TY - JOUR
T1 - Analysing one dataset with two qualitative methods
T2 - The distress of general practitioners, a thematic and interpretative phenomenological analysis
AU - Spiers, Johanna
AU - Riley, Ruth
PY - 2019/4/3
Y1 - 2019/4/3
N2 - General practitioners (GPs) in the United Kingdom are vulnerable to poor mental health. We conducted a qualitative study aiming to uncover barriers to help-seeking for this group. Forty-seven GPs were interviewed about depression, anxiety, stress, and/or burnout. Transcripts contained data of pragmatic and existential interest. We wished to explore data for breadth and depth, giving due recognition to participants’ complex accounts. Therefore, we conducted a dual analysis of the dataset, applying thematic analysis to transcripts from the full sample and interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) to a subsample: GP partners with more than 10 years’ experience. This article makes transparent our analytic process and compares findings from the two methods, which complemented one another to produce a multi-layered understanding of the phenomena. The methods demonstrated breadth versus depth, explicit versus hermeneutic interpretation, and pragmatic versus existential. We conclude that pairing thematic analysis and IPA is useful for analytic pluralism.
AB - General practitioners (GPs) in the United Kingdom are vulnerable to poor mental health. We conducted a qualitative study aiming to uncover barriers to help-seeking for this group. Forty-seven GPs were interviewed about depression, anxiety, stress, and/or burnout. Transcripts contained data of pragmatic and existential interest. We wished to explore data for breadth and depth, giving due recognition to participants’ complex accounts. Therefore, we conducted a dual analysis of the dataset, applying thematic analysis to transcripts from the full sample and interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) to a subsample: GP partners with more than 10 years’ experience. This article makes transparent our analytic process and compares findings from the two methods, which complemented one another to produce a multi-layered understanding of the phenomena. The methods demonstrated breadth versus depth, explicit versus hermeneutic interpretation, and pragmatic versus existential. We conclude that pairing thematic analysis and IPA is useful for analytic pluralism.
KW - Analytic pluralism
KW - general practice
KW - interpretative phenomenological analysis
KW - mental health
KW - thematic analysis
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85057630340&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/14780887.2018.1543099
DO - 10.1080/14780887.2018.1543099
M3 - Article (Academic Journal)
AN - SCOPUS:85057630340
VL - 16
SP - 276
EP - 290
JO - Qualitative Research in Psychology
JF - Qualitative Research in Psychology
SN - 1478-0887
IS - 2
ER -