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Cancer survivors’ perspectives on adjustment-focused self-management interventions: A qualitative meta-synthesis (2016)

Coffey, Laura; Mooney, Orla; Dunne, Simon; Sharp, Linda; Timmons, Aileen Mary; Desmond,...

Cancer survivors’ perspectives on adjustment-focused self-management interventions: A qualitative meta-synthesis (2016)

Coffey, Laura; Mooney, Orla; Dunne, Simon; Sharp, Linda; Timmons, Aileen Mary; Desmond, Deirdre; O'Sullivan, Eleanor; Timon, Conrad; Gooberman-Hill, Rachael; Gallagher, Pamela

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Purpose: Self-management interventions improve patient outcomes across a range of long-term conditions but are often limited by low uptake and completion rates. The aim of this paper was to conduct a meta-synthesis of qualitative studies exploring cancer survivors’ views and experiences of engaging with adjustment-focused self-management interventions in order to inform the development of future interventions targeting this population. Methods: Four electronic databases were systematically searched. Studies that used qualitative methods to explore cancer survivors’ views and experiences of engaging with adjustment-focused self-management interventions were included. A meta-ethnographic approach was used to synthesize the findings. Results: Thirteen studies met the inclusion criteria. Engaging with adjustment-focused self-management interventions enabled cancer survivors to gain emotional and informational support from peers and/or facilitators in an open, non-judgemental environm...

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/10592/

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Consulting the experiential knowledge of practitioners and learners through qualitative research: Implications for developing an online history project with older adults. (2015)

Kavanagh, Michael

Consulting the experiential knowledge of practitioners and learners through qualitative research: Implications for developing an online history project with older adults. (2015)

Kavanagh, Michael

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Individual difference and diversity among older people alludes to the importance of creating flexible programmes facilitated in welcoming, person-centred, learning environments. In response, I present my ideas for developing a future online local history project involving older adults’ memories of childhood. Through my qualitative fieldwork interviews, I consult practitioners and learners who have experience using Information and Communication Technologies with, and as, older adults in education and training contexts. I invite these participants to describe the possibilities for, and challenges to, realising my ideas for the future project. Through documentary analyses, and my use of a recurring circle metaphor, I compare and contrast the participants’ expressed ideas with those I garner from among the literature. My intentions are to direct my project designs in response to the educational needs of older adults. I note EU and national policy responses to demographical trends as see...

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/9638/

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Discovery and dialectics: Gerhard Kleining's methodology of qualitative research (1994)

Cox, Laurence

Discovery and dialectics: Gerhard Kleining's methodology of qualitative research (1994)

Cox, Laurence

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"[N]either Method nor Theory alone can be taken as part of the actual work of the social studies. In fact, both are often just the opposite: they are statesmanlike withdrawals from the problems of social science. Usually, we have seen, they are based on some grand model of inquiry with which other people are beat on the head. That this grand model is not capable of altogether full use is not, perhaps, too important, for it may still be used ritualistically." (Mills 1970 (originally 1959): 136). This paper aims to present the Hamburg sociologist Gerhard Kleining's perspective on the methodology of qualitative social research to an English-speaking audience. In a context where methodological discussion seems to have become more or less concentrated on specific fields there may be some value in opening up otherwise neglected issues and in presenting unfamiliar perspectives on familiar problems, even if that means seeming a bit naï¶¥. By exploring Kleining's centr...

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/443/

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Exploring the belief systems of software development professionals (2015)

O'Connor, Rory; Yilmaz, Murat

Exploring the belief systems of software development professionals (2015)

O'Connor, Rory; Yilmaz, Murat

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It is commonly accepted that an individual’s beliefs and actions are based on their assessment and perceptions of the world they inhabit. In order to determine what practices an individual is likely to follow at any given time, it is necessary to understand the individual's behavioural intention in a given circumstance. From an Information Technology perspective, software development professional’s belief systems are potentially the basis for the adoption and implementation of new and innovative work practices and processes. In this paper we explore the belief systems of software development professionals to understand the beliefs underlying intention and practice, and seek answers about how they adopt or reject new and innovative software development processes and practices. The results point out a strong influence of past experiences, personality types and repeated behaviour on current software development processes and practices in industrial settings.

http://doras.dcu.ie/20994/

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Exploring the Role of Purpose in the Lives of Career Changers: A Qualitative Inquiry (2017)

