Etnografisch onderzoek onder collega’s; voortdurende spanning tussen betrokkenheid en distantie

Dit artikel gaat over de spanning tussen ‘betrokkenheid’ en ‘distantie’ verbonden aan participerende observatie binnen een onderzoeksproject dat wordt uitgevoerd door collega- onderzoekers

Maximising the impact of qualitative research in feasibility studies for randomised controlled trials: guidance for researchers

Feasibility studies are increasingly undertaken in preparation for randomised controlled trials in order to explore uncertainties and enable trialists to optimise the intervention or the conduct of the trial. Qualitative research can be used to examine and address key uncertainties prior to a full trial. We present guidance that researchers, research funders and reviewers may wish to consider when assessing or undertaking qualitative research within feasibility studies for randomised controlled trials. The guidance consists of 16 items within five domains: research questions, data collection, analysis, teamwork and reporting. Appropriate and well conducted qualitative research can make an important contribution to feasibility studies for randomised controlled trials. This guidance may help researchers to consider the full range of contributions that qualitative research can make in relation to their particular trial. The guidance may also help researchers and others to reflect on the utility of such qualitative research in practice, so that trial teams can decide when and how best to use these approaches in future studies

Pragmatic Trials; The Mutual Shaping of Research and Primary Health Care Practice: An ethnographic analysis of the role the pragmatic trial fulfils in bridging the science-practice gap

This doctoral thesis evolved around the issue of how to evaluate the effectiveness of health promotion and prevention such that it matches the criteria for sound scientific research and at the same time produces knowledge that can more easily be embedded in routine medical practice. In other words, this thesis concerned the issue of how to bridge the science-practice gap in complex public health settings. In this doctoral thesis one example of an evaluation methodology has been analysed that tried to accomplish this. An ethnographic case study has been performed of the Quattro Study: a pragmatic trial for evaluating the effectiveness of multidisciplinary patient care teams for the prevention of cardiovascular risk in primary health care practice in deprived n