Interpretive phenomenological analysis applied to healthcare research

Phenomenological nursing research: methodological insights derived from Heidegger's interpretive phenomenology.

The phenomenological approach is increasingly being utilised as the method structure for nursing research studies. However, the nursing literature is beginning to reflect a concern with nurse researchers' adoption of phenomenological methods without, at the same time, laying the philosophical and methodological foundations on which the method is built. It is important for nursing knowledge deve...

Operational Research applied to Regional Healthcare System

Coeliac Disease in Later Life: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis

Coeliac Disease (CD) is a chronic autoimmune condition characterized by heightened immunological response to the digestion of gluten in genetically susceptible individuals. Previous research suggests that being diagnosed with a chronic health condition may present psychosocial challenges. We aimed to investigate the lived experience related to a diagnosis of CD later in life, and to better unde...

Using research to inform healthcare managers' and policy makers' questions: from summative to interpretive synthesis.

This paper highlights the importance of research synthesis for healthcare managers' and policy makers' questions and the difficulty of generalizing from the methods used to answer clinicians' questions. Social science research has a central role in such syntheses because of the context-dependent nature of managers' and policy makers' questions, which generally encompass a far broader spectrum t...

How do individuals with persecutory delusions bring worry to a close? An interpretive phenomenological analysis.

BACKGROUND Worry is a significant problem for individuals with paranoia, leading to delusion persistence and greater levels of distress. There are established theories concerning processes that maintain worry but little has been documented regarding what brings worry to a close. AIMS The aim was to find out what patients with persecutory delusions report are the factors that bring a worry epi...