conclusions the results clarified a deep perception of participants’ experiences after disaster. the path of life recovery after disasters involves participants’ striving to achieve a comprehensive health recovery, which starts with the need for all-inclusive health recovery as a main concern; this is the motivator for a responding strategy. this strategy is participatory, and the process is pr...

The purpose of this paper is to understand and evaluate some basic concepts that are related to the Grounded Theory Method of investigation. The work is also extended to highlight how this method might be utilized to generate a theory. The data collection was based on a review of the relevant extant literature and some document analysis. A number of interviews were also carried out to shed furt...

BACKGROUND Grounded theory methodology is a suitable qualitative research approach for clinical inquiry into nursing practice, leading to theory development in nursing. Given the variations in, and subjectivity attached to, the manner in which qualitative research is carried out, it is important for researchers to explain the process of how a theory about a nursing phenomenon was generated. Sim...

This paper presents the results of a study of how software process and software process improvement (SPI) is applied in actual practice in the software industry using the indigenous Irish software product industry as a test-bed. The study used the grounded theory methodology to produce a theory, grounded in the field data, that explains how software processes are formed and evolve and when and ...

With insight grounded in his work for a national data collection consortium and as Vice President of Quality and Outcomes at the Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, the author connects the theory of pay-for-performance to the realities of its implementation. The author expands the Diagnosing the Data conversation by describing the challenges of collecting meaningful data and by addressing the pot...

introduction: regarding the social and economic changes and developments, the increasing presence of working women in the present society and their important role in the family, paying more attentions to the importance of maternal role among working women who face multiple roles seems to be necessary. hence, the process of maternal role among working women has been investigated in this study. m...

Although qualitative methods, grounded theory included, cannot be reduced to formulaic procedures, research tools can clarify the process. The authors discuss two instruments supporting grounded theory analysis and interpretation using two examples from doctoral students. The conditional relationship guide contextualizes the central phenomenon and relates categories linking structure with proce...

conclusions retirement is an essential part of the work life cycle. awareness of the factors that influence adjustment to retirement is vital to facilitate this process and to improve the health of retired health care providers. results during data analysis, five themes emerged: “identity threat”, “negative interaction”, “identity reconstruction”, “supporting factors” and “normal life”. in addi...