Respond to a classmate who was assigned a different article than you by further supporting his or her critique or respectfully offering a differing perspective.
BY DAY 6
Respond to a classmate who was assigned a different article than you by further supporting his or her critique or respectfully offering a differing perspective.
VICTORIA
My qualitative article: Understanding everyday life of morbidly obese adults-habits and body image, was published by Christiansen, B., Borge, L., & Fagermoe, M. S. (2012.
The research was a logical extension of the purpose of the study. The researchers, in order to improve their understanding of the everyday life of morbidly obese adults, conducted a qualitative study. The researcher’s hypothesis was centered around an understanding of everyday life from the viewpoint of morbidly obese adults. (Walden University, LLC. Producer, 2015). By asking research questions such as What factors, other than rational choice, may be influencing living habits? researchers were able to gain useful data to prove their hypothesis (p.2). Babbie (2017) noted that a qualitative design is flexible, iterative, and continuous rather than prepared and locked in stone " (p.318).
By using a qualitative approach to gain insight into how morbidly obese adults experience everyday life, the researchers were able to collect needed data. Data was collected through qualitative interviews to obtain insight into themes from the interviewee’s life story from the subjects’ own perspectives” (p.3). According to Burkholder et al, 2020, "qualitative research uses an interpretative/theoretical framework that informs the study by addressing the meaning individuals or groups ascribe to a social problem" (p.81). The research study was conducted among this group of participants comprised of seven women and four men aged 26-56 years old who had attended PERC. According to the study, those who participated had completed the course and the researchers felt that they “might contribute with valuable insight into the characteristics of eating habits and body image of morbidly obese adults” (p.3).
The researchers used a narrative approach that allowed the participants to give voice to their ways of doing, thinking, and feeling in daily life, which was adopted” (p.3). In addition, according to Borge & Fagermoe (2012, “this approach enabled a focus on the participant’s own understanding, recall and interpretation of their experiences” (p.3). Furthermore, researchers sent a letter of invitation to participate in this study. This method of interviews was how the researchers implemented their study design.
Five themes emerged through the theoretical framework (problem, research questions, and design. According to Borge & Fagermoe (2012), the five themes were “(1) to be perceived as overweight; (2) to see oneself as overweight; (3) ingrained habits: the struggle between knowing and doing; (4) ingrained habits: acting without knowing; and (5) ingrained habits: eating is soothing” (p.4). Based on this commonsense framework, the researchers were able to contribute more knowledge to the body of existing research.
References
Christiansen, B., Borge, L., & Fagermoe, M. S. (2012). Understanding everyday life of morbidly obese adults-habits and body image. International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-Being, 7. https://doi.org/10.3402/qhw.v7i0.17255
Babbie, E. (2017). Basics of social research (7th ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.
Burkholder, G. J., Cox, K. A., Crawford, L. M., & Hitchcock, J.H. (Eds.) (2020). Research design and methods: An applied guide for the scholar-practitioner. SAGE Publications, Inc.
Walden University, LLC. (Producer). (2015). Overview of qualitative research methods [Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.