Margarete Sandelowski
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 106904 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Margarete Sandelowski |
| PRENOMES | Margarete |
| SOBRENOME | Sandelowski |
| ASSINATURA | SANDELOWSKI M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 51 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 533 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 51 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1982 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2018 |
| ÍNDICE H | 13 |
A Reluctant but Necessary Rebuttal to a Rebuttal
Parent‐to‐Child Transition in Managing Cystic Fibrosis
Although parents and children must adhere to five primary treatments for cystic fibrosis (CF), and their roles transition over time, the scope of CF studies often has been limited to one treatment regimen or to children within a specified age range. The purpose of this mixed research synthesis study is to integrate findings from qualitative and quantitative studies addressing the transition of CF management from parent to child, as well as factor…
Timing of Translation in Cross-Language Qualitative Research
Although there is increased understanding of language barriers in cross-language studies, the point at which language transformation processes are applied in research is inconsistently reported, or treated as a minor issue. Differences in translation timeframes raise methodological issues related to the material to be translated, as well as for the process of data analysis and interpretation. In this article we address methodological issues relat…
Writing Usable Qualitative Health Research Findings
Scholars in diverse health-related disciplines and specialty fields of practice routinely promote qualitative research as an essential component of intervention and implementation programs of research and of a comprehensive evidence base for practice. Remarkably little attention, however, has been paid to the most important element of qualitative studies-the findings in reports of those studies-and specifically to enhancing the accessibility and …
Mapping the Mixed Methods–Mixed Research Synthesis Terrain
Mixed methods-mixed research synthesis is a form of systematic review in which the findings of qualitative and quantitative studies are integrated via qualitative and/or quantitative methods. Although methodological advances have been made, efforts to differentiate research synthesis methods have been too focused on methods and not focused enough on the defining logics of research synthesis-each of which may be operationalized in different ways-o…
The Nurse's Medication Day
The medication administration stage of the medication-use process is especially vulnerable to error because errors are least likely to be caught before reaching the patient. Medication administration, however, remains poorly understood. In this article we describe medication administration as observed in an ethnographic study conducted on one medical unit and one surgical unit. A central finding was that medication administration entailed a compl…
A systematic review comparing antiretroviral adherence descriptive and intervention studies conducted in the USA
On Quantitizing
Quantitizing, commonly understood to refer to the numerical translation, transformation, or conversion of qualitative data, has become a staple of mixed methods research. Typically glossed are the foundational assumptions, judgments, and compromises involved in converting disparate data sets into each other and whether such conversions advance inquiry. Among these assumptions are that qualitative and quantitative data constitute two kinds of data…
Making Sense of Qualitative and Quantitative Findings in Mixed Research Synthesis Studies
The synthesis of qualitative and quantitative research findings is increasingly promoted, but many of the conceptual and methodological issues it raises have yet to be fully understood and resolved. In this article, we describe how we handled issues encountered in efforts to synthesize the findings in forty-two reports of studies of antiretroviral adherence in HIV-positive women in the course of an ongoing study to develop methods to synthesize q…
Using qualitative metasummary to synthesize qualitative and quantitative descriptive findings
The new imperative in the health disciplines to be more methodologically inclusive has generated a growing interest in mixed research synthesis, or the integration of qualitative and quantitative research findings. Qualitative metasummary is a quantitatively oriented aggregation of qualitative findings originally developed to accommodate the distinctive features of qualitative surveys. Yet these findings are similar in form and mode of production…
Comparability work and the management of difference in research synthesis studies
The gender ratio imbalance and its relationship to risk of HIV/Aids among African American women at historically black colleges and universities
African American women are at increased risk of HIV transmission through heterosexual contact. HIV/AIDS is the leading cause of death among African American women between 25 to 34 years of age, and many of these women were likely infected while in college. Four focus groups were conducted with African American students attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in order to learn about the college dating environment and how it …
From Synthesis to Script
Although qualitative research synthesis has secured a place in the evidence-based practice movement, little effort has as yet been directed toward translating the results into material form for practice. The authors transformed a qualitative research synthesis of findings pertaining to stigma in HIV-positive women into a script and DVD. The process of transformation entailed bringing together the norms and imperatives of scientific research, clin…
