Jude Spiers
Biographic Data
| ID | 3886523 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jude Spiers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jude |
| FAMILY NAME | Spiers |
| SIGNATURE | SPIERS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8087-2559 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 554 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Do You Understand What I Am Saying?”: Exploring Language Practices in Describing Life With Diabetes
Language is a vehicle to express and defend one's desired identity by employing socially normative strategies to promote and protect a preferred identity. In this qualitative secondary analysis, we explored the language practices in 30 interviews with 15 adults with diabetes who use insulin pumps. Inductive thematic analysis guided by Identity Process Theory illuminated how participants expressed and defended their preferred identities. Language …
Developing a Quality Improvement Framework to Enhance the Health System User Experience for Individuals Living With Type 1 Diabetes: The Reshape T1D Study
INTRODUCTION: User experience design aims to create products and services that are accessible, usable, and enjoyable. The Reshape T1D study aims to apply these principles to understand how individuals living with T1D interact with and experience healthcare to inform T1D clinical quality improvement. METHODS: Using a community-based participatory research design, we involved four patients and four clinicians as co-researchers throughout the resear…
Time, diagnosis, and medication: The institutional circuit of billing in community mental health care
The Contributions of Institutional Ethnography to Addressing Mental Health as a Public Health Crisis
Mental illness represents a substantial global public health crisis, marked by high prevalence, significant economic costs, and profound impacts on individuals' lives. Institutional ethnography (IE) is an approach to qualitative public health research that offers a methodologically rigorous way of addressing complex social problems. IE differs from many other qualitative research methods in its materialist, social ontology, which guides researche…
Experiencing Trauma During or Before Pregnancy: Qualitative Secondary Analysis After Two Disasters
Nigerian Health Care Providers and Diabetes Self-Management Support: Their Perspectives and Practices
Nigeria struggles to reframe its traditional acute-care disease approach to health care to accommodate rising needs for chronic disease care. This interpretive descriptive study explored Nigerian healthcare providers' (HCPs) perspectives, experiences, and practices related to self-management support (SMS). Observational and experiential data were gathered from 19 HCPs at two urban hospitals in Southeastern Nigeria (seven physicians, four nurses, …
An Interpretive Description of Sociocultural Influences on Diabetes Self-Management Support in Nigeria
The purpose of this study is to explore how Nigeria's social and cultural environment influences professional diabetes self-management support practices. This interpretive descriptive study is based on two diabetes clinics in southeastern Nigeria. Nineteen healthcare providers, including nurses, were purposely selected and engaged in participant observation and interviews. Concurrent data generation and analysis facilitated iterative constant com…
A case study unpacking the collaborative research process: Eight essential components
A mixed methods randomised control trial to evaluate the effectiveness of the journey to social inclusion – phase 2 intervention for chronically homeless adults: Study protocol
Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry ACTRN12616000162415 (retrospectively registered 10-February-2016)
Reflection/Commentary on a Past Article: “Verification Strategies for Establishing Reliability and Validity in Qualitative Research”
Critical Ethnography, Cultural Safety, and International Nursing Research
Critical qualitative methodology provides a strategy to examine the human experience and its relationship to power and truth. Cultural safety is a concept that has been applied to nursing education and practice and refers to interactions that acknowledge and respect the unique cultural background of patients. It recognizes power inequities between caregivers who belong to dominant cultures and patients who may belong to oppressed groups. Culture …
The Use of Videoconferencing as a Medium for the Qualitative Interview
Qualitative data collection, especially conducting in-person interviews, presents challenges for researchers whose participants are geographically dispersed. Often alternative means of interviewing using communication technology are necessary. This was true for this focused ethnographic research exploring the experiences of participants who were connected to a particular cultural group by virtue of their similar experience but who were not locate…
Sentinels of Safety: Service Dogs Ensure Safety and Enhance Freedom and Well-Being for Families With Autistic Children
Children with autism might display unpredictable and volatile behavior that places them in considerable physical danger and creates stress for the family. Families of autistic children often have limited freedom and experience difficulty with everyday activities. In this qualitative ethology study, we examined the effect of integrating service dogs into ten families with an autistic child. Data included participant observation, video recordings o…
Symposium Introduction - Issues of Validity: Behavioral Concepts, Their Derivation and Interpretation
Qualitative inquiry that commences with the concept, rather than the phenomenon itself, is subject to violating the tenet of induction, thus is exposed to particular threats of invalidity. In this symposium, using the examples of the concepts of uncertainty, trust, vulnerability and suffering, and interview and videotaped data, we discuss strategies to maintain the inductive thrust, and hence validity, during data analysis. The authors present th…
