Morgan-Trimmer, Sarah and Wood, Fiona  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7397-4074
2016.
Ethnographic methods for process evaluations of complex health behaviour interventions.
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10.1186/s13063-016-1340-2
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Abstract
This article outlines the contribution that ethnography could make to process evaluations for trials of complex health-behaviour interventions. Process evaluations are increasingly used to examine how health-behaviour interventions operate to produce outcomes and often employ qualitative methods to do this. Ethnography shares commonalities with the qualitative methods currently used in health-behaviour evaluations but has a distinctive approach over and above these methods. It is an overlooked methodology in trials of complex health-behaviour interventions that has much to contribute to the understanding of how interventions work. These benefits are discussed here with respect to three strengths of ethnographic methodology: (1) producing valid data, (2) understanding data within social contexts, and (3) building theory productively. The limitations of ethnography within the context of process evaluations are also discussed.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Date Type: | Publication |
| Status: | Published |
| Schools: | Schools > Medicine |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > R Medicine (General) |
| Additional Information: | PDF uploaded in accordance with publisher's policies at http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/1745-6215/ (accessed 14.4.16). |
| Publisher: | BioMed Central |
| ISSN: | 1745-6215 |
| Date of First Compliant Deposit: | 13 April 2016 |
| Date of Acceptance: | 6 April 2016 |
| Last Modified: | 04 May 2023 19:04 |
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/89189 |
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