Challenges and Mitigation Strategies in Qualitative Data Collection

This assignment delves into the challenges encountered by public health professionals when collecting qualitative data, particularly within community settings. The student's work addresses issues such as interdisciplinary collaboration, ensuring the dissemination of research findings, and ethical considerations related to participant privacy and data security. The assignment highlights the importance of effective communication, engagement strategies, and the use of visual aids to ensure the relevance and usefulness of research outcomes for the community. It examines the use of focus groups, interviews and observations, and the strategies that can be used to mitigate challenges such as participant apprehension, lack of engagement, and ensuring data integrity. References to relevant literature support the analysis, providing a comprehensive understanding of the complexities and best practices in qualitative data collection within the field of public health.

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Challenges in Qualitative Data Collection
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Part 1
Public health professionals often opt for community based participatory research with
qualitative data collection. There are several benefits associated with qualitative data, as it
presents the originally perceived thoughts of the community and brings transparency to the
study, leading to completeness, better understandability and study evaluability. The current
trends of the qualitative data collection are more inclined towards becoming interdisciplinary
or trans-disciplinary. Coping with the purity and demands of the different disciplines comes
out to be one great challenge for the healthcare professionals conducting qualitative studies in
community settings (Rimando et al., 2015). The most suited way of addressing this challenge
is to ensure adequate collaboration of the members from the different disciplines and attempt
to integrate the key ideas from all the concerned disciplines.
Another significant challenging aspect in the qualitative studies is to ensure proper
dissemination of the data in the particular community. Data and research finding
dissemination is a crucial procedure which fulfills the objectives of the study by interacting
with the stakeholders from the community and delivering the highlights and key findings
from the study. The dissemination procedure needs to be engaging, imaginative, and other
procedures to make the findings relevant and useful for the community (Holden et al., 2016).
One emerging practice that mitigates this challenge, is the use of visual art in the
presentations. Engaging the stakeholders should be the primary motive and visual aids along
with speeches can be primary tactics when in suitable community settings.

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References
Holden, R. J., Scott, A. M. M., Hoonakker, P. L., Hundt, A. S., & Carayon, P. (2015). Data
collection challenges in community settings: Insights from two field studies of
patients with chronic disease. Quality of Life Research, 24(5), 1043-1055.
Rimando, M., Brace, A. M., Namageyo-Funa, A., Parr, T. L., Sealy, D. A., Davis, T. L., ... &
Christiana, R. W. (2015). Data collection challenges and recommendations for early
career researchers. The Qualitative Report, 20(12), 2025-2036.