Barbara Paterson
Biographic Data
| ID | 90343 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara Paterson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara |
| FAMILY NAME | Paterson |
| SIGNATURE | PATERSON B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4348-424X |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 116 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Opportunities and Constraints in Disseminating Qualitative Research in Web 2.0 Virtual Environments
The Web 2.0 digital environment is revolutionizing how users communicate and relate to each other, and how information is shared, created, and recreated within user communities. The social media technologies in the Web 2.0 digital ecosystem are fundamentally changing the opportunities and dangers in disseminating qualitative health research. The social changes influenced by digital innovations shift dissemination from passive consumption to user-…
Motives for meaningful involvement in rural Aids service organizations
The research described herein was a three-year exploratory descriptive study to examine how meaningful involvement (MIPA) is conceptualized and experienced in rural regions of the Maritime provinces of Canada. The focus of this paper is one aspect of the research; i.e., what motivates the clients of AIDS Service Organizations (ASOs) in rural Canada to become meaningfully involved? We interviewed 34 people who were past or current clients of ASOs …
Conclusions
Ommer, R. E., and B. Paterson. 2014. Conclusions: reframing the possibilities for natural and social science dialogue on the economic history of natural resources. Ecology and Society 19(1): 17. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-05972-190117
Rebuilding the Namibian hake fishery
Paterson, B., and P. Kainge. 2014. Rebuilding the Namibian hake fishery: a case for collaboration between scientists and fishermen. Ecology and Society 19(2):49. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-06370-190249
Structural factors that promote stigmatization of drug users with hepatitis C in hospital emergency departments
A Short History of the Namibian Hake Fishery-a Social-Ecological Analysis
As a legacy of Namibia's colonial past, the country inherited severely depleted fish resources at the time of independence. Today, Namibia's fisheries are almost exclusively industrial. The hake fishery is the country's most important fishery, which was restructured from a pre-independence foreign fishery into one that is characterized by locally based, vertically integrated fishing and processing companies. It is widely believed that Namibia has…
Conducting Qualitative Metasynthesis Research
The need to synthesize qualitative research in order to inform fields of study has been highlighted as a critical imperative in recent years. Since that time, there have been a number of attempts to identify methodological approaches to achieving such a goal. Despite some notable efforts in this regard, the metasynthesis research approach continues to be somewhat elusive with regard to its steps and procedures. The authors of this article describ…
Engagement as an ethical imperative in harm reduction involving at-risk youth
The depiction of stigmatization in research about hepatitis C
Using Videorecording to Enhance the Development of Novice Researchers' Interviewing Skills
Little has been written about how to teach novice researchers about qualitative research interviewing. In this article, the authors recognize qualitative research interviewing as a practice that one develops through reflexivity. They propose that novices can develop a reflexive interviewing practice by using a guided framework to review videorecords of the interviews they conduct. The authors discuss the framework and illustrate its use with an e…
The Koala has Claws
The Shifting Perspectives Model of Chronic Illness was recently developed in the metasynthesis of more than 250 qualitative research reports about chronic illness. The model proposes that people with chronic illness view living with their disease in accordance with how much wellness or illness is in the foreground of their experience. It also identifies a number of circumstances and situations that can prompt a shift from wellness or illness in t…
The Structure of Everyday Self-Care Decision Making in Chronic Illness
As health care reform strategists increasingly recognize the critically important potential of effective everyday self-care decision making for reducing the burden of illness and the strain on health service systems, wemust find ways to understand and support it. In this study, the authors investigate persons with expertise in self-care management of type 2 diabetes,HIV/AIDS, and multiple sclerosis to understand how everyday self-care decision ma…
Blending Observational Methods
Qualitative researchers have used the observational strategies of video recording and participant observation to investigate specific phenomena. Although there have been recent advances in the separate use of these strategies, there is evidence that there is benefit in combining these observational approaches to study particular phenomena. The purpose of the paper is to present a discussion about the application of these observational methods as …
Chronic Illness Experience
Concurrent with the recent enthusiasm for qualitative research in the health fields, an energetic call for methods by which to synthesize the knowledge has been generated on various substantive topics. Although there is an emerging literature on meta-analysis and meta-synthesis, many authors overestimate the simplicity of such approaches and erroneously assume that useful knowledge can be synthesized from limited collections of study reports with…
