Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research Lab
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This online forum provides students, faculty, and community members resources to learn and collaborate on qualitative and mixed methods research to understand and mitigate biopsychosocial impacts on health.
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Advancing the Inclusion of Biopsychosocial Factors in Health Science Research
Example Areas of Scholarship
Patient-provider communication, shared decision-making, developing trust and rapport, patient-centered care, and trauma-informed care
Understanding the sociocultural context and biological embedding intersection in health behavior and outcomes
Educating stakeholders about person-centered care and biopsychosocial models
Facilitating healthy behavior change by incorporating interventions informed by the socio-cultural context
Understanding and advancing health-related quality of life
Facilitating engaged and participatory approaches to problem-solving
Advancing Qualitative and Mixed Methods Skills and Creating Team Science Opportunities
Learn about research methodologies that fit health science research and evaluation questions
Practice data collection and analysis
Learn how the methods intersect with applied medical anthropology and focused ethnography, basic interpretive methods, RCTs, case studies, etc.
Develop procedural diagrams
Develop a plan to integrate non-numeric and numeric data in data collection and/or analysis in mixed methods research (MMR)
Develop a research protocol for existing or new data
Learn how to appraise qualitative and MMR papers critically
Join a research team to collaborate on a project of interest