Tenerlos En La Casa
The environment has been found to be critical to the well-being of patients with dementia. The purpose of this study was to describe strategies Colombian caregivers used in the home to manage the care of relatives with dementia. Grounded theory techniques were used. Interviews were conducted in Medellín, Colombia, with 18 primary caregivers and 2 health care professionals. Participant observations were conducted in caregivers’ support groups and …
Stigma in HIV‐Positive Women
Purpose: To present a metasynthesis of qualitative findings on stigma in HIV‐positive women. Method: Metasummary and metasynthesis techniques were used to integrate findings on stigma in 93 reports of qualitative studies conducted between 1991 and 2002 with a total of 1,780 women, mostly from minority groups. Findings: Both perceived and enacted stigma were pervasive in the lives of HIV‐positive women. HIV‐related stigma was intensified in women …
Using Qualitative Research
A renewed urgency has emerged in the qualitative health research community concerning the utility of qualitative research. This urgency is the result of several converging trends in health care research, including the elevation of practical over basic knowledge, proliferation of qualitative health research studies, and the rise of evidence-based practice as a paradigm and methodology for health care. Diverse conceptualizations of use and users ex…
Qualitative Metasynthesis
In an era of pressure toward evidence-based health care, we are witnessing a new enthusiasm for qualitative metasynthesis as an enterprise distinct from conventional literature reviews, secondary analyses, and the many other scholarly endeavors with which it is sometimes confused. This article represents the reflections of five scholars, each ofwhom has authored a distinct qualitative metasynthesis strategy. By providing the reader a glimpse into…
Classifying the Findings in Qualitative Studies
A key task in conducting research integration studies is determining what features to account for in the research reports eligible for inclusion. In the course of a methodological project, the authors found a remarkable uniformity in the way findings were produced and presented, no matter what the stated or implied frame of reference or method. They describe a typology of findings, which they developed to bypass the discrepancy between method cla…
Writing the Proposal for a Qualitative Research Methodology Project
Writing the proposal for a qualitative research methodology study is a double challenge because of the emergent nature of qualitative research design and because a methodology study entails describing a process to produce a process. How the authors addressed this challenge is shown in the annotated text of the grant proposal-'Analytic Techniques for Qualitative Metasynthesis'-funded by the National Institute of Nursing Research. Appealing qualita…
Living the Golden Rule
Giving is receiving, and receiving is giving. This is the key finding from interviews conducted with 28 African American women and men with cancer who were active participants in dynamic relationships characterized by both giving and receiving. These participants engaged in reciprocal relationships varying in the number of persons involved, types of resources exchanged, and timing of exchange. Findings suggest the need to reconceptualize social s…
Sample Reporting in Qualitative Studies of Women with HIV Infection
A key means by which readers judge the validity of both qualitative and quantitative research findings is to consider how well these findings are supported by the sample from which they were drawn. Yet as the authors discovered in the course of a systematic review of qualitative studies of women with HIV infection, relevant features of these samples are not always adequately reported or appropriately presented. Factors impeding the creation of a …
Finding the Findings in Qualitative Studies
Purpose: To describe the challenges of finding the findings in qualitative studies. Method: Review of literature on representation in qualitative research and analysis of 99 reports of qualitative studies of women with HIV infection. Findings: Factors complicating finding the findings in qualitative studies include varied reporting styles, misrepresentation of data and analytic procedures as findings, misuse of quotes and theory, and lack of clar…
Say Little, Do Much
When it comes to professional nursing, there are many blind spots. Indeed, when it comes to serious scholarship about nursing, it can be argued that invisibility and erasure are metaphors for nursing. Say Little, Do Much addresses a "blind spot" (p. 2) that has made invisible the contribution of religious nurses to the professionalization of nursing. Concentrating on vowed Christian women in Australia, Britain, and North America (the book does no…
Reembodying Qualitative Inquiry
Although there are four large categories of research data, qualitative researchers have tended to emphasize interview data. Naive views of the interview, disembodied views of participant observation, and a virtual neglect of the material world have led to qualitative work that is not as full-bodied as it should be. Survey and qualitative researchers often share the realist's assumption that interview responses index some external reality of facts…
Reading Qualitative Studies
In this article, the authors hope to shift the debate in the practice disciplines concerning quality in qualitative research from a preoccupation with epistemic criteria toward consideration of aesthetic and rhetorical concerns. They see epistemic criteria as inevitably including aesthetic and rhetorical concerns. The authors argue here for a reconceptualization of the research report as a literary technology that mediates between researcher/writ…
Classifying the Findings in Qualitative Studies