Critical Issues in Interviewing People with Traumatic Brain Injury
People with cognitive impairments often cannot effectively recall and articulate experiences, feelings, and perceptions. Therefore, interviewing them can be fraught with pragmatic and methodological difficulties. Given this situation, the authors' experience in a study on the allocation of rehabilitative services to survivors of traumatic brain injury is discussed. Participants had physiological impairments affecting their ability to focus on int…
Influence of the Research Frame on Qualitatively Derived Health Science Knowledge
Although qualitative researchers generally acknowledge that their theoretical location and methodological orientation will influence the findings of their inquiries, it has been less well understood how the body of knowledge within a substantive field might be shaped by these factors. In this article, the authors draw on insights obtained from their experiences attempting to synthesize qualitative research findings. From that reflective process, …
Meta-Study of Qualitative Health Research
The Shifting Perspectives Model of Chronic Illness
Purpose: To present the Shifting Perspectives Model of Chronic Illness, which was derived from a metasynthesis of 292 qualitative research studies. Design: The model was derived from a metasynthesis of qualitative research about the reported experiences of adults with a chronic illness. The 292 primary research studies included a variety of interpretive research methods and were conducted by researchers from numerous countries and disciplines. Me…
A Protocol for Researcher Safety
Although there is an abundance of literature about how to conduct qualitative research and some consideration of possible threats to researchers’ psychological well-being, there is little mention of the personal safety issues that researchers face while in the field. Few researchers have attempted to address the issue of researcher safety as a methodological concern. Consequently, there are minimal guidelines available to researchers to prevent a…
Living with Diabetes as a Transformational Experience
The construct of transformation has been presented in many research studies as the epitome of living with a chronic illness. Because it has been inadequately defined, however, many other concepts (e.g., hope, meaning, control) are used in ways that suggest considerable overlap and correspondence with transformation. This article represents an attempt to explicate the structures and processes of transformation as they were revealed in a qualitativ…
Use of the Preinterview in Oral History
The majority of writings regarding interviewing in qualitative research have emphasized the actual interview process. Few authors have detailed the preparation of the participants and researcher that could occur prior to the research interview. In this article, the use of the preinterview as the preparatory stage of the research interview is discussed. The ideal content and structure of the preinterview are identified, and examples are provided r…
Influence of the Research Frame on Qualitatively Derived Health Science Knowledge
Although qualitative researchers generally acknowledge that their theoretical location and methodological orientation will influence the findings of their inquiries, it has been less well understood how the body of knowledge within a substantive field might be shaped by these factors. In this article, the authors draw on insights obtained from their experiences attempting to synthesize qualitative research findings. From that reflective process, …
Living with Diabetes as a Transformational Experience
The construct of transformation has been presented in many research studies as the epitome of living with a chronic illness. Because it has been inadequately defined, however, many other concepts (e.g., hope, meaning, control) are used in ways that suggest considerable overlap and correspondence with transformation. This article represents an attempt to explicate the structures and processes of transformation as they were revealed in a qualitativ…
The Structure of Everyday Self-Care Decision Making in Chronic Illness
As health care reform strategists increasingly recognize the critically important potential of effective everyday self-care decision making for reducing the burden of illness and the strain on health service systems, wemust find ways to understand and support it. In this study, the authors investigate persons with expertise in self-care management of type 2 diabetes,HIV/AIDS, and multiple sclerosis to understand how everyday self-care decision ma…
Critical Issues in Interviewing People with Traumatic Brain Injury
People with cognitive impairments often cannot effectively recall and articulate experiences, feelings, and perceptions. Therefore, interviewing them can be fraught with pragmatic and methodological difficulties. Given this situation, the authors' experience in a study on the allocation of rehabilitative services to survivors of traumatic brain injury is discussed. Participants had physiological impairments affecting their ability to focus on int…
Blending Observational Methods
