Qualitative Research into Mental Health: Reflections on Epistemology
Qualitative Research into Mental Health: Reflections on Epistemology
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DOI：
10.1108/13619322200900006
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发表时间：
2009-01-01
影响因子：
1.2
通讯作者：
Tischler, Victoria
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作者：
Joseph, Stephen;Beer, Charlotte;Tischler, Victoria
2005年，诺丁汉大学心理社会健康研究小组(QMiPHR)成立，作为一个论坛，将对定性方法感兴趣的学者、研究人员和实践者聚集在一起。该小组为营养学、精神病学、心理学、社会工作和社会学的同事提供了一个论坛，供他们讨论定性研究如何能够有助于理解心理健康和发展循证治疗的问题。作为一个群体，我们问自己，关于精神健康中定性方法的使用，我们的立场是什么。虽然我们一致认为定性研究在精神健康研究中很重要，但我们的讨论揭示了关于精神健康定性研究意味着什么的潜在哲学立场的一系列观点。这篇论文的目的是概述我们的讨论和我们的观点，即随着定性方法越来越被广泛接受，它们在很大程度上已被主流的医学研究模式所同化。在这篇文章中，我们呼吁研究人员重新参与关于定性询问的作用和目的的哲学讨论，因为它适用于心理健康，并呼吁从业者和决策者意识到支撑研究的隐性价值。
In 2005, the Qualitative Methods in Psychosocial Health Research Group (QMiPHR) at the University of Nottingham was established as a forum to bring together academics, researchers and practitioners with an interest in qualitative methods. The group has provided colleagues in nutrition, psychiatry, psychology, social work and sociology with a forum for discussion around the question of how qualitative research is able to contribute to understanding mental health and the development of evidence-based treatment. As a group, we asked ourselves where we stood in relation to the use of qualitative methods in mental health. While we are unified in our view that qualitative research is important and under-utilised in mental health research, our discussions uncovered a range of views on the underlying philosophical stance of what it means to be a qualitative researcher in mental health. The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of our discussions and our view that as qualitative approaches have become more widely accepted they have largely been assimilated within the mainstream 'medical model' of research. In this paper, we call for researchers to re-engage with the philosophical discussion on the role and purpose of qualitative enquiry as it applies to mental health, and for practitioners and decision-makers to be aware of the implicit values underpinning research.