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4228.0: Tuesday, November 9, 2004: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM | |||
Oral | |||
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| For many, qualitative research is the ‘other’ methodology, basically monolithic and known most for using small samples, open-ended questions, words rather than numbers, and being closer to the ‘subjectivity’ of the researcher and the researched. Despite its strong tradition in labor relations and clear gains of legitimacy in general medicine today, qualitative research has yet to be sufficiently exploited in occupational health. This panel brings together researchers who have used a variety of qualitative research methods-- for a range of purposes and within different theoretical perspectives-- to investigate issues in occupational health and safety (OHS). Together, the papers will demonstrate the range and important dimensions of qualitative research: its applicability to OHS topics, its use of social theory and for the development of theory; its ability to address broader, structural context, to reveal causal mechanisms, to discern distinctions beyond the sensitivity threshold of quantitative instruments and to problematize the very issues that are usually studied. By studying/analyzing the social and political construction of research questions and truth claims themselves, qualitative research offers an avenue for reflexivity to occupational health. | |||
| Learning Objectives: The audience should be able to identify important challenges and possible adaptations in conducting multi-disciplinary occupational health research with hospital workers. The audience should be able to identify some of the strengths and weaknesses of different methodological approaches. | |||
| Deborah R. Gordon, PhD Joan M. Eakin, PhD | |||
| Joan M. Eakin, PhD Charles Levenstein, Ph D | |||
Making sense (and use) of what people say: Methodological issues in the interpretation of managers' accounts of workplace health practices ![[ Recorded presentation ]](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif){kind=small} Ellen MacEachen, PhD | |||
| Using qualitative methods to evaluate and make change in the work environment Cora Roelofs, ScD | |||
| Legal and social factors influencing the injured worker’s experience of the claims process: Therapeutic and iatrogenic effects of workers’ compensation Katherine Helen Lippel, Professor, Joseph Caron, PhD, Marie-Claire Lefebvre, Chantal Schmidt | |||
| Political economy of the healthcare work environment: Neoliberalism and workers' health and safety Craig Slatin, ScD, MPH, C. Eduardo Siqueira, MD, ScD, Michael O'Sullivan, DPH, The PHASE in Healthcare Project | |||
| "Of course it's not comfortable but I'm ok with it": Why cashiers in North America still stand at work Karen Messing, Ph D, Geneviève Rail, Ph D, Sylvie Fortin, Ph D, Maude Randoin, LL B | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Organized by: | Occupational Health and Safety | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | ||