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Handbook of Qualitative Health Research for Evidence-Based Practice

  • Aligns notion of evidence with the biopsychosocial and transdisciplinary model of health interventions
  • Identifies the kinds of psychosocial health questions that can be answered through qualitative and mixed design research methods
  • Provides recommendations for future research, policy, and practice in evidence-based health interventions

Part of the book series: Handbooks in Health, Work, and Disability (SHHDW, volume 4)

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Table of contents (33 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
  2. Setting the Stage

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Using Qualitative Health Research to Transform the Nature of Evidence

      • Karin Olson, Richard A. Young, Izabela Z. Schultz
      Pages 3-6
    3. Contextual Action Theory: An Integrative Framework for Qualitative Health Research

      • Richard A. Young, Ladislav Valach, Ada K. Law
      Pages 41-59
    4. The World Health Organization Model of Health: What Evidence Is Needed?

      • David B. Peterson, Travis T. Threats
      Pages 61-76
    5. Qualitative and Quantitative Evidence in Health: The Critics’ View

      • Kadriye Ercikan, Wolff-Michael Roth
      Pages 77-90
  3. Reviews of Qualitative Health Research

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91
    2. Evaluating Qualitative Health Research from Inside and Outside

      • Lynn Meadows, Ardene Robinson Vollman
      Pages 93-105
    3. The Contributions of Qualitative Research to Cardiac Conditions

      • Alexander M. Clark, Lis Neubeck, Pat H. Strachan, Kay Currie, Jan E. Angus
      Pages 107-121
    4. Qualitative Evidence in Pain

      • Monika Löfgren, Kristina Schüldt Ekholm, Marie-Louise Schult, Jan Ekholm
      Pages 123-151
    5. Qualitative Evidence on Psychological Trauma

      • Marla J. Buchanan, Patrice Keats
      Pages 153-171
    6. Qualitative Evidence in Addictions

      • Lindsey Coombes
      Pages 187-201
    7. Qualitative Research in Mental Health and Mental Illness

      • Rebecca Gewurtz, Sandra Moll, Jennifer M. Poole, Karen Rebeiro Gruhl
      Pages 203-223
    8. Qualitative Evidence in Occupational Health

      • Ellen MacEachen, Agnieszka Kosny
      Pages 225-241
    9. Qualitative Evidence in Health Promotion

      • Daphne C. Watkins, Jaclynn Hawkins
      Pages 243-256
    10. Qualitative Evidence in Pediatrics

      • Shannon D. Scott, Mandy Archibald, Lesley Pullishy, Thane Chambers
      Pages 257-275
    11. Qualitative Evidence in Working with Cognitively Impaired Older Adults

      • Jennifer Hagerty Lingler, Lu Hu
      Pages 277-289

About this book

This progressive reference redefines qualitative research as a crucial component of evidence-based practice and assesses its current and future impact on healthcare. Its introductory section explains the value of sociocultural context in case conceptualization, and ways this evidence can be integrated with quantitative findings to inform and transform practice. The bulk of the book's chapters review qualitative research in diverse  areas, including pain, trauma, heart disease, COPD, and disabling conditions, and examine ways of effectively evaluating and applying qualitative data. This seismic shift in perception moves the healing professions away from traditional one-size-fits-all thinking and toward responsive, patient-centered care.

Among the topics in the Handbook:

·Examining qualitative alternatives to categorical representation.

·The World Health Organization model of health: what evidence is needed?

·Qualitative research in mental health and mental illness.

·Qualitative evidence in pediatrics.

·The contribution of qualitative research to medication adherence.

·Qualitative evidence in health policy analysis.

The Handbook of Qualitative Health Research for Evidence-Based Practice offers health and clinical psychologists, rehabilitation specialists,occupational and physical therapists, nurses, family physicians and other primary care providers new ways for understanding patients' health-related experiences and opens up new ways for developing interventions intended to improve health outcomes.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

    Karin Olson

  • Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology, and Special Education, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

    Richard A. Young

  • Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology, and Special Education, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

    Izabela Z. Schultz

About the editors

Karin Olson completed a B. Sc. in Nursing at the University of Alberta (1976), a Masters in Health Science with a focus in Health Promotion at the University of Toronto (1981), and a PhD in Educational Psychology at the University of Alberta (1990). She is a Professor in the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Alberta where she is also a Distinguished Scholar at the International Institute for Qualitative Methodology. Dr. Olson also holds an adjunct appointment to the Division of Palliative Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta. Her research focuses on use of qualitative and quantitative methods to develop an etiological model of fatigue in advanced cancer.

Richard Young is Professor of Counselling Psychology at the University of British Columbia. He is a Fellow of both the Canadian Psychological Association and the American Psychological Association and a Registered Psychologist in British Columbia, Canada. His current research interests include the application of action theory and the qualitative action-project method to a variety of research topics, including the transition to adulthood, families, career development, counselling, health, and suicide. He is the author of over 75 articles published in scholarly journals, and a number of other publications, including five co-edited or co-authored books. His most recent co-authored book is Transition to adulthood: Actions, projects, and counseling (Springer-Science, 2011). He is the past-president of Division 16 (Counselling Psychology) of the International Association of Applied Psychology.

Dr. Izabela Z. Schultz is Professor of Rehabilitation Psychology and Director of Graduate Program in Vocational Rehabilitation Counselling in the Department of Educational and Counselling and Special Education at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Schultz is doubly board certified as diplomate in clinical psychology, American Board of Professional Psychology and as diplomate of the American Board of Vocational Experts. She has received international awards for her innovative research on prediction of occupational disability and professional leadership awards for major contributions to medico-legal aspects of rehabilitation psychology. She has published several books and numerous seminal papers and book chapters in the field of occupational disability and rehabilitation. She is an editor of the Work and Disability Section of Springer’s Psychological Injury and the Law and a founding member of this international journal. Recently, she completed, with Dr. Sally Rogers, the pioneering Work Accommodation and Retention in Mental Health (Springer). Dr. Schultz is also a co-chair of the American Psychological Association’s Task Force on Assessment and Treatment of Persons with Disabilities. She has been leading development of best-evidence-informed practice guidelines in early musculoskeletal pain interventions, in work accommodation and retention in mental health, and in assessment and treatment of persons with disabilities.

Psychological Injury and the Law and a founding member of this international journal. Recently, she completed, with Dr. Sally Rogers, the pioneering Work Accommodation and Retention in Mental Health (Springer). Dr. Schultz is also a co-chair of the American Psychological Association’s Task Force on Assessment and Treatment of Persons with Disabilities. She has been leading development of best-evidence-informed practice guidelines in early musculoskeletal pain interventions, in work accommodation and retention in mental health, and in assessment and treatment of persons with disabilities.

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