Zhu, Jessie Jie; Lomas, Tim; Burke, Jolanta; Ivtzan, Itai

Exploring the Role of Purpose in the Lives of Career Changers: A Qualitative Inquiry (2017)

Zhu, Jessie Jie; Lomas, Tim; Burke, Jolanta; Ivtzan, Itai

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Although purpose in life is well-established as a key element of optimal human functioning, there is a lack of qualitative research exploring the role of purpose in individuals’ lives, particularly in the context of career change. The aim of the study is to gain a deep understanding of the role of purpose in the lives of career changers, including the process of developing purpose and its impact on individuals’ well-being. A qualitative method was employed that involved semi-structured interviews with a sample of thirteen participants who went through a career change process. The qualitative grounded theory analysis reveals a purpose process model, which posits that individuals experience purpose as an ongoing and dynamic process consisting of questioning, exploring, unfolding, and evolving as critical developmental stages of individuals’ journeys to discover and develop purpose. The process of pursuing a purposeful way of living generally has a positive impact on individuals’ hedon...

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/12825/

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Living in Critical Times: The Impact of Critical Incidents on Frontline Ambulance Personnel: A Qualitative Perspective (2008)

Gallagher, Sharon; McGilloway, Sinéad

Living in Critical Times: The Impact of Critical Incidents on Frontline Ambulance Personnel: A Qualitative Perspective (2008)

Gallagher, Sharon; McGilloway, Sinéad

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Little is known about the impact of Critical Incidents (CIs) on the lives of ambulance personnel. One-to-one interviews were conducted with 27 participants who had experienced CIs during the previous 12 months in order to: assess the nature and impact of CIs on health and well-being; examine attitudes toward support services; and explore barriers to service use. The results showed that incidents involving children, suicides, and grotesque mutilation were the most distressing. Participants reported a wide range of physical and mental health problems including sleep difficulties, angry outbursts, irrationality and feelings of alienation. Key themes included: low support service uptake due to fears relating to confidentiality and machismo; a perceived lack of concern and support from management; and a need for professional counselling and stress awareness training. Emergency Medical Controllers (EMCs) also reported a number of difficulties unique to their role. The findings suggest tha...

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/9291/

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Parental Involvement: Irish Travellers and early years education (2018)

Boyle, Anne; Hanafin, Joan; Flynn, Marie

Parental Involvement: Irish Travellers and early years education (2018)

Boyle, Anne; Hanafin, Joan; Flynn, Marie

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This paper explores Traveller parents’ involvement in Traveller preschools in Ireland. Travellers are a distinct cultural group who have experienced educational disadvantage. Against a backdrop of changing policy paradigms, Traveller preschools were established in the 1970s as a compensatory educational intervention. The study methodology was mainly qualitative, drawing on interpretivism, social constructivism and critical theory. Methods included document analysis, focus group and individual interviews, and a questionnaire survey. From a thematic analysis of the data, three overlapping themes emerged about Traveller parents' involvement in schools: how school culture facilitates parental involvement; parents’ direct involvement in preschools; and parents' home-based activities supporting children's education and development. Travellers were extensively involved in various ways except formal decisionmaking. Traveller preschools were experienced as protected enclaves w...

http://doras.dcu.ie/24707/

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Reflection-on-action in qualitative research processes: deconstructing research and developing an honest critical self-appraisal rubric. (2018)

Stynes, Martin; Murphy, Timothy; McNamara, Gerry; O'Hara, Joe

Reflection-on-action in qualitative research processes: deconstructing research and developing an honest critical self-appraisal rubric. (2018)

Stynes, Martin; Murphy, Timothy; McNamara, Gerry; O'Hara, Joe

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In this paper, four critical friends meet to discuss qualitative research practices. Together they put one of their own case studies under the knife and deconstruct it to investigate the possibilities that knowledge work is complicated not only by the dynamics of socially constructed enterprises and the actors involved therein, but by the positioning of the researcher. The case describes an evaluative study of a university programme where students engaged in directed experiential learning in group integrated learning settings. The researcher was also the course lead-tutor and this gave rise to some concern, on later reflection and in discussions among critical friends, when issues of researcher positioning were considered. Together, through questioning the topic, the literature, the research experience and the role of the researcher, we developed a reflection-on-action rubric. In a research arena where subjective, interpretative and messy examples abound, as they should, this paper ...

http://doras.dcu.ie/23100/