Qualitative researchers have used the observational strategies of video recording and participant observation to investigate specific phenomena. Although there have been recent advances in the separate use of these strategies, there is evidence that there is benefit in combining these observational approaches to study particular phenomena. The purpose of the paper is to present a discussion about the application of these observational methods as …
Conducting Qualitative Metasynthesis Research
The need to synthesize qualitative research in order to inform fields of study has been highlighted as a critical imperative in recent years. Since that time, there have been a number of attempts to identify methodological approaches to achieving such a goal. Despite some notable efforts in this regard, the metasynthesis research approach continues to be somewhat elusive with regard to its steps and procedures. The authors of this article describ…
Using Videorecording to Enhance the Development of Novice Researchers' Interviewing Skills
Little has been written about how to teach novice researchers about qualitative research interviewing. In this article, the authors recognize qualitative research interviewing as a practice that one develops through reflexivity. They propose that novices can develop a reflexive interviewing practice by using a guided framework to review videorecords of the interviews they conduct. The authors discuss the framework and illustrate its use with an e…
Use of the Preinterview in Oral History
The majority of writings regarding interviewing in qualitative research have emphasized the actual interview process. Few authors have detailed the preparation of the participants and researcher that could occur prior to the research interview. In this article, the use of the preinterview as the preparatory stage of the research interview is discussed. The ideal content and structure of the preinterview are identified, and examples are provided r…
Opportunities and Constraints in Disseminating Qualitative Research in Web 2.0 Virtual Environments
The Web 2.0 digital environment is revolutionizing how users communicate and relate to each other, and how information is shared, created, and recreated within user communities. The social media technologies in the Web 2.0 digital ecosystem are fundamentally changing the opportunities and dangers in disseminating qualitative health research. The social changes influenced by digital innovations shift dissemination from passive consumption to user-…
Use of the Preinterview in Oral History
The majority of writings regarding interviewing in qualitative research have emphasized the actual interview process. Few authors have detailed the preparation of the participants and researcher that could occur prior to the research interview. In this article, the use of the preinterview as the preparatory stage of the research interview is discussed. The ideal content and structure of the preinterview are identified, and examples are provided r…
A Protocol for Researcher Safety
Although there is an abundance of literature about how to conduct qualitative research and some consideration of possible threats to researchers’ psychological well-being, there is little mention of the personal safety issues that researchers face while in the field. Few researchers have attempted to address the issue of researcher safety as a methodological concern. Consequently, there are minimal guidelines available to researchers to prevent a…
Living with Diabetes as a Transformational Experience
The construct of transformation has been presented in many research studies as the epitome of living with a chronic illness. Because it has been inadequately defined, however, many other concepts (e.g., hope, meaning, control) are used in ways that suggest considerable overlap and correspondence with transformation. This article represents an attempt to explicate the structures and processes of transformation as they were revealed in a qualitativ…
Meta-Study of Qualitative Health Research
The Shifting Perspectives Model of Chronic Illness
Purpose: To present the Shifting Perspectives Model of Chronic Illness, which was derived from a metasynthesis of 292 qualitative research studies. Design: The model was derived from a metasynthesis of qualitative research about the reported experiences of adults with a chronic illness. The 292 primary research studies included a variety of interpretive research methods and were conducted by researchers from numerous countries and disciplines. Me…
Chronic Illness Experience
Concurrent with the recent enthusiasm for qualitative research in the health fields, an energetic call for methods by which to synthesize the knowledge has been generated on various substantive topics. Although there is an emerging literature on meta-analysis and meta-synthesis, many authors overestimate the simplicity of such approaches and erroneously assume that useful knowledge can be synthesized from limited collections of study reports with…
Critical Issues in Interviewing People with Traumatic Brain Injury
People with cognitive impairments often cannot effectively recall and articulate experiences, feelings, and perceptions. Therefore, interviewing them can be fraught with pragmatic and methodological difficulties. Given this situation, the authors' experience in a study on the allocation of rehabilitative services to survivors of traumatic brain injury is discussed. Participants had physiological impairments affecting their ability to focus on int…
Influence of the Research Frame on Qualitatively Derived Health Science Knowledge
