The Client: Health Promotion Research Center, University of Washington
The Challenges:
To rapidly train experienced quantitative researchers in rigorous qualitative data analysis methods. Tailor the training for professionals who already have a basic understanding of qualitative research and who have an existing data set which they want to develop into a publishable article for a public health journal.
Our Method:
Conduct a two-stage training in qualitative data analysis: (day one) presentation of "Qualitative Data Analysis: Rigor and Reality," (day two) in-depth group review and discussion of existing data set and developing manuscript.
The Results:
The training curriculum:
- Establishing and maintaining quality
- Triangulation
- Codebook development
- Reliability, validity or typicality
- Focus group analysis
- Team coding
- Practicalities