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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"focused ethnography"”.
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Youth participation in child welfare decision making: A focused ethnography
… family team conferences. The study employed a focused ethnography design, characterized by relatively short-term field visits, intensive data collection and intensive data analysis. Data collection included observations of permanency planning family team conferences, followed by in-depth …
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Coping Behaviors of African Americans with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A focused Ethnography
… with IBD were interviewed and observed using a focused ethnography. Results: Data analysis resulted in four major themes: (1) spending time living in the bathroom; (2) time and food restricted eating practices and cultural food avoidance; (3) dealing with a life full of stress; and (4) the …
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Restorative Care Unit: A Focused Ethnography of Leadership in a 20- Bed Hospital
… impacted leadership and culture of the RCU. A focused ethnographic approach provided insight into the nursing team members’ (registered nurses [RNs], registered practical nurses [RPNs] and personal support workers [PSWs]) shared experiences, and the contextual factors that impacted the culture …
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Exploring Intergenerational Value Changes across Three Generations of Emirati Women Using Focused Ethnography
… in the Gemeinschaft/Gesellschaft paradigm, this focused ethnography explored the push and pull of traditional boundaries within a collectivist society and the necessary navigation of infused Westernized philosophies promoting individualism and autonomy. Participants in this study (<em>N</em> = …
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Normalizing the Abnormal: Self-Identified Traumatic Events and Critical Care Nurses, A Focused Ethnography
… and examine resources offered to the CCN. A focused ethnography (Roper and Shapira, 2000) methodology was used for the study and was guided by the research question, “What are CCNs’ experiences and responses to a self-identified traumatic event(s) in the emergency department or intensive-care …
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The Meaning and Experiences of Healthy Eating in Mexican American Children: A Focused Ethnography
Purpose</p><p> The purpose of this focused ethnography is to understand the meaning and cultural influences of healthy eating and the role of nursing in the promotion of healthy eating practices from the Mexican American child's point of view. </p><p> Background</p><p> No current studies directly …
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How the classroom schools: A focused ethnography exploring the built classroom environment and its inhabitants in one kindergarten
<p>This study is a focused ethnography around the sociology of a classroom’s built environment and its young inhabitants. I spent three months immersed in a kindergarten classroom where I used child-centered research methods (ie. the kids created collaborative and individual classroom maps and …
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Describing the Cultural Perceptions of Weight and Perceived Body Size with Obese African American Women: A Descriptive Focused Ethnography
… AAW from an emic or insider's perspective. A focused ethnographic perspective was used to describe obese AAW's cultural norms about perceived body size and describe obese AAW's self-definition and self-worth that relate to perceived body size. A sample of eight obese AAW was recruited for the …
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Nurse Educators' Perceptions About the Culture of Nursing and Their Role in Bringing Students into that Culture: A Focused Ethnography
… profession. </p><p>Methodology: This study was a focused ethnography, utilizing Leininger's Four Phases of Data Analysis. </p><p>Conclusion and Implications: Four main themes emerged from the data. These themes are the culture of nursing is multifaceted, multivalent and at times contradictory; …
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Using Ethnography to Capture Learner Experience in Handover Simulation Modules
… elements of these courses through focused ethnography. METHODS: We describe a focused ethnographic study of two simulation-based modules of handover education using direct participant observation. The observers, medical students, and physician assistant student participant of these …
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The Role of Community Paramedicine Programming in Providing Lift Assists in Southwestern Ontario
… and primary care providers. This qualitative focused ethnography study utilized semi-structured interviews with community paramedics (CPs) to describe the role of CPs in providing lift assists in Southwestern Ontario. Interview transcripts were inductively coded and analyzed to generate themes …
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Not All Who Wander are Lost: An Ethnographic Study of Individual Knowledge Construction within a Community of Practice
This focused ethnography of Appalachian Trail (AT) long-distance hikers explored the situated and informal nature of individual knowledge construction as mediated through a community of practice. Unlike place-based or cyber-bound communities, the ever-changing membership and location dynamics of AT …
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An Ethnographic Study of Pre-Graduate, Precepted Nursing Student Clinical Placements in Long-Term Care Homes
… this study’s urgent need. This qualitative focused ethnography explored preceptor, faculty advisor, and pre-graduate student beliefs, values, and practices contributing to positive LTC home clinical placements. Upon receiving research ethics board clearance, six participants were recruited …
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Exploring Co-Occupation Between University Students and Older Adults Living Together in a Retirement Home
… the factors that shaped these co-occupations. A focused ethnography, involving interviews and observations, was used to gain insight into the co-occupational experiences of the students and older adults. Thematic analysis of data generated findings regarding the roles of participants, using music …
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Exploring the Use of Inclusive Teaching Strategies to increase the Effectiveness of Adult Learning Programs related to Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) within Canadian Public Sector Organisations.
… strategies. The research methodology is focused ethnography, and with the theoretical frame of social constructionism this research allows for a focus on the relationship between individuals and a particular aspect of their life i.e. corporate training. Participants were identified …
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Experiences and Perceptions of Rural Postpartum Women With Substance Use Disorders Inclusive of Opioids Regarding Their Care
… outcomes have not improved substantially. This focused ethnography aimed to address that gap by exploring rural women’s experiences and perceptions of care to inform development of efficacious, holistic models of care to improve outcomes for these women and their children. Participant …
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A Study of Health Care Practices and Health Beliefs of Puerto Rican Women in Southeastern Pennsylvania
The purpose of this focused ethnography was to discover the culturally based health care beliefs and practices of the Puerto Rican population in urban Southeastern Pennsylvania as related by Puerto Rican women. The study also sought to discern the influence of acculturation on the health beliefs …
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Access to Care and the Use of Healthcare Services by Women in Rural Cameroon: A Participatory Action Research Study
… action research was used guided by a Focused ethnography in phase one. Twenty-five women aged 21-77 years were recruited through local the administrative leaders to participate after giving their consent. Focus group discussions were organized to explore and understand the experiences …
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The Experience Of Chronic Pain As Described By African American Indigent Adults Attending An Urban Primary Care Clinic
… severe chronic pain for more than three months. Focused ethnography, two to three face-to-face interviews and two to three photovoice sessions. Photovoice provides marginalized individuals with a medium to showcase their experiences with chronic pain, and captures with images, the pain experience …
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Community Physiotherapy and Chronic Disease Self-Management for Rural Community-Dwelling Older Adults
… a chronic disease self-management strategy using focused ethnography; and physiotherapists’ experiences in promoting exercise as a means to chronic disease self-management using hermeneutic phenomenology. Findings: Older adults defined exercise generally, as movement, but did not demonstrate an …
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