Hermeneutic mixed-methods research : inquiry into arts-based assessments in early psychosis / Hiba Zafran.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zafran, Hiba, author.

Series:

SAGE Research Methods Cases : Medicine and Health.

SAGE Research Methods Cases: Medicine and Health

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoses--Diagnosis--Case studies.

Psychoses.

Mixed methods research--Case studies.

Mixed methods research.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

London : SAGE Publications Ltd, 2020.

Summary:

Early psychosis intervention hinges on the accurate detection and prediction of incipient (future) schizophrenia. Qualitative longitudinal research in Europe concludes that subjective, experience-based approaches to detection are more successful in identifying incipient schizophrenia than biomedical approaches. In this case, I describe the development of a unique hermeneutics mixed-methods research design to explore and validate the utility and clinical reasoning of an arts-based evaluation tool (the Azima Battery) with individuals in early psychosis. Hermeneutics is a philosophical practice of interpretation that can be used to integrate the findings from multiple methods. In this case, I define, illustrate, and justify the development of a hermeneutic approach to mixing multiple methods, highlight challenges that I met at the level of data analysis, and propose strategies that helped me develop a rigorous final overarching synthesis in this mixed-methods study. Hermeneutic mixed methods was a useful approach to address my research aims of both predicting and understanding an arts-based assessment in health care that is intersubjective, involves clinical reasoning, and that also hinges on my experiences as a researcher who is both observing and participating in the phenomenon of interest.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-5297-4012-6

9781529740127

OCLC:

1151042860