Raewyn Bassett

• PhD
• Researcher at Dalhousie University

Provides examples of a number of techniques for analysing and "digging deeper" in qualitative data.

Purpose: To describe the approach used by a physiotherapist who led a rehabilitation programme for injured members of the military with chronic low back pain designed to enhance self-efficacy and self-management skills. Method: This in-depth qualitative study used audio- and video-recorded data from interviews and field observations. Using an in...

The past decade has seen the development of an increasing number of techniques to appraise, summarize and assess published study findings. From systematic to synthesis to scoping reviews, these techniques have contributed to evidence-informed policy and practice. We outline a novel method developed to address the limitations of scoping review desig...

The persistence of health inequities is reflected in repeated calls for intersectoral collaboration on the social determinants of health, specifically through public policy action. Yet, how to do intersectoral collaboration specifically for policy action toward health equity is articulated rather scarcely in the scientific literature. With this sco...

The Canadian public health sector's foundational values of social justice and equity, and its mandate to promote population health, make it ideally situated to take a strong lead in addressing persistent and unacceptable inequities in health between socially disadvantaged, marginalized or excluded groups and the general population. There is current...

As a researcher the author began to reflect on her role on a team project as she and her colleagues developed a research design and Letter of Intent (LOI) for submission to a funding agency. The area of research interest was interprofessional collaboration. The author and her colleagues intended to observe a team of health professionals collaborati...

Background: Previous work has identified the importance of art in health and healing but little has been published on specific responses from artistic populations. Aims: The aim of this study was to explore the experience of a group of people living with chronic pain who were able to continue to create art in the face of pain. Our hypothesis was th...

Introduction Les dossiers des médecins légistes peuvent nous aider à mieux comprendre l’ampleur du suicide dans une population, ainsi que les facteurs sociodémographiques ou autres associés au phénomène. Méthodologie Cette étude pilote avait pour objectif principal de déterminer, à l’aide de méthodes mixtes, les sources et les types de renseigneme...

Medical examiners' records can contribute to our understanding of the extent of suicide in a population, as well as associated sociodemographic and other factors. Using a mixed methods approach, the key objective of this pilot study was to determine the sources and types of information found in the Nova Scotia Medical Examiner Service (NSMES) recor...

Purpose: To explore, through focus-group interviews, client education provided by physiotherapists in private practice who treat injured workers with subacute low back pain (SA-LBP). Methods: Six focus-group interviews were held in the fall of 2006 to explore treatment practices of physiotherapists for this population. Each of the 44 physiotherapis...

Exploring the friendships of disabled youth in forthcoming doctoral research raised many unsettling questions. Members of academic and disability communities thoughtfully asked how the researcher could legitimately understand, interpret and represent the experiences of disabled youth. The initial impulse was to rely on nearly two decades of clinica...

To describe barriers to charting identified by physiotherapists working in private practice in New Brunswick. Physiotherapists were invited to focus-group interviews to discuss the results of a comprehensive chart audit. Sixty-nine physiotherapists who responded were assigned to nine focus groups. Seven of nine audiotaped interviews (49 participant...

Our purpose was to explore and describe physiotherapists' informed consent practices in the treatment of clients with low back pain. Forty-four physiotherapists were assigned to six focus group interviews. Focus group interaction elicits insights that are less accessible in individual interviews and which can be corroborated immediately through inb...

While women continue to do the lion's share of foodwork and other housework, they and their families appear to perceive this division of labour as fair. Much of the research in this area has focused on families of European origin, and on the perceptions of women. Here we report findings of a qualitative study based on interviewing multiple family m...

Encouraging a teenager to have a conversation in a semistructured research interview is fraught with difficulties. The authors discuss the methodological challenges encountered when interviewing adolescents of European Canadian, African Canadian, and Punjabi Canadian families who took part in the Family Food Decision-Making Study in two regions of...

We explored how adolescents and parents negotiate adolescents' increasing food choice autonomy in European Canadian, Punjabi Canadian and African Canadian families. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with 47 adolescents and their parents, participant observation at a family meal and a grocery shopping trip with the family shoppe...

Purpose This paper aims to investigate grocery list use in the lives of participant families in a study on decision making about food choices and eating practices. Design/methodology/approach A total of 46 families from three ethno‐cultural groups living in two regions in Canada participated in the study: in British Columbia, 12 Punjabi Canadian a...

Encouraging a teenager to have a conversation in a semistructured research interview is fraught with difficulties. The authors discuss the methodological challenges encountered when interviewing adolescents of European Canadian, African Canadian, and Punjabi Canadian families who took part in the Family Food Decision-Making Study in two regions of...

This paper reports the findings of a one-year qualitative investigation of the memories and activities of people with mild to moderate Alzheimer's. We observed and interviewed 58 patient-carer dyads during home visits. The progression of the dementia symptoms was documented, and information was collected on social-relational events, as well as acco...

This paper reports the findings of a descriptive, exploratory, qualitative study of patient and caregiver perspectives of the disclosure of a dementia diagnosis. Data were collected at 3 points in time: (1) the disclosure meeting, (2) patient and caregiver interviews, and (3) focus group interviews. Thirty patient-caregiver dyads participated in th...

Senescence is a time of decline; yet many seniors remain active and engaged into very old age. How and why do some seniors live long and keep well? We report the responses to this question from a representative sample of 2,783 Canadian seniors. Overall, seniors placed primary responsibility for their long lives on their own individual practices, ci...

The literature on caring for people with Alzheimer's disease predominantly underscores the role of the care giver, largely ignoring the care receiver. Care is viewed as a service to mind someone rather than a compassionate act of shared relationship. Alzheimer's disease is portrayed as negatively influencing reciprocity in caring relationships, pre...

Food consumption and food-related practices serve many purposes in human life. From a cultural perspective, food practices are involved in creating a sense of community, belonging, and common experiences and needs. Food practices, in terms of cooking and eating, are an aspect of culture that can be carried over during migration from the country of...

Decisions about ‘healthy eating’ are the result of complex processes which involve diverse ways of drawing on, perceiving and understanding discourses about food, diet and health. Although we are increasingly aware of diverse views of the role of food in health and well being, there is paucity of knowledge about how people pull together discourses...

Computerized data analysis presents exciting and innovative opportunities. More efficient data management, reduced paper volume, easier and more accurate investigation of data in depth and more refined, replicable and sophisticated analyses have legitimized qualitative research for many researchers. Others, however, point with pessimism to the tyra...

Responds to Ellen Wall's concerns (see SA 43:4/9507616) over the process of choosing, learning, & using new software for qualitative data analysis (QDA). It is agreed that such tools should not be uncritically adopted & that the intuitive insights of data collection be maintained, as should creativity & researcher autonomy. The work of Eben A. Weit...