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Family Response To A Child's Chronic Illness: A Description Of Major Defining Themes, K. Knafl, A. Gallo, B. Breitmayer, L. Zoeller, Lioness Ayres
Family Response To A Child's Chronic Illness: A Description Of Major Defining Themes, K. Knafl, A. Gallo, B. Breitmayer, L. Zoeller, Lioness Ayres
Lioness Ayres
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Learning From Stories: Parents' Accounts Of The Pathway To Diagnosis, K. Knafl, Lioness Ayres, A. Gallo, L. Zoeller, B. Brietmayer
Learning From Stories: Parents' Accounts Of The Pathway To Diagnosis, K. Knafl, Lioness Ayres, A. Gallo, L. Zoeller, B. Brietmayer
Lioness Ayres
Although the diagnosis of a child's chronic illness is typically a stressful time for parents, the events leading up to it vary considerably across families. As part of a larger study that addressed the experience of living with chronic illness, an analysis was undertaken to identify major themes in parental reports of the events preceding their child's diagnosis of chronic illness. Data are based on accounts given by parents in 63 families from three health science centers in the midwestern United States. Narrative analysis techniques were used to identify 5 major pathways to diagnosis (direct, delay, detour, quest, ordeal) and …
Within-Case And Across-Case Approaches To Qualitative Data Analysis, Lioness Ayres, K. Kavanaugh, K. Knafl
Within-Case And Across-Case Approaches To Qualitative Data Analysis, Lioness Ayres, K. Kavanaugh, K. Knafl
Lioness Ayres
The generalizations developed by qualitative researchers are embedded in the contextual richness of individual experience. Qualitative data management strategies that depend solely on coding and sorting of texts into units of like meaning can strip much of this contextual richness away. To prevent this, some authors have recommended treating individual accounts as whole cases or stories, but whole cases are difficult to compare with one another when the goal of the research is to develop generalizations that represent multiple accounts. In this article, the authors describe the ways in which three different qualitative researchers combined across-case coding and sorting with …