[Futuregen] Qualitative study and involvement of the Sounding Board for newsletter

Mon Feb 17 08:07:42 CET 2020

Dear all,

Attached you will find a new version of the document Janet kindly sent 
around, with some additions that try to clarify a bit what we discussed 
in our last zoom on the topic. We did not change so much what Janet 
proposed at its core, but added some more details on what exactly we 
might be able to achieve with this based on our previous discussions

This is a work in progress, so I would kindly ask all of you to read it 
and add your comments or proposed changes. Please circulate this in 
reply to this e-mail, till end of the day of tomorrow. Please feel free 
to disagree, if you think some of the proposals in the text are too far 
from what we discussed or would like to do.

We will use the document with the changes and comments to base our 
discussion on Wed.

A kind reminder: the zoom starts at 13h30 CET on Wed.

Looking forward!

Best wishes,

Ricardo

On 14.02.2020 10:06, rodrigues at euro.centre.org wrote:
> Dear Janet,
>
> Thank you very much for the additional information you sent us on the 
> scope and aims of the qualitative study. I think this is really 
> helpful and takes us forward in the qualitative study.
>
> We will probably need to discuss this further in our next zoom next 
> week (tentative agenda to follow shortly), so that can hopefully have 
> the qual settle in the next couple of weeks.
>
> My proposal to move forward with this and build on what you sent and 
> what we started to agree on during our last zoom, is for us in Vienna 
> to circulate a new version of the aims/methods of the qual study that 
> you sent, with some additional tentative details (end of today or 
> early morning on Monday).
> We would then kindly ask all the other partners to add/change to this 
> - or to flag disagreements - by e-mail ahead of our zoom.
> This would give us a working document on which to base our discussion 
> during the zoom, which I hope it would help us move forward.
>
> Would this OK with you?
>
> Thanks a lot in advance.
>
> Best wishes,
> Ricardo
>
>
> On 2020-02-06 01:02, Janet Jull wrote:
>> Hi Everyone, I am sending again as Susan was not included on the
>> original email.
>>  Best wishes, Janet
>>
>>  JANET JULL, OT REG (ONT), PHD
>>
>>  Assistant Professor, School of Rehabilitation Therapy,
>>  Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
>>  janet.jull at queensu.ca
>>
>>  Doctor of Science in Rehabilitation and Health Leadership (DSc RHL)
>>
>>  https://rehab.queensu.ca/academic-programs/dsc [1]
>>
>>  Affiliate Investigator, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
>>
>>  Ottawa, Ontario
>>
>>  Queen's University is situated on traditional Anishinaabe and
>> Haudenosaunee Territory.
>>
>> -------------------------
>>
>> FROM: Janet Jull <janet.jull at queensu.ca>
>> SENT: February 5, 2020 7:01 PM
>> TO: Ricardo Rodrigues <rodrigues at euro.centre.org>;
>> futuregen at euro.centre.org <futuregen at euro.centre.org>
>> SUBJECT: Re: [Futuregen] Qualitative study and involvement of the
>> Sounding Board for newsletter
>>
>>  Hi Ricardo,
>>
>>  Thanks so much for the message and update!
>>
>>  I would suggest that at the meeting in May, the involvement of the SB
>> could be discussed and determined. I worry about making the assumption
>> that they are working as a collective - perhaps some of them might
>> want more or less involvment. At the last meeting, when we met them
>> (spring, 2019) we had looked at terms of reference together et cetera
>> (ways of working together). Perhaps the terms of reference document
>> has not progressed since then, and the May meeting is our chance to
>> revisit how we might work together on the qualitative study. To engage
>> a group like the SB means that they need to be in agreement with the
>> process and we might need to figure out what that process is,
>> together.
>>
>>  What I would propose is that a short update on the qualitative study
>> be shared, in advance of the meeting (see draft, below).
>>
>>  Perhaps we can have a call with them prior to the meeting? That might
>> be an opportunity to see what their interest is in the study. Then, at
>> the May meeting there can be concrete steps taken to make some
>> decisons, and get their feedback.
>>
>>  Note: I use terms of reference documents to help groups like the SB
>> to know what the expectations are - and if we coproduce these
>> expectations and agree (versus my telling them) then there is terrific
>> buy in and support. I am resending the terms of reference slide from
