This is a screenshot from Dedoose. I have been working for some time with a group to put together a qualitative meta study. One of the reasons this has taken a long time was my determination to use Dedoose to facilitate all of the reporting. As of yesterday evening, I was pretty close to done with data entry. I called this post pt. ? because I am not certain how many times I mentioned this before - or for how long I thought this was 'almost' finished. The shot shows several 'codes' - which are based on secondary analysis of published or presented research reports - and the proportion of sources containing that code (or, more accurately, sources in which the researchers assigned the code) that were rated as either fair/poor quality or good or better quality. This is only one of many reporting options that I can produce because I assertively used the descriptor function, and hopefully, wisely used the coding function. Each thing was first coded to the source which facilitates calculating proportion of total codes and codes by category (although frankly Dedoose would identify source for the most part anyway, but I had a feeling that I might want to be able to plug this information into a descriptor report).
One of the most useful things I did was to create a list of what I wanted to be able to do. This allowed me to see exactly what descriptors (consider those demographics) and what codes (I had some a priori codes to rely on from a previous analysis of a smaller sample) I wanted to use. I also put in some things I thought might be interesting - like how many articles included some graphical version of a conceptual or process model. The other thing the list allowed me to do was to get over being overwhelmed and focus on one or a few things at a time. It was still a complex and draining project, even given that I had a lot of assistance. One thing I did not do, but think would be interesting, was to code the recommendations. I have a theory that they same things continue to be recommended but not necessarily acted upon.
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AuthorI am Sheryl L. Chatfield, Ph.D, C.T.R.S. I am a member of the faculty in the College of Public Health at Kent State University. I also Co-coordinate the Graduate Certificate in Qualitative Research and I am a member of the Design Innovation Team at Kent State. Archives
February 2024
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