A key task in conducting research integration studies is determining what features to account for in the research reports eligible for inclusion. In the course of a methodological project, the authors found a remarkable uniformity in the way findings were produced and presented, no matter what the stated or implied frame of reference or method. They describe a typology of findings, which they developed to bypass the discrepancy between method cla…
On Quantitizing
Quantitizing, commonly understood to refer to the numerical translation, transformation, or conversion of qualitative data, has become a staple of mixed methods research. Typically glossed are the foundational assumptions, judgments, and compromises involved in converting disparate data sets into each other and whether such conversions advance inquiry. Among these assumptions are that qualitative and quantitative data constitute two kinds of data…
Reembodying Qualitative Inquiry
Although there are four large categories of research data, qualitative researchers have tended to emphasize interview data. Naive views of the interview, disembodied views of participant observation, and a virtual neglect of the material world have led to qualitative work that is not as full-bodied as it should be. Survey and qualitative researchers often share the realist's assumption that interview responses index some external reality of facts…
Separate, but Less Unequal
Fetal ultrasonography has made women's and men's relationship to the fetus more equal. Drawing on information obtained from multiple conjoint interviews with 62 childbearing couples, I suggest that although women and men are both advantaged by fetal ultrasonography, expectant fathers' experience of the fetus is always enhanced, whereas pregnant women's experience may also be attenuated. For men, fetal ultrasonography is like a prosthetic device: …
Reading Qualitative Studies
In this article, the authors hope to shift the debate in the practice disciplines concerning quality in qualitative research from a preoccupation with epistemic criteria toward consideration of aesthetic and rhetorical concerns. They see epistemic criteria as inevitably including aesthetic and rhetorical concerns. The authors argue here for a reconceptualization of the research report as a literary technology that mediates between researcher/writ…
Writing Usable Qualitative Health Research Findings
Scholars in diverse health-related disciplines and specialty fields of practice routinely promote qualitative research as an essential component of intervention and implementation programs of research and of a comprehensive evidence base for practice. Remarkably little attention, however, has been paid to the most important element of qualitative studies-the findings in reports of those studies-and specifically to enhancing the accessibility and …
Compelled to Try
In this article I use literature from the medical and social sciences, as well as interviews with women and couples with fertility impairments, to argue against locating the compelling character of conceptive technology exclusively in pronatalist or patriarchal agendas. I suggest that the attraction to this technology derives not only from these broader cultural values but also from the way that the technology itself works (or does not work). Stu…
Timing of Translation in Cross-Language Qualitative Research
Although there is increased understanding of language barriers in cross-language studies, the point at which language transformation processes are applied in research is inconsistently reported, or treated as a minor issue. Differences in translation timeframes raise methodological issues related to the material to be translated, as well as for the process of data analysis and interpretation. In this article we address methodological issues relat…
Mapping the Mixed Methods–Mixed Research Synthesis Terrain
Mixed methods-mixed research synthesis is a form of systematic review in which the findings of qualitative and quantitative studies are integrated via qualitative and/or quantitative methods. Although methodological advances have been made, efforts to differentiate research synthesis methods have been too focused on methods and not focused enough on the defining logics of research synthesis-each of which may be operationalized in different ways-o…
Healing fictions
Writing the Proposal for a Qualitative Research Methodology Project
Writing the proposal for a qualitative research methodology study is a double challenge because of the emergent nature of qualitative research design and because a methodology study entails describing a process to produce a process. How the authors addressed this challenge is shown in the annotated text of the grant proposal-'Analytic Techniques for Qualitative Metasynthesis'-funded by the National Institute of Nursing Research. Appealing qualita…
Failures of Volition
Living the life
This paper addresses the paradoxes of infertility and the explanatory models infertile couples construct to resolve them. The analysis is based on multiple interviews with 53 infertile couples and a comparison group of 10 couples with no fertility impairments in the process of achieving parenthood through pregnancy and adoption, and single interviews with three infertile couples one to two years after having their last child. Couples defined infe…
From Synthesis to Script
Although qualitative research synthesis has secured a place in the evidence-based practice movement, little effort has as yet been directed toward translating the results into material form for practice. The authors transformed a qualitative research synthesis of findings pertaining to stigma in HIV-positive women into a script and DVD. The process of transformation entailed bringing together the norms and imperatives of scientific research, clin…
Fault Lines
Making Sense of Qualitative and Quantitative Findings in Mixed Research Synthesis Studies
