A serial qualitative interview study of infant feeding experiences: idealism meets realism

A serial qualitative interview study of infant feeding experiences: idealism meets realism

OBJECTIVE To investigate the infant feeding experiences of women and their significant others from pregnancy until 6 months after birth to establish what would make a difference. DESIGN Qualitative serial interview study. SETTING Two health boards in Scotland. PARTICIPANTS 72 of 541 invited pregnant women volunteered. 220 interviews approximately every 4 weeks with 36 women, 26 partners, ...

Significant others, situations and infant feeding behaviour change processes: a serial qualitative interview study

BACKGROUND Exclusive breastfeeding until six months followed by the introduction of solids and continued breastfeeding is recommended by the World Health Organisation. The dominant approach to achieving this has been to educate and support women to start and continue breastfeeding rather than understanding behaviour change processes from a broader perspective. METHOD Serial qualitative interv...

Internal Realism: Transcendental Idealism?

Patients’ experiences of sleep in hospital: a qualitative interview study

Many patients experience sleep disturbances and a reduced quality of sleep while hospitalised. Studies have shown that a person with a disease and/or a bodily injury has an increased need for sleep. Patients’ experiences of sleep should govern how sleep disturbances should be managed. It is thus necessary to focus upon and describe patients’ needs and experiences. The aim of this study was to e...

Organizational Realism Meets Information Quality Idealism: The Challenges of Keeping an Information Quality Initiative Going

While many seem to understand, in theory, the value of high-quality information, the realities of daily organizational dynamics may cause information quality projects to falter. In our conference paper last year, we described how Ingenix moved from ‘theory’ to an established Information Quality initiative, and how it laid the groundwork for its first and future information quality improvement p...