TY - JOUR
T1 - Hearing the voices of service user researchers in collaborative qualitative data analysis
T2 - The case for multiple coding
AU - Sweeney, Angela
AU - Greenwood, Kathryn E.
AU - Williams, Sally
AU - Wykes, Til
AU - Rose, Diana S.
PY - 2013/12
Y1 - 2013/12
N2 - Background: Health research is frequently conducted in multi-disciplinary teams, with these teams increasingly including service user researchers. Whilst it is common for service user researchers to be involved in data collection - most typically interviewing other service users - it is less common for service user researchers to be involved in data analysis and interpretation. This means that a unique and significant perspective on the data is absent. Aim: This study aims to use an empirical report of a study on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for psychosis (CBTp) to demonstrate the value of multiple coding in enabling service users voices to be heard in team-based qualitative data analysis. Design: The CBTp study employed multiple coding to analyse service users' discussions of CBT for psychosis (CBTp) from the perspectives of a service user researcher, clinical researcher and psychology assistant. Multiple coding was selected to enable multiple perspectives to analyse and interpret data, to understand and explore differences and to build multi-disciplinary consensus. Results: Multiple coding enabled the team to understand where our views were commensurate and incommensurate and to discuss and debate differences. Through the process of multiple coding, we were able to build strong consensus about the data from multiple perspectives, including that of the service user researcher. Discussion: Multiple coding is an important method for understanding and exploring multiple perspectives on data and building team consensus. This can be contrasted with inter-rater reliability which is only appropriate in limited circumstances. Conclusion: We conclude that multiple coding is an appropriate and important means of hearing service users' voices in qualitative data analysis.
AB - Background: Health research is frequently conducted in multi-disciplinary teams, with these teams increasingly including service user researchers. Whilst it is common for service user researchers to be involved in data collection - most typically interviewing other service users - it is less common for service user researchers to be involved in data analysis and interpretation. This means that a unique and significant perspective on the data is absent. Aim: This study aims to use an empirical report of a study on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for psychosis (CBTp) to demonstrate the value of multiple coding in enabling service users voices to be heard in team-based qualitative data analysis. Design: The CBTp study employed multiple coding to analyse service users' discussions of CBT for psychosis (CBTp) from the perspectives of a service user researcher, clinical researcher and psychology assistant. Multiple coding was selected to enable multiple perspectives to analyse and interpret data, to understand and explore differences and to build multi-disciplinary consensus. Results: Multiple coding enabled the team to understand where our views were commensurate and incommensurate and to discuss and debate differences. Through the process of multiple coding, we were able to build strong consensus about the data from multiple perspectives, including that of the service user researcher. Discussion: Multiple coding is an important method for understanding and exploring multiple perspectives on data and building team consensus. This can be contrasted with inter-rater reliability which is only appropriate in limited circumstances. Conclusion: We conclude that multiple coding is an appropriate and important means of hearing service users' voices in qualitative data analysis.
KW - Collaborative research
KW - Multi-disciplinary teams
KW - Multiple coding
KW - Multiple perspectives
KW - Qualitative data analysis
KW - Service user researchers
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1369-7625.2012.00810.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1369-7625.2012.00810.x
M3 - Article
SN - 1369-6513
VL - 16
SP - e89-e99
JO - Health Expectations
JF - Health Expectations
IS - 4
ER -