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Ethnographic methods for process evaluations of complex health behaviour interventions
This article outlines the contribution that ethnography could make to process evaluations for trials of complex health-behaviour interventions. Process evaluations are increasingly used to examine how health-behaviour interventions operate to produce outcomes and often employ qualitative methods to...
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BioMed Central
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4855482/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27142662 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13063-016-1340-2 |
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description | This article outlines the contribution that ethnography could make to process evaluations for trials of complex health-behaviour interventions. Process evaluations are increasingly used to examine how health-behaviour interventions operate to produce outcomes and often employ qualitative methods to do this. Ethnography shares commonalities with the qualitative methods currently used in health-behaviour evaluations but has a distinctive approach over and above these methods. It is an overlooked methodology in trials of complex health-behaviour interventions that has much to contribute to the understanding of how interventions work. These benefits are discussed here with respect to three strengths of ethnographic methodology: (1) producing valid data, (2) understanding data within social contexts, and (3) building theory productively. The limitations of ethnography within the context of process evaluations are also discussed. |
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spelling | pubmed-48554822016-05-05 Ethnographic methods for process evaluations of complex health behaviour interventions Morgan-Trimmer, Sarah Wood, Fiona Trials Commentary This article outlines the contribution that ethnography could make to process evaluations for trials of complex health-behaviour interventions. Process evaluations are increasingly used to examine how health-behaviour interventions operate to produce outcomes and often employ qualitative methods to do this. Ethnography shares commonalities with the qualitative methods currently used in health-behaviour evaluations but has a distinctive approach over and above these methods. It is an overlooked methodology in trials of complex health-behaviour interventions that has much to contribute to the understanding of how interventions work. These benefits are discussed here with respect to three strengths of ethnographic methodology: (1) producing valid data, (2) understanding data within social contexts, and (3) building theory productively. The limitations of ethnography within the context of process evaluations are also discussed. BioMed Central 2016-05-04 /pmc/articles/PMC4855482/ /pubmed/27142662 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13063-016-1340-2 Text en © Morgan-Trimmer and Wood. 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Commentary Morgan-Trimmer, Sarah Wood, Fiona Ethnographic methods for process evaluations of complex health behaviour interventions |
title | Ethnographic methods for process evaluations of complex health behaviour interventions |
title_full | Ethnographic methods for process evaluations of complex health behaviour interventions |
title_fullStr | Ethnographic methods for process evaluations of complex health behaviour interventions |
title_full_unstemmed | Ethnographic methods for process evaluations of complex health behaviour interventions |
title_short | Ethnographic methods for process evaluations of complex health behaviour interventions |
title_sort | ethnographic methods for process evaluations of complex health behaviour interventions |
topic | Commentary |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4855482/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27142662 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13063-016-1340-2 |
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