Psychology - Heath psychology

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The term Heath psychology refers to the study of psychological as well as behavioral
process in healthcare. Psychologists assess, diagnose as well as treat the psychological issues as
well as a behavioural dysfunction that occurs due to deterioration of physical and mental health.
The chief aim of the health psychologists is to develop effective understanding of how
behavioural, psychological as well as cultural factors that contribute to both physical health as
well as illness.
When it comes to the framework analysis approach in health psychology, it can be
defined as an approach of the research that is being used in an increasing way across numerous
disciplines, including psychological, social policy as well as research in nursing. The stages
associated with the framework analysis are been described in published work. According to
Blanton (2018), the framework analysis is now considered to be a highly popular approach for
the management along with qualitative data analysis associated with research about qualitative
health study. However, still, confusions are there when it come to its potential applications as
well as limitations.
When it comes to psychological health, a 7 step procedure is followed for analysing the
patients and obtaining an effective result. the 7 stages of framework analysis are as follows:
1. Stage 1: Transcription.
2. Stage 2: Familiarisation with the interview.
3. Stage 3: Coding.
4. Stage 4: Developing a working analytical framework.
5. Stage 5: Applying the analytical framework.

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6. Stage 6: Charting data into the framework matrix.
7. Stage 7: Interpretation of Data
In the first stage that is Transcription, an effective quality audio recording as well as verbatim
is conducted, the transcription needs to have large a margin along with line spacing so that
coding can be conducted in the next step. The second stage includes gaining familiarity with the
help of interview, transcript, audio recording along any contextual reflective notes. In the 3rd
stage, coding is done. In this stage, the researcher cautiously goes through the transcript by
applying a paraphrase which describes what has been interpreted in the passage (Liu, 2016).
Codes can be defined as things that are substantive, values emotion as well as more
impressionistic elements. The fourth stage of framework analysis includes developing an
effective working analytic framework. After completion of coding, labels are compared by the
researchers that have been applied to a set of codes for applying to all subsequent transcripts. In
the next stage the analytical framework has been applied with the help of indexing subsequent
transcript using the existing categories as well as codes. Each of the codes includes a number that
is assigned for easy identification. During the last stage of framework analysis, the researchers
interpret the data collected from the patient. In case the data is rich enough, the findings
generated with the help of this process possess the potential to go beyond the description of
specific cases for explanation of reasons for phenomenon emergence, predicting how social
actors are likely to prompt to a situation (Yilmaz & Flouris, 2019).
When it comes to Interpretative phenomenological analysis, it can be defined as an approach
to psychological qualitative research that focuses on offering insights into the process by which a
given individual makes sense of an arbitrary phenomenon. According to researchers, one of the