Symposium Conclusion - Issues of Validity: Behavioral Concepts, Their Derivation and Interpretation
Qualitative inquiry that commences with the concept, rather than the phenomenon itself, is subject to violating the tenet of induction, thus is exposed to particular threats of invalidity. In this symposium, using the examples of the concepts of uncertainty, trust, vulnerability and suffering, and interview and videotaped data, we discuss strategies to maintain the inductive thrust, and hence validity, during data analysis. The authors present th…
The Pink Elephant Paradox (or, Avoiding the Misattribution of Data)
The pink elephant paradox refers to the threat to inductive thinking caused by the difficulty of inadvertently proving the existence of a concept or phenomena just because it overtly or insidiously exists in one's thoughts, leading to misattribution, or miscategorization of data, and thus subverting inductive processes. As Morse and Mitcham discussed in Part I, this is reduced through inductive strategies, including processes of saturation, repli…
Verification Strategies for Establishing Reliability and Validity in Qualitative Research
The rejection of reliability and validity in qualitative inquiry in the 1980s has resulted in an interesting shift for 'ensuring rigor' from the investigator's actions during the course of the research, to the reader or consumer of qualitative inquiry. The emphasis on strategies that are implemented during the research process has been replaced by strategies for evaluating trustworthiness and utility that are implemented once a study is completed…
Verification Strategies for Establishing Reliability and Validity in Qualitative Research
The rejection of reliability and validity in qualitative inquiry in the 1980s has resulted in an interesting shift for 'ensuring rigor' from the investigator's actions during the course of the research, to the reader or consumer of qualitative inquiry. The emphasis on strategies that are implemented during the research process has been replaced by strategies for evaluating trustworthiness and utility that are implemented once a study is completed…
The Use of Videoconferencing as a Medium for the Qualitative Interview
Qualitative data collection, especially conducting in-person interviews, presents challenges for researchers whose participants are geographically dispersed. Often alternative means of interviewing using communication technology are necessary. This was true for this focused ethnographic research exploring the experiences of participants who were connected to a particular cultural group by virtue of their similar experience but who were not locate…
Sentinels of Safety: Service Dogs Ensure Safety and Enhance Freedom and Well-Being for Families With Autistic Children
Children with autism might display unpredictable and volatile behavior that places them in considerable physical danger and creates stress for the family. Families of autistic children often have limited freedom and experience difficulty with everyday activities. In this qualitative ethology study, we examined the effect of integrating service dogs into ten families with an autistic child. Data included participant observation, video recordings o…
Critical Ethnography, Cultural Safety, and International Nursing Research
Critical qualitative methodology provides a strategy to examine the human experience and its relationship to power and truth. Cultural safety is a concept that has been applied to nursing education and practice and refers to interactions that acknowledge and respect the unique cultural background of patients. It recognizes power inequities between caregivers who belong to dominant cultures and patients who may belong to oppressed groups. Culture …
Symposium Conclusion - Issues of Validity: Behavioral Concepts, Their Derivation and Interpretation
Qualitative inquiry that commences with the concept, rather than the phenomenon itself, is subject to violating the tenet of induction, thus is exposed to particular threats of invalidity. In this symposium, using the examples of the concepts of uncertainty, trust, vulnerability and suffering, and interview and videotaped data, we discuss strategies to maintain the inductive thrust, and hence validity, during data analysis. The authors present th…
Symposium Introduction - Issues of Validity: Behavioral Concepts, Their Derivation and Interpretation
Qualitative inquiry that commences with the concept, rather than the phenomenon itself, is subject to violating the tenet of induction, thus is exposed to particular threats of invalidity. In this symposium, using the examples of the concepts of uncertainty, trust, vulnerability and suffering, and interview and videotaped data, we discuss strategies to maintain the inductive thrust, and hence validity, during data analysis. The authors present th…
Symposium Conclusion - Issues of Validity: Behavioral Concepts, Their Derivation and Interpretation
Qualitative inquiry that commences with the concept, rather than the phenomenon itself, is subject to violating the tenet of induction, thus is exposed to particular threats of invalidity. In this symposium, using the examples of the concepts of uncertainty, trust, vulnerability and suffering, and interview and videotaped data, we discuss strategies to maintain the inductive thrust, and hence validity, during data analysis. The authors present th…
The Pink Elephant Paradox (or, Avoiding the Misattribution of Data)
The pink elephant paradox refers to the threat to inductive thinking caused by the difficulty of inadvertently proving the existence of a concept or phenomena just because it overtly or insidiously exists in one's thoughts, leading to misattribution, or miscategorization of data, and thus subverting inductive processes. As Morse and Mitcham discussed in Part I, this is reduced through inductive strategies, including processes of saturation, repli…
