How qualitative research demystified our health science postgraduate journey: Two South African women’s perspective
Location
2077
Format Type
Paper
Format Type
Paper
Start Date
14-1-2017 10:30 AM
End Date
14-1-2017 11:50 AM
Abstract
In this paper, we embark on a pivotal recourse to share our experiences through a naturalistic paradigm of our PhD studies in health science. We reflect on the qualitative exploration embedded within our doctoral research, and echo participants’ perspectives, with an exposition of how these framed our thinking, impacted and reshaped our clinical practice on both people living with HIV in a resource-poor setting and children with neurological impairments. The valuable qualitative insight offered by our research participants’ through interviews, focus groups and critical discussions redefined our clinical reasoning at various phases. We believe that the naturalistic aspects of our clinical research intersecting with the positivist components led to sound construct of our work. Moreover, it emphasized our unique positions as health science researchers in the inclusion of qualitative enquiry into clinical research.
How qualitative research demystified our health science postgraduate journey: Two South African women’s perspective
2077
In this paper, we embark on a pivotal recourse to share our experiences through a naturalistic paradigm of our PhD studies in health science. We reflect on the qualitative exploration embedded within our doctoral research, and echo participants’ perspectives, with an exposition of how these framed our thinking, impacted and reshaped our clinical practice on both people living with HIV in a resource-poor setting and children with neurological impairments. The valuable qualitative insight offered by our research participants’ through interviews, focus groups and critical discussions redefined our clinical reasoning at various phases. We believe that the naturalistic aspects of our clinical research intersecting with the positivist components led to sound construct of our work. Moreover, it emphasized our unique positions as health science researchers in the inclusion of qualitative enquiry into clinical research.