The synthesis of qualitative and quantitative research findings is increasingly promoted, but many of the conceptual and methodological issues it raises have yet to be fully understood and resolved. In this article, we describe how we handled issues encountered in efforts to synthesize the findings in forty-two reports of studies of antiretroviral adherence in HIV-positive women in the course of an ongoing study to develop methods to synthesize q…
In the Field with the Beck Depression Inventory
Qualitative methods are typically and formally used only in the earliest phases of instrument development to generate items. Once these items are generated, instrument development usually then moves into the testing phases, where quantitative methods prevail. The achievement of psychometric credibility is presumed to depend largely on quantitative measures of reliability and validity. Or if qualitative methods are employed, their use is masked, u…
Channel of Desire
This article describes couples' experiences with fetal ultrasonography as a type of technology transfer. Framing information obtained from multiple interviews conducted with 62 childbearing couples within Ihde's conceptualization of a cultural hermeneutics of technology, the author argues that fetal ultrasonography has different meanings in the use-contexts of obstetric practice and parenthood. Although fetal ultrasonography is typically located …
The clock has been ticking, the calendar pages turning, and we are still waiting
Sample Reporting in Qualitative Studies of Women with HIV Infection
A key means by which readers judge the validity of both qualitative and quantitative research findings is to consider how well these findings are supported by the sample from which they were drawn. Yet as the authors discovered in the course of a systematic review of qualitative studies of women with HIV infection, relevant features of these samples are not always adequately reported or appropriately presented. Factors impeding the creation of a …
A Reluctant but Necessary Rebuttal to a Rebuttal
Comparability work and the management of difference in research synthesis studies
Somewhere Out There
This article describes the process of parental claiming expressed in multiple interviews conducted with 35 infertile couples waiting to adopt a child. Parental claiming is the special kind of emotional and intellectual work that adopting couples do prior to placement to make someone else's child "somewhere out there" their own. It involves creating an object to claim, undermining the primacy of blood ties, and transforming someone else's child in…
Relinquishing Infertility
Although infertility has been described as an experience with long-term implications for the well-being of couples affected by it, few studies have examined any part of the aftermath of infertility. This article describes the ways in which infertility shapes the pregnancy course in couples who have struggled to conceive. The findings are drawn from 162 interviews conducted with 60 couples (41 infertile and a comparison group of 19 fertile) expect…
The Nurse's Medication Day
The medication administration stage of the medication-use process is especially vulnerable to error because errors are least likely to be caught before reaching the patient. Medication administration, however, remains poorly understood. In this article we describe medication administration as observed in an ethnographic study conducted on one medical unit and one surgical unit. A central finding was that medication administration entailed a compl…
Women, Health, and Choice
Pain, Pleasure, and American Childbirth
Journal Article Pain, Pleasure, and American Childbirth: From the Twilight Sleep to the Read Method, 1914–1960. By Margarete Sandelowski. (Westport: Greenwood, 1984. xix + 152 pp. Table, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $27.95.) Get access Judy Barrett Litoff Judy Barrett Litoff Bryant College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 71, Issue 4, March 1985, Pages 890–891…
Sophie's choice
Sophie's choice"; provides a useful metaphor for understanding the continuing plight of the infertile. Infertile couples are increasingly viewed not only as choosing controversial medical treatments to cure their infertility, but also as having chosen the dysfunction itself. A combination of factors, including heightened expectations for reproductive control, the association between infertility and women's and sexual liberation, and medical needs…
Without child
Research findings from a study of 48 women's experiences of infertility suggest that cultural experience may be a useful paradigm for understanding the complexities of infertility. Concepts of culture are presented with the women's descriptions of their experiences, and the advantages of cultural experience over other paradigms of infertility, together with research implications, are discussed
Reproduction, Medicine and the Socialist State . Alena Heitlinger The Regulation of Sexuality
Fault Lines
Living the life
This paper addresses the paradoxes of infertility and the explanatory models infertile couples construct to resolve them. The analysis is based on multiple interviews with 53 infertile couples and a comparison group of 10 couples with no fertility impairments in the process of achieving parenthood through pregnancy and adoption, and single interviews with three infertile couples one to two years after having their last child. Couples defined infe…
Failures of Volition
Telling Stories
There is a new attention across disciplines to narrative knowing—the impulse to story life events into order and meaning. In this paper, narrative is presented as a framework for understanding the subject and interview data in qualitative research. Examples of narrative approaches are offered, narrative analyses are contrasted with other kinds of qualitative analyses, and truth in narratives is considered.
