-winded explanation of what I see from the data, including context, mechanisms and outcomes, but not identified as such. So, for example, an early CMOC I developed for doctor remediation programmes around the role of identity looked something like:

 

If a doctor feels like they are part of a community of practice, they start to associate with the values of that community of practice, and may want to behave accordingly (I am a doctor and I want to act like a doctor and be recognised as being a doctor).  If they then realise that their behaviour is out of sync with that community of practice because the intervention has highlighted the difference between their actions and the standards associated with the community of practice (I can see that I have acted in way that is not how a doctor should act)¸ then they might change their practice to accord with the values of the community (I want to change my behaviour so that it fits with my identity as a doctor), and as a result of this they accept the need to change their.

 

Later on, using some reading on reference group theory, I ended up describing the mechanism as “normative enticement”, to describe the pull of wanting to belong to a community of practice. There were also related CMOCs that came of this related to a mechanism of dissonance.

 

My point is that in the early stages of developing a programme theory, I have personally found it really useful to describe in  paragraph what I am seeing in the data from a realist perspective (that interventions change contexts and contexts make things happen which then and produces outcomes) without getting caught up on which bit is which, and without worrying about how it all sounds. And they can say in that simple form for as long as I needed.

 

 

Best wishes,

 

Tristan

 

 

Dr Tristan Price

 

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Hi Becky 

 

I’m sure more of the realist heavyweights will pitch in with a much better insight but ...

 

For what it’s worth from me I do like using if then and because statements but for me there is danger that they don’t consider context. I’m sure when we write them that we do have context in mind but making it explicit is important. 

 

Recently I have been playing around with this with my students ... 

 

I’ve used the iceberg (which Justin uses a lot) or a tree to show the picture of reality.. higher up the iceberg (what we can see) I write “if we do this (in this set of circumstances/ environment (taking into consideration Ray’s layers of context) then this will happen ...

 

I then go further down the iceberg beneath the surface to articulate the because elements which may be resource and reasoning elements. Some of these mechanisms are more visible than others and some hidden perhaps and that’s where you can make the colour more murky. 

 

I’ve been trying to do this with my students and practitioners I work with in the field because the CMMO can be quite challenging to use and make sense of. It’s merely experimenting at the moment so may get shot down which I don’t mind and there may well be someone out there who is already doing this ( apologies if I’ve missed something ). 

 

 

 

Kind Regards

 

Dr Kevin Harris SFHEA

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Dear RAMESESIANS, 

 

I’ve been thinking about how useful (or not) writing out If Then propositions is when building initial program theory, and I’m keen to hear what others think and do. 

 

And also, do you know of any projects (and papers) which used If/Then statements which I could read? 

Thanks in advance, 

Becky 

 

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