The Implementation of a Model of Person-Centred Practice In Older ...

The implementation of a model of person-centred practice in older person settings
Appendix 2
Creative Hermeneutic Data Analysis
Boomer C and McCormack B (2008) Creating the Conditions for Growth: report on the Royal
Hospitals and Belfast City Hospitals Collaborative Practice Development Programme
http://www.science.ulster.ac.uk/inr/pdf/BCH_RGH_programme_report_final.pdf
Process used for Analysis of Narrative and Observation Data
Thirty two (22) internal facilitators participated in a workshop to analyse the
observation and narrative data collected in round 3 of the evaluation. IN
addition, the NMPDU and Lead Facilitators undertook data analysis of the
same data at a separate workshop. This approach was adopted for two
reasons – 1) the facilitators were free to facilitate participants in the data
analysis workshop process, and 2) it prevented the facilitators from
imposing themes and thus ensured that the themes were derived from the
experiences of the internal facilitators. A structured approach to the
analysis of the data using a framework developed by Boomer and
McCormack (2008) was utilised. The framework progresses through nine
(9) stages and was operationalised as follows in the workshop:
1. Copies of all (anonymised) narrative and observation data were
distributed randomly among group members. Individuals had copies of
both narrative and observation data from across all participating sites.
The participants were asked to read the data and form general
impressions, observations, thoughts and feelings. They were
encouraged to make notes on these if it helped as aide memoir to
check later if they needed to. Participants had 30 minutes to read the
data.
2. When they had finished reading the data, participants were asked to
create an image of their impressions, feelings, etc as a means of
capturing the essences of the data. Participants were allocated 15
minutes for this activity.
3. In this stage each participant was asked to join with another and take
turns in “telling the story” of their creative work. While each person told
their story, their colleague was asked to write the story verbatim.
4. Using the creative image as the centre piece and the story (written) and
other notes they may have made at step 1, each person was asked to
theme their image:
1. as many themes as they liked
2. write 1 theme on each post it and stick on the creative image.
5. Each pair (step 3) joined other pairs to form small groups. Four (4)
small groups were formed. The themes identified by individuals were
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