MCQ Module 3

Qualitative research can help improve policy and practice by:

• Increasing our understanding how individuals and communities perceive health, manage their own health and make decisions related to health service usage

• Increasing our understandings of the culture of communities and of health units in relation to implementing change and overcoming barriers to the use of new knowledge and techniques

• Informing planners and providers in relation to how service users experience health and illness and the health system

• Evaluating components and activities of health services that cannot be measured in quantitative outcomes (such as health promotion and community development)

• All of the above

Ethnography is an example of:

• Epistemology

• Methodology

• Theoretical perspective

• Discourse analysis

Which of the following is a method of data collection often used in qualitative research?

• Interview

• Focus group interviews

• Observation

• Reflective journaling

• All of the above

Methodology:

• Informs the paradigm

• Describes the theory and assumptions behind how research should be conducted

• Is the specific technical process by which researchers collect their data

• All of the above

Phenomenology:

• Requires the researcher to engage deeply with the researched in order to identify their knowledge needs

• Attempts to investigate and research the impact of culture on everyday life

• Is primarily concerned with making the subjective meanings people ascribe to lived phenomena understood by engaging with the person to better understand from that persons perspective

Critical appraisal within the JBI approach to qualitative systematic reviews:

• Uses an instrument that is based on establishing credibility and dependability rather than preferencing usability

• Examines congruity between the core components of qualitative research

• Facilitates deeper understanding and engagement with studies and increases standardization and consistency across reviews

• All of the above

A common method of qualitative data analysis, used across a variety of methodologies, is:

• Phenomenological analysis

• Action analysis

• Grounded Analysis

• Thematic analysis

The sequence of meta-aggregation in a JBI review follows the schema:

• Assign categories > synthesis > aggregation

• Extract findings > assign categories > synthesis/aggregation

• Extract findings > synthesis > assign categories

• Synthesize findings > assign categories > extract an aggregation

A mixed methods systematic review:

• Applies the principles of mixed methods research to the review process

• Focuses only on mixed methods primary research studies

• For quantitative primary studies uses a mix of fixed effects and standard effects models during meta-analysis

• All of the above

Considering ‘Types of studies’ for inclusion, Umbrella Reviews include:

• Randomized controlled trials

• Cohort studies

• Systematic Reviews

• Phenomenological studies