Enhancing Healthcare and Rehabilitation : The Impact of Qualitative Research.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Editors -- Contributors -- Section I: Introductory Perspectives -- 1: Qualitative Research in Contemporary Healthcare and Rehabilitative Practices -- 2: The Role of Qualitative Research in Adapted Physical Activity -- Section II: Enhancing Healthcare and Rehabilitation: Contemporary Applications of Qualitative Research -- 3: Exploring the Value of Qualitative Comparison Groups in Rehabilitation Research: Lessons from Youth with Disabilities Transitioning into Work -- 4: Unravelling the Irrational - Addressing the Subjective Nature of Sexual Risk-Taking through Qualitative Research -- 5: The Phenomenological Experience of Family Caregiving following Traumatic Brain Injury -- 6: Using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis to Study Patient and Family Members' Experiences of a Mechanical Ventilation Weaning Unit -- 7: Using Narrative Analysis to Study Coping and Adjusting to Cardiothoracic Transplant -- 8: Qualitative Research and Osteoarthritis of the Knee -- 9: Shaping Rehabilitation after Spinal Cord Injury: The Impact of Qualitative Research -- 10: Hand Injuries and Disorders during the Life Cycle -- Consequences, Adaptation and Therapeutic Approach -- 11: Giving People with Aphasia a Voice through Qualitative Research -- 12: The Impact of Qualitative Research in Rheumatology -- 13: Challenging Assumptions about 'Normal' Development in Children's Rehabilitation: The Promise of Critical Qualitative Research -- 14: Bringing Qualitative Research into Rehabilitation - A Worked Example of Developing a Rehabilitation Program for Patients with Fibromyalgia -- 15: Concept Development through Qualitative Research: The Case of Social Support Networks for People with Intellectual Disability.

16: The Importance of Social Support in the Rehabilitation of Female Bariatric Surgery Patients: Lessons Learned from Qualitative Inquiry -- 17: Qualitative Research on Caregiving Outcomes -- 18: Multiple Sclerosis -- Section III: Methodological Considerations for Qualitative Researchers -- 19: Designing Qualitative Research to Have an Impact on Healthcare from the Outset -- 20: Ethnography and Emotions: New Directions for Critical Reflexivity within Contemporary Qualitative Health Care Research -- Index.

This edited volume will focus on the impact that qualitative research has on the process of healthcare and rehabilitation in practice. It will present expert practitioner perspectives on pertinent topics covering the life cycle along with considering caregivers, families and policymakers.

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