Practical Issues of Conducting a Q Methodology Study: Lessons Learned From a Cross-cultural Study | Semantic Scholar (2024)

Nurses aware of the nature and sources of their beliefs and those of patients are well-placed to balance maintenance of cultural traditions with the need to provide evidence-based practice.

The study revealed tensions between personal beliefs, often nested in cultural traditions, and contemporary evidence that counters those beliefs, and illuminated a need to recognise that critical health literacy, seen as the hallmark of contemporary practice, may be at odds with personal beliefs.

Findings from the qualitative phase of a large q-methodology study that involved both quantitative and qualitative methods concluded that many nurses in all the surveyed countries had some false and scientifically unsupported beliefs about nutrition.

How nurses can use the Q methodology to include head and neck cancer patients in research is described, which should be taken into consideration in research project design also as an ethical aspect of the study.

An overview of the Q methodology technique is presented and special considerations for implementing Q methodological investigations are delineated.

The use of Q-methodology is described to examine subjectivity systematically, revealing connections between accounts that other techniques may overlook.

This paper draws on the work of Peshkin from the discipline of education, who articulated the need for researchers to identify their subjectivity systematically throughout the course of their research by searching for their subjective I's, to offer this approach for consideration by healthcare researchers as a robust means of illuminating researcher subjectivity.

This paper argues the case for the use of Q methodology when studying attitudes and justifies why Q methodology should particularly be selected in the study of attitudes within the health field.

The development of nursing competencies in accessing and using online resources is a key precursor to supporting patients and families' use of the medium.

Q methodology is a preferred method of human subjectivity study as it provides more in-depth analysis of complex subjectivity issues.

Much of the literature on health care, health promotion, and health outcomes may not apply to these segments of the population, leaving us with limited evidence as to how to improve the health of these groups.

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