Updates

Collection from Phase One

Fieldnotes

~360 hours of participation, observations and unstructured interviews were recorded

Art Workshops

10 Art Workshops were facilitated at the wards for patients

Casefiles

32 casefiles were developed with patients and staff members

Focus Groups

19,000 words of transcribed feedback was recorded from 2 focus groups

Interpretation of findings

The focus group discussions framed an interpretation of findings through three steps of analysis:

Summarising: The 19,000-words of verbatim focus group transcriptions were summarised into 374 short phrase ‘initial codes’.

Grouping: The codes were refined to 236 ‘axial codes’ organised in 27 subcategories, and 4 general categories

Connecting: The categories were analysed using notes from participation, observations, interviews, casefiles, and relevant literature to create 50 new categories that connect the findings from the phase one activities to the research questions.

From these categories, 14 central organising themes in 3 sets were created

You can read a summary of each theme in these initial findings posters:

Findings

Phase 2 and 3 are being written up.

Updates will be shared here and through formal publications.

Those who participated in this research may contact the researcher to request a copy of the final thesis and associated publications.

Findings will be used to continue 'phase 3' beyond research into quality improvement and innovation