How Patients Contribute to an Online Psychoeducation Forum for Bipolar Disorder: A Virtual Participant Observation Study. [PDF]
Background: In a recent exploratory randomized controlled trial, an online psychoeducation intervention for bipolar disorder has been found to be feasible and acceptable to patients and may positively impact on their self-management behaviors and ...
Poole R, Smith D, Simpson S.
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Determinants of entrepreneurial success: A comparative analysis of farm and non-farm sectors
Entrepreneurship development has become the centre of many emerging economies as it is believed that entrepreneurship contributes significantly to economic growth. Quite a good number of researches have been done on factors that determine entrepreneurial
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Analyzing the researcher-participant in EMCA
Conversation analysis strives to use naturalistic data in its research, but the definition of “natural” is often unclear (Speer, 2002) and can be at odds with both ethnomethodological understandings of data (Lynch, 2002) and practices of data collection
Emily Hofstetter
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Using non-participant observation to uncover mechanisms: insights from a realist evaluation [PDF]
This article outlines how a realist evaluation of dementia care in hospitals used non-participant observation to support the refinement and testing of mechanisms likely to lead to the use of person-centred care. We found that comments and explanations of
Bhaskar R +9 more
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Social Media in Research on a Marginalized Identity: The Case of Atheism in Indonesia
Social media have played a major role as a place where one can meet and socialize with like-minded people, and this is especially important for marginalized groups.
Timo Duile
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Making films in a Brazilian slum with children: a participant observation research [PDF]
This article stands for innovative learning opportunities to social inclusion by film education. The theoretical model is a combined structure coming from approaches and projects of social inclusion through film education.
Juliana, Mirna, Pacheco, Raquel
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Shadow writing and participant observation : a study of criminal justice social work around sentencing [PDF]
The study of decision-making by public officials in administrative settings has been a mainstay of law and society scholarship for decades. The methodological challenges posed by this research agenda are well understood: how can socio-legal researchers ...
Burns, Nicola +4 more
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Garde-à-vous à Manesar. Une observation participante parmi les gardiens de sécurité en Inde
The article gives an account of an experience of participant observation in a security guards training in Manesar, a suburb in the south-west of Delhi, India. The author narrates the experience, with its serendipity and its ill luck, while showing how it
Damien Carrière
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Participant Observation as Ethnography or Ethnography as Participant Observation in Organizational Research [PDF]
There is a strong tradition of observational research in most areas of the social sciences, especially in Anthropology and Sociology. However, in business and management research observation is often seen as a poor relative to questionnaire surveys and ...
A Eddington +44 more
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Ethnography? Participant observation, a potentially revolutionary praxis [PDF]
This essay focuses on the core of ethnographic research—participant observation—to argue that it is a potentially revolutionary praxis because it forces us to question our theoretical presuppositions about the world, produce knowledge that is new, was ...
Shah, Alpa
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