Data collection and analysis
The study used a qualitative research approach with the aim of generating exploratory and descriptive knowledge (Draper 2004). Central features of grounded theory methodology as originally described by Glaser and Strauss (1967) were used to support the analysis. These include the coding and categorization of data and the adoption of the constant comparative methodology. This methodology requires the researcher to constantly review data and seek to understand its meaning within the participant’s context. The starting point for each interview was the question, ‘What is the content and process of a comprehensive mental health nursing assessment’? Interviews were transcribed and these transcripts were treated as data. Words, sentences and passages in the transcripts of interviews were identified that described aspects of the process used by nurses during a comprehensive mental health nursing assessment. Conceptually elated pieces of information were coded together and this coded information was then categorized into themes and these codes, categories and themes were constantly reviewed as new data became available (Elliott & Jordan 2010).While it is often difficult to describe this type of qualitative methodology (Bringeret al. 2004), its advantage is that it enables people (in this case, mental health nurses) to provide a description of their actual practice from their perspective. Themes and associated data were reviewed by the authors and conclusions regarding conceptual relationships were checked with participants to ensure analytic rigor (Tobin et al. 2004). A preliminary analysis of the data and its interpretation was presented at a conference, where the results were seen by those nurses present as plausible. According to Rolfe (2006), the exposure of data coding and analysis in this way should generate confidence in the rigor of analysis and the suitability of the work for dissemination.
รวบรวมข้อมูลและวิเคราะห์ The study used a qualitative research approach with the aim of generating exploratory and descriptive knowledge (Draper 2004). Central features of grounded theory methodology as originally described by Glaser and Strauss (1967) were used to support the analysis. These include the coding and categorization of data and the adoption of the constant comparative methodology. This methodology requires the researcher to constantly review data and seek to understand its meaning within the participant’s context. The starting point for each interview was the question, ‘What is the content and process of a comprehensive mental health nursing assessment’? Interviews were transcribed and these transcripts were treated as data. Words, sentences and passages in the transcripts of interviews were identified that described aspects of the process used by nurses during a comprehensive mental health nursing assessment. Conceptually elated pieces of information were coded together and this coded information was then categorized into themes and these codes, categories and themes were constantly reviewed as new data became available (Elliott & Jordan 2010).While it is often difficult to describe this type of qualitative methodology (Bringeret al. 2004), its advantage is that it enables people (in this case, mental health nurses) to provide a description of their actual practice from their perspective. Themes and associated data were reviewed by the authors and conclusions regarding conceptual relationships were checked with participants to ensure analytic rigor (Tobin et al. 2004). A preliminary analysis of the data and its interpretation was presented at a conference, where the results were seen by those nurses present as plausible. According to Rolfe (2006), the exposure of data coding and analysis in this way should generate confidence in the rigor of analysis and the suitability of the work for dissemination.
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