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Showing 1 to 20 of 171 for “"Qualitative Exploration"”.
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A qualitative exploration of Christian, Native American families
Research on Native American families is limited and emphasizes the deficits of families and overlooks those Native American families that are thriving. This study seeks to illuminate the strengths of highly religious, Christian, Native American, married couples. The study employs a strengths-based …
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A qualitative exploration of the movement disorder experience
The thesis entitled ‘A qualitative exploration of the movement disorder experience’ explores both the experience of diagnosis of several, and the lived experience of one specific, common movement disorders. Section One presents a meta-synthesis of 24 research papers, each of which explores the …
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A qualitative exploration of therapists’ countertransference reactions to clients’ aggression
This qualitative study investigated the therapist’s internal processes in the therapeutic clinical exchange in relation to client aggression. It also considered how client aggression can move from destructiveness towards constructiveness in the clinical exchange. The research responded to the need …
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A Qualitative Exploration of African American Men's Attitudes Toward Marriage
<p>The decline in the rate of marriage in the African American community has been documented in both the empirical literature and pop culture. Initially researchers postulated that the upward mobility of African American women had diminished their to marry, but studies found opposing evidence to …
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A qualitative exploration of family members’ experiences of paediatric chronic illness
… of the research reflected on the use of qualitative research in health settings and how the associated issues applied to this thesis. Epistemology was used as the lens to view how decisions in the research were made, in particular highlighting the importance of quality, the debate …
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Risk, colon cancer & physical activity: a qualitative exploration in older adults
Rationale and Objectives There is convincing evidence that physical activity (PA) reduces risk of colon cancer (CC) and may improve survival after cancer, although few older adults achieve recommended PA guidelines. Numerous barriers to participation exist, though few studies focus on …
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A qualitative exploration of blackness among black South African university students
… vast institutional origins and cultures. This qualitative study aimed to explore Black students' experiences of Blackness while navigating two university campuses in the Western Cape. Drawing upon Black Consciousness and Double Consciousness as the theoretical frameworks, this study examined …
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Reclaiming power and peace. Protective factors for positive birth: A qualitative exploration.
… of birth in a positive way? Method: Using Qualitative Descriptive methodology, face-to-face semi-structured interviews were conducted with participants who self-identified as having had a positive birth experience. Reflexive thematic analysis was used to explore and interpret the data. …
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A Qualitative Exploration of Critical Approaches to Social Justice in Student Affairs
… ground their work in such paradigms. This was a qualitative study, in which I used snowball sampling as the method for recruiting participants. I conducted semi structured interviews with 14 full time student affairs administrators, who I refer to as critically-oriented student affairs …
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A qualitative exploration of the experiences of women involved in sex work
… stigma. It synthesised findings from 14 existing qualitative studies, identified through systematic searches of six online databases. Using a meta-ethnographic approach, three themes were identified: 1) denial: ‘I do not do sex work’; 2) distancing: ‘I do sex work but it’s not me’, and 3) …
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A qualitative exploration of children's understanding of indiscriminate friendliness - and research portfolio
… Phenomenological Analysis, a phenomenological qualitative methodology that is gaining growing acclaim within the field of clinical psychology. Emergent themes were drawn from interview data which highlighted the young people’s experiences of rejection and feelings of insecurity within their …
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A qualitative exploration of who the infant is in the mothers’ mind.
Objective: This study is the first qualitative research analysing mothers’ thoughts and feelings of themselves, their infant and their developing parent-infant relationship prior to receiving a brief psychoanalytically informed under-fives treatment. It explores maternal representations from …
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A Qualitative Exploration of Cultic Experience in Relation to Mental Health Difficulties
The thesis explores the nature of religious cults and the question of what it is about such groups that leads some former members to experience them as producing lasting harm. The methodology of Classical Grounded Theory is identified as the most suitable for this enquiry and two interrelated …
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A qualitative exploration of autism and transition into further and higher education
In this thesis, I explore 42 autistic individuals’ transitions into further and higher education (FHE) in England, drawing on personal experience as well as interview data. I was diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome in 1998 at the age of 13. At the age of 15, my mother introduced the topic to me, and …
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The Experiences of Hong Kong Tertiary Students With Disabilities: A Qualitative Exploration
This qualitative study was designed to investigate the barriers and supports encountered by nine students with disabilities at an institution of higher education in Hong Kong. Participant observation in classrooms at the university studied and semi-structured interviews with students with …
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Deconstructing sex: an in-depth, qualitative exploration of women’s sexual experiences and difficulties
… this research dearth by presenting an in-depth, qualitative exploration of heterosexual women’s accounts of their sexual experiences and their perceived sexuality. A phenomenological approach was utilised against the socially constructed notion of sex to understand women’s sexuality. Five core …
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A Qualitative Exploration Of Trauma, Familismo, And Resilience In Three Mexican Immigrant Families.
<p>The purpose of this study was to examine how intergenerational trauma and other generational factors impact Mexican immigrant families. While intergenerational trauma has been well-documented among Holocaust survivors, war veterans, and historically marginalized communities, limited research has …
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A qualitative exploration of the experiences of Black Caribbean MSM living with HIV
HIV is a stigmatised chronic condition which affects approximately 100,000 people on the UK. Sexuality, gender and ethnicity and cultural background are some of the factors which give rise to different experiences of living with HIV; not all experience is well documented. Psychological support is …
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A Qualitative Exploration of Workplace Experiences to Inform Transition Services for Neurodivergent Youth
… of neurodivergent workers. Adopting a qualitative design informed by a phenomenological approach, the researcher interviewed 25 neurodivergent participants on their experiences at work. Analyses revealed participant experiences and perceptions of defining vocational success, required …
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