We present a framework to describe the process of conducting community-based qualitative research. Qualitative research activities are presented as a series of interrelated acts called asking, witnessing, interpreting, and knowing. Each act in the research process is described in terms of current qualitative research practices, and illustrated with examples from our own research projects on fam...

OBJECTIVES To explore significant experiences of adolescents as next of kin that the general practitioner (GP) should identify and recognize. DESIGN Qualitative study with focus-group interviews. SUBJECTS AND SETTING Three focus-group interviews were conducted with a total of 15 Norwegian adolescents each with an ill or substance-abusing parent. The participants were recruited from existing...

Over the past few years, the focus group method has assumed a very important role as a method for collecting qualitative data in social and behavioural science research. This article elucidates theoretical and practical problems and prospects associated with the use of focus groups as a qualitative research method in social and behavioural science research. The core uses of focus groups in soci...

This study compares leadership traits among leaders from Singaporean and Thai organizations. It also investigates leadership styles in different cultural settings with a focus on organizational change. Data was collected by means of a series of structured in-depth interviews with leaders from a Singaporean multi-national corporation in the retail sector and leaders from a public organization in...

The present study suggests that national culture will influence consumer attitude and behavior; however, research documenting differences in consumer culture in Taiwan and China is lacking. This study analyzes the hotel industry of Taiwan and China and explores the relationships between environmental attitudes, environmental responsive behavior and the willingness to stay at environmentally fri...

In Australia the tradition of conducting quantitative psychological research within a positivist framework has been challenged, with calls made for the inclusion of the full range of qualitative and quantitative methodologies within the undergraduate psychology curriculum. Despite this, the undergraduate psychology curriculum in most Australian universities retains a strong focus on teaching qu...

In ordinary qualitative reasoning(QR), qualitative behavior of the dynamical systems is predicted by assignment of qualitative values such as {+,0,—} into model variables based on proper transition rules. Unfortunately, due to ambiguities in these ordinarily introduced qualitative values,their arithmetic and transition rules cause predictions to be redundant,sometimes even inaccurate. In this p...

MARIAMPOLSKI's book successfully meets its stated promise of a comprehensive guide to qualitative market research. The author has taken a cookbook approach to the discipline and provides a considerable amount of forms and checklists to support that approach. The highlight of this book is its ability to provide a recipe for qualitative research methodology in market research. Because of the auth...

INTRODUCTION Medical decision-making in oncology is a complicated process and to date there are few studies examining how patients with cancer make choices with respect to different features of their care. It is also unknown whether patient choices vary by geographical location and how location could account for observed rural and metropolitan cancer differences. This paper describes an ongoing...

This study aimed to identify strategies caregiving professionals at shelters discuss and use in care delivery to violence situations lived by female adolescents; and to discuss educative practice as a care technology for coping with violence. Based on qualitative research, the data were produced through interviews with caregivers at a municipal adolescent shelter and were interpreted according ...