Advanced qualitative method:

Data collection methods reading

reflection

By

Nathan E & Yitagesu H.

Instructor: Dr. Hussen Mekonnen

 Outline
• Summary of the article
• Experiences
• Challenges
• Opportunities
• Suggestion to use other tool
• Articles read
• Acknowledgements
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 Summary of the article
• What was the research question ?
– What are barriers to male involvement in
contraceptive uptake and reproductive health
services ?
• Design used: “A cross-sectional qualitative study”
• Sampling strategy : Purposive sampling ?
– current married or non-married partnerships ; men
( 15–54 yrs) and women ( 15–49 yrs)
– key informants ( District health officers, members
of village health teams, council leaders, and
representatives from local women and men’s
groups)
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Summary of the article
• Data collection ?
– Methods: Interviews and FGDs
• 18 FGDs 154 individuals ??
• 8 Key informant interviews
– Why data saturation took this numbers of
individuals ? The diversity of the research
problem ?
– Tools: Open ended, semi-structured question
guides
– What could have been done if the study team
had found new findings during debriefings ?
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 Summary of the article
• Data Analysis ?
– conducted by the primary author and included
several iterative steps
– Used “thematic content analyses” Why ? And what
is it in the context ?
– Verbatim transcription of discussions and interviews
– Transcripts were coded &managed ATLAS.ti ? Oh !
How ?
– “The grouped categories were refined and used to
generate themes emerging from the data”

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Our experiences ?
• Qualitative research
• Design : phenomenology
• Sampling strategy: Purposive and criterion
• Sample at data saturation: 6 FGDs and 10 KIIs
• Data analysis- Transcriptions, coding,
categorizing , theming, (creating theoretical
frameworks) ??

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Challenges and opportunities ??
• Challenges for this articles is may be the data
burden 154 participants in 18 FGDs and 8 KIIs
• What makes surprise to this articles is that
“only primary author did the analysis” that is
why analyst had not at least one non-verbal
action though formal transcription system ?
• For our case too, all the above and other
design issues were very challenging
• This module would be our opportunity to
improve our work
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Suggestion to the indicated study
• The design mentioned as “A cross-sectional
qualitative study” but better to the best of the
design types
• Sampling strategies are two Purposive sampling
and criterion sampling ?
• “thematic content analyses in the data analysis
section is not clear
• Formal analysis of non-verbal actions should be
analyzed
• The research question of this study would have
been answered with less samples ?

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 Reflecting papers
1. Kabagenyi, A, Jennings L, Reid A, Nalwadda G, Ntozi J,
Atuyambe L. Barriers to male involvement in contraceptive
uptake and reproductive health services: a qualitative study of
men and women’s perceptions in two rural districts in Uganda.
Reproductive Health 2014, 11:21.

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Acknowledgements
• AAU, SPH for arranging advanced qualitative
research methods the program

• Dr. Mirgissa K, and Dr Hussen M for making

me reflect this interesting topic

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