Qualitative Research for Allied Health Professionals: Challenging Choices

Prologue.

PART I: Planning the research.

Chapter 1: ‘Going exploring’: The nature of qualitative research (Linda Finlay).

Chapter 2: Mapping methodology (Linda Finlay).

Chapter 3: Strategic choices in research planning (Barbara Steward).

Chapter 4 Ethical and governance issues in qualitative research (Claire Ballinger and Rose Wiles).

PART II: Doing the research.

Chapter 5: A grounded theory of the wellbeing of older people (Mandy Stanley).

Chapter 6: An ethnography of physiotherapy culture (Barbara Richardson).

Chapter 7: Investigating invisible groups using mixed methodologies (Barbara Steward).

Chapter 8: Communication practices in physiotherapy: A conversation analytic study (Ruth H. Parry).

Chapter 9: Using biographical research with disabled young people (Michael Curtin).

Chapter 10: Low back pain: Exploring the meaning of exercise management through interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) (Sarah G. Dean, Jonathan A. Smith and Sheila Payne).

Chapter 11: Using a biographic-narrative-interpretive method: Exploring motivation in mental health (Tanya Campbell-Breen and Fiona Poland).

Chapter 12: Empowering young people through participatory research? (Anne Killett).

Chapter 13: The embodied experience of multiple sclerosis: An existential-phenomenological analysis (Linda Finlay).

Chapter 14: Discourse analysis in action: The construction of risk in a community day hospital (Claire Ballinger and Julianne Cheek).

Chapter 15: A case study of unconscious processes in an organisation (Paula Hyde).

PART III: Presenting the research.

Chapter 16: Demonstrating rigour and quality? (Claire Ballinger).

Chapter 17: Disseminating the research: Towards knowledge (Linda Finlay and Barbara Steward).

Glossary.

Index.