Image via WikipediaToday our qualitative research brown bag featured Pia Markkanen from the Department of Work Environment at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell. Pia made a presentation on the mixed method study that became the Journal of Occupational Environmental Medicine (JOEM) article--"There's No Place Like Home: A Qualitative Study of the Working Conditions of Home Health Care Providers". It was fascinating!Pia described the qualitative to quantitative to qualitative interactions of the study like a dance. Project SHARRP,as she called it, Safe Homecare and Risk Reduction for Providers, was funded by National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Like it's name, Project Sharrp focused on accidents with sharp instruments in home health care and the issues related to blood borne pathagens.
Her audience of qualitative researchers was interested in all the nitty-gritty detail, from how she selected participants and gained informed consent to the development of focus group questions and integration with quantitative data. For more informationon this excellent study, contact Pia!
In the course of this work, Pia has become a daily user of NVivo. We didn't get a chance to look into her project, but she showed how coding was reflected in the article's charts, and she shared an NVivo model with us.
Our last brown bag of the Fall 2011 semester will take place on Tuesday, December 13 from 12:30-1:30 pm. Steve Tello and Yi Yang from Management will present. We will be meeting in Southwick 240 on North Campus.
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