Reading Research Texts Reflexively

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Reading Research Texts Reflexively

• Dr Christopher Bailey, University of Southampton,
  School of Nursing Midwifery

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STIMULUS
Empathetic insight (EI)
Arousal
Detached response
Connected response
Professional response
Reflected response
(From Beyond empathy expanding expressions of
caring, Morse et al, 1992)
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• Facilities were sparse there was one bathroom, a
  large bath with hydraulic lift, no showers, and
  three toilets, not all of them with suitable
  access. Washing facilities, bathroom and toilets
  did not give privacy. Bedpans and urinals were
  kept in a dirty room allocated for disposal of
  body fluids, and this room was not heated There
  was one windowless sitting room for patients and
  relatives with bare wooden benches and no
  comforts and heating There were no day rooms or
  privacy for patients or staff. An enclosed
  office was situated at the end of the ward,
  complete with plate glass windows.
• (From Establishing rigour in qualitative
  research, Koch, 1994, p.978)

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• our self-understanding essentially incorporates
  our seeing ourselves against a background of
  strong evaluation of distinctions between
  things which are recognised as of categoric or
  unconditioned or higher importance or worth, and
  things which lack this or are of lesser value
  to be a full human agent, to be a person or self
  in the ordinary meaning, is to exist in a space
  defined by distinctions of worth.
• (From Human Agency and Language Philosophical
  Papers 1, Taylor, 1985, p.1)

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• Facilities were sparse there was one bathroom, a
  large bath with hydraulic lift, no showers, and
  three toilets, not all of them with suitable
  access. Washing facilities, bathroom and toilets
  did not give privacy. Bedpans and urinals were
  kept in a dirty room allocated for disposal of
  body fluids, and this room was not heated There
  was one windowless sitting room for patients and
  relatives with bare wooden benches and no
  comforts and heating There were no day rooms or
  privacy for patients or staff. An enclosed
  office was situated at the end of the ward,
  complete with plate glass windows.
• (From Establishing rigour in qualitative
  research, Koch, 1994, p.978)

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• Overall, participants composite story is of a
  strong imperative to self-management of
  constipation and a fervent search for solutions.
  Laxative use is the most common solution but this
  is a potential mire in which an older person may
  become stuck, with minimal directions available
  for successful navigation through or around the
  mire Even those who consider that their
  constipation is being managed adequately by
  laxatives (about half of the participants), the
  laxative mire is still there and bothering
  them. Issues like dependency, potential harm to
  the bowel, side-effects and the desire to be free
  of laxative use are on their minds.
• (From Older people seeking solutions to
  constipation the laxative mire, Annells Koch,
  2002)

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• One day he said to me (probably after I had
  delivered some well-meaning technical
  information about his leukopenia), You are doing
  an OK job Mary, but I can tell that every time
  you walk in that door you are walking out.
• Ironically, he said what Jim Smith had said
  They are walking out when they come through that
  door. It was great that he wasnt saying that
  to me. I knew that I did not relate like that
  anymore.
• (From The Primacy of Caring, Benner Wrubel,
  1989, p.14-15)

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(From Illness as biographical disruption, Bury,
1982)
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Putting the I back into qualitative research
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