>> last spring and that was discussed with the SB. I think that we could
>> use this slide or a version of it, at the meeting, in advance of
>> talking about the study.
>>
>>  An important feature of the qualitative study is that we have some
>> results that we want to focus on and obtain feedback on from older
>> adults. So those results will need to be ready for May!
>>
>>  As well, it seems that I might be able to attend the meeting in May!
>>
>>  Susan thinks that the budget is going to allow this, so that may make
>> the launch of this qualitative study easier.
>>  I really liked the SB members and would be happy to spend time with
>> them again, in person, to get our study launched.
>>
>>  Best wishes,
>>  Janet
>>
>>  Ricardo, please feel free to make modifications to the draft ,below,
>> to better reflect the team thoughts on the study.
>>  The Terms of Reference slide is following in another email.
>>
>>  Outline for a proposed qualitative study - for discussion
>>
>> BACKGROUND: The experiences and perspectives of knowledge users may be
>> used to provide many insights about the findings from methods studies
>> of population data sets. A qualitative study is proposed to engage
>> members of an older (age range) population as key informants in
>> interviews to reflect on and verify data from the methods study, and
>> the findings that are related to health and aging (details will be
>> needed from each WP). Additionally, the qualitative study will
>> contribute insights to complement the data from the quantitative
>> studies that can be used to generate new ideas.
>>
>> METHODS: A qualitative study that uses the framework analysis method
>> will be conducted in collaboration with an international study team
>> and a sounding board team. In-depth semi-structured interviews will be
>> conducted with a purposive sample of key informants who span
>> gender(s), a range of older ages, socioeconomic status, education
>> (detail). Transcripts will be coded and analyzed using the seven-stage
>> framework analysis method. Data from the qualitative study will be
>> reported and will reflect the key informant findings. The findings
>> from the key informant study will be used to verify the results from
>> methods studies examining aspects of health, aging and gender.
>>
>> CONCLUSIONS: Key informant interviews will be used to verify and to
>> possibly identify new concepts that were not generated in the methods
>> studies, and to develop policy briefs(?). We encourage the use of key
>> informant interviews as a complement to methods studies of data-sets
>> to obtain and include the real-life expertise of knowledge users on
>> findings.
>>
>>  JANET JULL, OT REG (ONT), PHD
>>
>>  Assistant Professor, School of Rehabilitation Therapy,
>>  Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
>>  janet.jull at queensu.ca
>>
>>  Doctor of Science in Rehabilitation and Health Leadership (DSc RHL)
>>
>>  https://rehab.queensu.ca/academic-programs/dsc [1]
>>
>>  Affiliate Investigator, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
>>
>>  Ottawa, Ontario
>>
>>  Queen's University is situated on traditional Anishinaabe and
>> Haudenosaunee Territory.
>>
>> -------------------------
>>
>> FROM: Futuregen <futuregen-bounces at euro.centre.org> on behalf of
>> Ricardo Rodrigues <rodrigues at euro.centre.org>
>> SENT: February 4, 2020 6:28 AM
>> TO: futuregen at euro.centre.org <futuregen at euro.centre.org>
>> SUBJECT: [Futuregen] Qualitative study and involvement of the Sounding
>> Board for newsletter
>>
>> Dear Janet,
>>
>> We have posted the minutes of our last zoom on Freedcamp.
>>
>> We had agreed that you would propose a specific way of involving the
>> SB
>> in implementing the qualitative study. I was wondering if you could
>> send
>> around a proposal for this in the next couple of days (e.g. till
>> Thursday), please?
>>
>> As we are preparing the newsletter for the SB, I was also thinking
>> this
>> would be a good time and way to inform the SB that we would expect
>> their
>> involvement in the process leading to the qualitative study and give
>> some (minor) information about what this involvement might look like.
>> We
>> would not need to give too many details at this stage. What do you
>> think
>> of this?
>>
>> For us all, it would also be good to provide some information about
>> the
>> scope/focus of the qualitative study in our WP4 news for the
>> newsletter.
>>
>> Looking forward to your replies and suggestions.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Ricardo
>>
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