'I just pretend it's completely normal': strategies for surviving data collection when researching menarche
| Autor: | Dianne K. Kieren, Patricia A. Donahue, Janice M. Morse |
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| Rok vydání: | 1990 |
| Předmět: |
Adolescent
Job description Anxiety Adaptation Psychological medicine Humans Confidentiality Child Students General Nursing Medical education Data collection Nursing research Data Collection Principal (computer security) Missing data Research Personnel Nursing Research Job Description Female medicine.symptom Menopause Psychology Social psychology Attitude to Health Anonymity |
| Zdroj: | Applied nursing research : ANR. 3(1) |
| ISSN: | 0897-1897 |
| Popis: | WrHEN CONDUCTING RESEARCH, it is the principal investigator's responsibility to design the study, plan strategies for data collection, analyze data, and prepare the reports. Lacking attention, but most crucial to the success of the entire project, is the actual collection of data. Typically, the data collector is the "hands" of the principal investigator. Yet, apart from specific instructions for training interviewers, there is a paucity of information on the role of data collectors. The preparation for the role of data collectors, the relationship between characteristics of the data collectors and the response of the subjects, and how these influence the quality and amount of data obtained are the topics of discussion. The significance of the role of the data collector was seen in experiences associated with a recent research project conducted in a large western Canadian city to measure adolescent girls' attitudes toward menarche. Questionnaires were administered to 1,873 girls in Grades 6, 7, 8, and 9 from 49 randomly selected schools (Morse, Kieren, Bottorff, & Donahue, in preparation). The study addressed a sensitive topic and involved extraordinary precautions to provide privacy and to maintain anonymity. Strategies for reducing researcher anxiety and subject anxiety, significant topics when collecting data for any project, are most fruitful when subject cooperation is increased, reliability and validity of data are enhanced, and missing data minimized. Using the menarche project as an example, this article will address strategies to enhance data collection in these three areas. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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