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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"multi method design"”.
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Fitness and fitting in: An exploratory study of gender and exercise
… Planned Behavior (TPB) as a framework. Using a multi-method design, female (N = 308) and male (N = 131) undergraduate and graduate students at a large Midwestern university completed a validated TPB and exercise survey. Interested undergraduate and graduate students then participated in focus …
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Images and perspectives : young children and digital photography
… twenty-one 2-4 year old children. A qualitative multi-method design was used, based on the Mosaic approach (Clark & Moss, 2011). The research focused on: (a) the children's perspectives, and (b) the ability of children's photographs to encourage dialogue and support a culture of listening. The …
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The psychosocial impact of online problem gambling
… three stages of linked research utilising a multi-method design including a literature-based scoping study, in-depth interviews (n=40), and a comprehensive online survey (n=975) in order to triangulate the data to examine the psychosocial impact and potential addictiveness of internet …
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Political Parties and Social Movements: Mobilizing and Representing Civil Society
… of movement organizations. Why? I employ a multi-method design combining the analysis of voters and movement party success with original data from fieldwork in Sweden and Germany on four movements and the Green and Pirate parties they spawned. I find that movements are incentivized to be …
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Email stress and desired email use
… email use. The thesis is based on a three-stage multi-method design involving quantitative surveys and qualitative interviews. The results of these studies are part of the four self-sufficient papers composing the thesis. While the papers make their own contributions, they also build on one …
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Learning as Leisure: Motivation, Outcome, Value
… leisure learning activities. To achieve this a multi-method design was used to collect and analyze both quantitative and qualitative data. A questionnaire was used to collect quantitative data on participant motivational orientations. Demographic items were also included on the questionnaire to …
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Facilities Management ‘Cultural Fit’ and the Socialisation of External Service Provider Employees in Client Organisations
… study was conducted as a qualitative multi-method design. This was selected because there were obvious gaps in socialisation especially in the FM industry. Qualitative methods are believed to provide richer data and this was adopted to begin closing those gaps through the provision of …
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On Healing HeARTs: A Saudi Woman Perspective on the Experience of Baby Loss, Art, and Compassion
… and compassion in the healing process. Using a multi-method design that includes art-based methods and autoethnography, I narrate my own experience of baby loss. The study relies on theories of sense-making and constructivism to interpret my findings. Looking at the experience from a unique …
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Physical Activity Participation among Adolescent Boys with Autism Spectrum Disorder
… A critical qualitative study using a multi-method design was used where 10 adolescent boys with ASD participated in two face-to-face interviews, and each created a digital story. Findings of this study make three substantive contributions to the literature on PA participation. First, …
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Acculturation and the mental health of young refugees resettled under the humanitarian Gateway Protection Programme in Greater Manchester
… Organisations. Data was collected through a multi-method design which combined Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) with Visual Arts-Based Narrative Research (VABNR) and analysed thematically.Four overarching themes emerged from the data; People and places; Finding self; Its nearly all new to me; …
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Agile Arbeitsorganisation in der Intralogistik – Die Bedeutung agiler Methoden, Praktiken und Tools für die Reaktionsfähigkeit in der Intralogistik aus der Perspektive von Blue-Collar-Beschäftigten in Schweizer Industrie- und Handelsunternehmen
… and competitive differentiation. Yet, how agile methods, practices and tools, largely developed for knowledge-intensive white-collar contexts, can be adapted to physically bound, takt-driven blue-collar settings remains unclear. This thesis examines whether and how agile approaches can enhance …
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A Calcium-Centered Socio-Ecological Model of Prostate Cancer Disparities: Preliminary Studies and Findings
… different levels of calcium regulation. Using a multi-method design, this research aims at developing an integrative mechanistic model of PCa. We argue that given the versatile and ubiquitous role calcium plays in nutrition, physical environment, and in key cellular processes, that mineral cation …
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To what extent EU accession provide an opportunity for the nursing leadership in Croatia and Romania to advance a professional agenda? : A comparative case study using an ethnographic approach
… research question and objectives are designed to identify the policy context prior EU accession, the processes and mechanisms employed to achieve compliance with Directive 2005/36/EC, the nursing policy agendas and achieved legislative and professional outcomes. They are analytically …
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A multi-methods approach to explore the organisational level barriers and facilitators to the implementation of evidence-based guidance in primary care.
… of guidance into practice.<br/><br/><b>Methods</b>: A three phase multi-method design. (1) A literature review exploring organisational change in primary healthcare organisations, focusing on knowledge translation; (2) Development of a dental team questionnaire measuring structure, …
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Development of a psychosocial support programme for orphans and vulnerable children in the Vhembe District, South Africa
… for OVCs in the Vhembe District of South Africa. Method: The research strategy chosen for this study was the Multiphase Mixed-Methods approach. The study was conducted in phases. Phase 1 was a systematic review to identify the available support programmes, interventions, and strategies for orphans …
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Multilingual medical communication: Staff with different language repertoires in an intensive care environment
This thesis examines the complex intersection of multilingualism, institutional hierarchy, and the nursing profession within the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of a private South African hospital. Global nursing migration and local skill shortages have created a workplace context in which English is the …
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The effect of violent video game playing on gamer's views of victims of crime
This research was designed to explore the relationship between violent video game play and attitudes towards victims. As the violent genre of games become more popular and as the graphics and content becomes even more realistic and immersive, there has been concern that this media form offers a …
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Interacting With Domestic Objects: How Men in India Create a Sense of Home Away from Home
… of belonging and identity among mobile men. Methodologically, this thesis adopts a qualitative, multi-method design integrating material culture, anthropological, sociological and architectural perspectives. Data collection involved seventy-two semi-structured interviews capturing narratives …
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Ungdomars och deras föräldrars erfarenheter av att leva med inflammatorisk tarmsjukdom – Fokus på hälsa, självkänsla och egenvård
… filled in a disease-specific questionnaire, designed to explore the parents’ views and the degree to which they agreed about their child’s current and future health and family functioning in daily life. In study IV, 67 adolescents described their perceptions of well-being, self-management and …
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The effect of Basel II on SME financing in Germany. An exploratory study of the impact of the new Basel Accord on SMES and financiers in Germany
… literature review using the comparative method (Peters, 1998) 'Most Different Systems' evidence is provided that there is no consistent picture regarding the effect of Basel II. Therefore, further research is needed to determine whether the effect in Germany is consistent, from a …
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