Using Q method to explore perspectives of food insecurity among people living with HIV/AIDS / Micah Hartwell, Julie Croff, Diane Montgomery.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hartwell, Micah, author.

Croff, Julie, author.

Montgomery, Diane, author.

Series:

SAGE Research Methods. Cases. Part 2.

SAGE Research Methods. Cases. Part 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food security--Research--Case studies.

Food security.

HIV-positive persons--Research--Case studies.

HIV-positive persons.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

London : SAGE Publications Ltd, 2017.

Summary:

Although qualitative studies can illustrate individuals trials and struggles to obtain a daily meal or develop a stable and safe food supply and quantitative studies may be able to deduce specific macro- or micro-nutrient deficiencies or count the number of meals skipped, neither are able to capture the subjectivity of the concourse of food insecurity as seen by those experiencing it. In 2016, after spending most of the past decade providing food assistance to low-income people living with HIV, I had the opportunity to conduct a study to examine, for the first time, how they viewed their food situation, from an analytical perspective.This case illustrates researcher perspectives of employing Q methodology. This method is used as a means of merging the respective strengths of qualitative and quantitative data through abducting systematic findings of food insecurity among people living with HIV. A purposive sampling approach was used to identify participants representing differing opinions or viewpoints. The sampling and methodology taken together allowed for construction and interpretation of stable factors of subjective behaviors and opinions. From these factor arrays, distinguishing viewpoints and statements of consensus provide unique interpretation of the data, providing by-person findings of holistic viewpoints. Q methodology is active research of subjectivity or a persons current position in relation to the research topic of interestsubject to both context and time. This case will explore my experience of conducting a Q study and its value in psychological, educational, and repeated-measures studies where varying opinions exist or vary due to external influence.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781526403179 (ebook) :

9781526403179

OCLC:

972613756