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How to Measure the Intervention Process? An Assessment of Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches to Data Collection in the Process Evaluation of Organizational Interventions
Organizational interventions aiming at improving employee health and wellbeing have proven to be challenging to evaluate. To analyze intervention processes two methodological approaches have widely been used: quantitative (often questionnaire data), or qualitative (often interviews). Both methods ar...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5031711/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27713707 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01380 |
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author | Abildgaard, Johan S. Saksvik, Per Ø. Nielsen, Karina |
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description | Organizational interventions aiming at improving employee health and wellbeing have proven to be challenging to evaluate. To analyze intervention processes two methodological approaches have widely been used: quantitative (often questionnaire data), or qualitative (often interviews). Both methods are established tools, but their distinct epistemological properties enable them to illuminate different aspects of organizational interventions. In this paper, we use the quantitative and qualitative process data from an organizational intervention conducted in a national postal service, where the Intervention Process Measure questionnaire (N = 285) as well as an extensive interview study (N = 50) were used. We analyze what type of knowledge about intervention processes these two methodologies provide and discuss strengths and weaknesses as well as potentials for mixed methods evaluation methodologies. |
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spelling | pubmed-50317112016-10-06 How to Measure the Intervention Process? An Assessment of Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches to Data Collection in the Process Evaluation of Organizational Interventions Abildgaard, Johan S. Saksvik, Per Ø. Nielsen, Karina Front Psychol Psychology Organizational interventions aiming at improving employee health and wellbeing have proven to be challenging to evaluate. To analyze intervention processes two methodological approaches have widely been used: quantitative (often questionnaire data), or qualitative (often interviews). Both methods are established tools, but their distinct epistemological properties enable them to illuminate different aspects of organizational interventions. In this paper, we use the quantitative and qualitative process data from an organizational intervention conducted in a national postal service, where the Intervention Process Measure questionnaire (N = 285) as well as an extensive interview study (N = 50) were used. We analyze what type of knowledge about intervention processes these two methodologies provide and discuss strengths and weaknesses as well as potentials for mixed methods evaluation methodologies. Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-09-22 /pmc/articles/PMC5031711/ /pubmed/27713707 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01380 Text en Copyright © 2016 Abildgaard, Saksvik and Nielsen. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Abildgaard, Johan S. Saksvik, Per Ø. Nielsen, Karina How to Measure the Intervention Process? An Assessment of Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches to Data Collection in the Process Evaluation of Organizational Interventions |
title | How to Measure the Intervention Process? An Assessment of Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches to Data Collection in the Process Evaluation of Organizational Interventions |
title_full | How to Measure the Intervention Process? An Assessment of Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches to Data Collection in the Process Evaluation of Organizational Interventions |
title_fullStr | How to Measure the Intervention Process? An Assessment of Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches to Data Collection in the Process Evaluation of Organizational Interventions |
title_full_unstemmed | How to Measure the Intervention Process? An Assessment of Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches to Data Collection in the Process Evaluation of Organizational Interventions |
title_short | How to Measure the Intervention Process? An Assessment of Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches to Data Collection in the Process Evaluation of Organizational Interventions |
title_sort | how to measure the intervention process? an assessment of qualitative and quantitative approaches to data collection in the process evaluation of organizational interventions |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5031711/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27713707 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01380 |
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