Verification Strategies for Establishing Reliability and Validity in Qualitative Research
The rejection of reliability and validity in qualitative inquiry in the 1980s has resulted in an interesting shift for 'ensuring rigor' from the investigator's actions during the course of the research, to the reader or consumer of qualitative inquiry. The emphasis on strategies that are implemented during the research process has been replaced by strategies for evaluating trustworthiness and utility that are implemented once a study is completed…
Sentinels of Safety: Service Dogs Ensure Safety and Enhance Freedom and Well-Being for Families With Autistic Children
Children with autism might display unpredictable and volatile behavior that places them in considerable physical danger and creates stress for the family. Families of autistic children often have limited freedom and experience difficulty with everyday activities. In this qualitative ethology study, we examined the effect of integrating service dogs into ten families with an autistic child. Data included participant observation, video recordings o…
The Use of Videoconferencing as a Medium for the Qualitative Interview
Qualitative data collection, especially conducting in-person interviews, presents challenges for researchers whose participants are geographically dispersed. Often alternative means of interviewing using communication technology are necessary. This was true for this focused ethnographic research exploring the experiences of participants who were connected to a particular cultural group by virtue of their similar experience but who were not locate…
Critical Ethnography, Cultural Safety, and International Nursing Research
Critical qualitative methodology provides a strategy to examine the human experience and its relationship to power and truth. Cultural safety is a concept that has been applied to nursing education and practice and refers to interactions that acknowledge and respect the unique cultural background of patients. It recognizes power inequities between caregivers who belong to dominant cultures and patients who may belong to oppressed groups. Culture …
Reflection/Commentary on a Past Article: “Verification Strategies for Establishing Reliability and Validity in Qualitative Research”
A mixed methods randomised control trial to evaluate the effectiveness of the journey to social inclusion – phase 2 intervention for chronically homeless adults: Study protocol
Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry ACTRN12616000162415 (retrospectively registered 10-February-2016)
An Interpretive Description of Sociocultural Influences on Diabetes Self-Management Support in Nigeria
The purpose of this study is to explore how Nigeria's social and cultural environment influences professional diabetes self-management support practices. This interpretive descriptive study is based on two diabetes clinics in southeastern Nigeria. Nineteen healthcare providers, including nurses, were purposely selected and engaged in participant observation and interviews. Concurrent data generation and analysis facilitated iterative constant com…
A case study unpacking the collaborative research process: Eight essential components
Experiencing Trauma During or Before Pregnancy: Qualitative Secondary Analysis After Two Disasters
Nigerian Health Care Providers and Diabetes Self-Management Support: Their Perspectives and Practices
Nigeria struggles to reframe its traditional acute-care disease approach to health care to accommodate rising needs for chronic disease care. This interpretive descriptive study explored Nigerian healthcare providers' (HCPs) perspectives, experiences, and practices related to self-management support (SMS). Observational and experiential data were gathered from 19 HCPs at two urban hospitals in Southeastern Nigeria (seven physicians, four nurses, …
Developing a Quality Improvement Framework to Enhance the Health System User Experience for Individuals Living With Type 1 Diabetes: The Reshape T1D Study
INTRODUCTION: User experience design aims to create products and services that are accessible, usable, and enjoyable. The Reshape T1D study aims to apply these principles to understand how individuals living with T1D interact with and experience healthcare to inform T1D clinical quality improvement. METHODS: Using a community-based participatory research design, we involved four patients and four clinicians as co-researchers throughout the resear…
Time, diagnosis, and medication: The institutional circuit of billing in community mental health care
The Contributions of Institutional Ethnography to Addressing Mental Health as a Public Health Crisis
Mental illness represents a substantial global public health crisis, marked by high prevalence, significant economic costs, and profound impacts on individuals' lives. Institutional ethnography (IE) is an approach to qualitative public health research that offers a methodologically rigorous way of addressing complex social problems. IE differs from many other qualitative research methods in its materialist, social ontology, which guides researche…
Do You Understand What I Am Saying?”: Exploring Language Practices in Describing Life With Diabetes
Language is a vehicle to express and defend one's desired identity by employing socially normative strategies to promote and protect a preferred identity. In this qualitative secondary analysis, we explored the language practices in 30 interviews with 15 adults with diabetes who use insulin pumps. Inductive thematic analysis guided by Identity Process Theory illuminated how participants expressed and defended their preferred identities. Language …
Psychology (13 works) · Qualitative research (10 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Nursing (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Political science (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Health care (5 works) · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics (5 works)