Amniocentesis in the context of infertility
The encounter with amniocentesis compels infertile couples to experience again the mix of adversity, uncertainty, and hope characterizing both infertility and prenatal testing. Findings from open-ended interviews of 38 couples, 25 infertile and 13 fertile, participating in an ongoing longitudinal field study of infertile childbearing and adopting couples suggest that amniocentesis both reprises elements of the infertility experience and interrupt…
The clock has been ticking, the calendar pages turning, and we are still waiting
Compelled to Try
In this article I use literature from the medical and social sciences, as well as interviews with women and couples with fertility impairments, to argue against locating the compelling character of conceptive technology exclusively in pronatalist or patriarchal agendas. I suggest that the attraction to this technology derives not only from these broader cultural values but also from the way that the technology itself works (or does not work). Stu…
Relinquishing Infertility
Although infertility has been described as an experience with long-term implications for the well-being of couples affected by it, few studies have examined any part of the aftermath of infertility. This article describes the ways in which infertility shapes the pregnancy course in couples who have struggled to conceive. The findings are drawn from 162 interviews conducted with 60 couples (41 infertile and a comparison group of 19 fertile) expect…
With Child in Mind
Sandelowski retells the stories of couples who want to have children, but cannot. In their own words, the couples candidly discuss what it means to be infertile and how infertility ultimately affects their views of themselves, their values, their children, and their interactions with others. Information from more than 500 intensive interviews with women and couples forms the core of With Child in Mind
Somewhere Out There
This article describes the process of parental claiming expressed in multiple interviews conducted with 35 infertile couples waiting to adopt a child. Parental claiming is the special kind of emotional and intellectual work that adopting couples do prior to placement to make someone else's child "somewhere out there" their own. It involves creating an object to claim, undermining the primacy of blood ties, and transforming someone else's child in…
Focus on qualitative methods . The use of quotes in qualitative research
Quoted words and phrases from research participants are a common feature of qualitative research reports. Quoting is a process that requires the achievement of the proper balance between the obligations of scientific reporting and the taking of artistic license. Quotes are used to support researcher claims, illustrate ideas, illuminate experience, evoke emotion, and provoke response. Quoting involves researchers in acts of choosing that lie in th…
Beyond couvade
Thirty‐six couples with a history of infertility reported their physical, positive emotional, and negative emotional symptoms during pregnancy. The women experienced more physical symptoms than did the men. Both the men and women experienced second‐trimester decreases in negative emotional symptoms and third‐trimester increases in negative emotional symptoms. The women's physical symptoms also showed a second‐trimester dip. Each symptom type was …
Channel of Desire
This article describes couples' experiences with fetal ultrasonography as a type of technology transfer. Framing information obtained from multiple interviews conducted with 62 childbearing couples within Ihde's conceptualization of a cultural hermeneutics of technology, the author argues that fetal ultrasonography has different meanings in the use-contexts of obstetric practice and parenthood. Although fetal ultrasonography is typically located …
Separate, but Less Unequal
Fetal ultrasonography has made women's and men's relationship to the fetus more equal. Drawing on information obtained from multiple conjoint interviews with 62 childbearing couples, I suggest that although women and men are both advantaged by fetal ultrasonography, expectant fathers' experience of the fetus is always enhanced, whereas pregnant women's experience may also be attenuated. For men, fetal ultrasonography is like a prosthetic device: …
Qualitative analysis
One of the most paralyzing moments in conducting qualitative research is beginning analysis, when researchers must first look at their data in order to see what they should look for in their data. Although temporally and conceptually overlapping processes, data analysis should be distinguished from interpretation. Practical suggestions for beginning analysis include getting a sense of the whole, extracting the facts, identifying key topics or maj…
Sample size in qualitative research
A common misconception about sampling in qualitative research is that numbers are unimportant in ensuring the adequacy of a sampling strategy. Yet, simple sizes may be too small to support claims of having achieved either informational redundancy or theoretical saturation, or too large to permit the deep, case‐oriented analysis that is the raison‐d'etre of qualitative inquiry. Determining adequate sample size in qualitative research is ultimately…
Healing fictions
Reproduction, technology, and rights
Whatever happened to qualitative description?
The general view of descriptive research as a lower level form of inquiry has influenced some researchers conducting qualitative research to claim methods they are really not using and not to claim the method they are using: namely, qualitative description. Qualitative descriptive studies have as their goal a comprehensive summary of events in the everyday terms of those events. Researchers conducting qualitative descriptive studies stay close to…
Real qualitative researchers do not count
Two myths about qualitative research are that real qualitative researchers do not count and cannot count. These antinumber myths have led to the underutilization of numbers in qualitative research and to the simplistic view of qualitative research as non‐ or antinumber. Yet numbers are integral to qualitative research, as meaning depends, in part, on number. As in quantitative research, numbers are used in qualitative research to establish the si…
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