Although qualitative researchers generally acknowledge that their theoretical location and methodological orientation will influence the findings of their inquiries, it has been less well understood how the body of knowledge within a substantive field might be shaped by these factors. In this article, the authors draw on insights obtained from their experiences attempting to synthesize qualitative research findings. From that reflective process, …
The Koala has Claws
The Shifting Perspectives Model of Chronic Illness was recently developed in the metasynthesis of more than 250 qualitative research reports about chronic illness. The model proposes that people with chronic illness view living with their disease in accordance with how much wellness or illness is in the foreground of their experience. It also identifies a number of circumstances and situations that can prompt a shift from wellness or illness in t…
The Structure of Everyday Self-Care Decision Making in Chronic Illness
As health care reform strategists increasingly recognize the critically important potential of effective everyday self-care decision making for reducing the burden of illness and the strain on health service systems, wemust find ways to understand and support it. In this study, the authors investigate persons with expertise in self-care management of type 2 diabetes,HIV/AIDS, and multiple sclerosis to understand how everyday self-care decision ma…
Blending Observational Methods
Qualitative researchers have used the observational strategies of video recording and participant observation to investigate specific phenomena. Although there have been recent advances in the separate use of these strategies, there is evidence that there is benefit in combining these observational approaches to study particular phenomena. The purpose of the paper is to present a discussion about the application of these observational methods as …
The depiction of stigmatization in research about hepatitis C
Using Videorecording to Enhance the Development of Novice Researchers' Interviewing Skills
Little has been written about how to teach novice researchers about qualitative research interviewing. In this article, the authors recognize qualitative research interviewing as a practice that one develops through reflexivity. They propose that novices can develop a reflexive interviewing practice by using a guided framework to review videorecords of the interviews they conduct. The authors discuss the framework and illustrate its use with an e…
Engagement as an ethical imperative in harm reduction involving at-risk youth
Conducting Qualitative Metasynthesis Research
The need to synthesize qualitative research in order to inform fields of study has been highlighted as a critical imperative in recent years. Since that time, there have been a number of attempts to identify methodological approaches to achieving such a goal. Despite some notable efforts in this regard, the metasynthesis research approach continues to be somewhat elusive with regard to its steps and procedures. The authors of this article describ…
Structural factors that promote stigmatization of drug users with hepatitis C in hospital emergency departments
A Short History of the Namibian Hake Fishery-a Social-Ecological Analysis
As a legacy of Namibia's colonial past, the country inherited severely depleted fish resources at the time of independence. Today, Namibia's fisheries are almost exclusively industrial. The hake fishery is the country's most important fishery, which was restructured from a pre-independence foreign fishery into one that is characterized by locally based, vertically integrated fishing and processing companies. It is widely believed that Namibia has…
Motives for meaningful involvement in rural Aids service organizations
The research described herein was a three-year exploratory descriptive study to examine how meaningful involvement (MIPA) is conceptualized and experienced in rural regions of the Maritime provinces of Canada. The focus of this paper is one aspect of the research; i.e., what motivates the clients of AIDS Service Organizations (ASOs) in rural Canada to become meaningfully involved? We interviewed 34 people who were past or current clients of ASOs …
Conclusions
Ommer, R. E., and B. Paterson. 2014. Conclusions: reframing the possibilities for natural and social science dialogue on the economic history of natural resources. Ecology and Society 19(1): 17. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-05972-190117
Rebuilding the Namibian hake fishery
Paterson, B., and P. Kainge. 2014. Rebuilding the Namibian hake fishery: a case for collaboration between scientists and fishermen. Ecology and Society 19(2):49. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-06370-190249
Opportunities and Constraints in Disseminating Qualitative Research in Web 2.0 Virtual Environments
The Web 2.0 digital environment is revolutionizing how users communicate and relate to each other, and how information is shared, created, and recreated within user communities. The social media technologies in the Web 2.0 digital ecosystem are fundamentally changing the opportunities and dangers in disseminating qualitative health research. The social changes influenced by digital innovations shift dissemination from passive consumption to user-…
Psychology (18 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Qualitative research (14 works) · Medicine (11 works) · Social science (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Mental Health and Patient Involvement (6 works) · Public relations (5 works)