{"id":1732,"date":"2016-01-20T03:48:31","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T02:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/?p=1732"},"modified":"2016-01-20T03:48:31","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T02:48:31","slug":"focusing-on-the-why-and-the-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/2016\/01\/20\/focusing-on-the-why-and-the-how\/","title":{"rendered":"Focusing on the ‘why’ and the ‘how’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I draw attention to a recent post \u00a0from The BMJ blog<\/a>\u00a0–\u00a0Chris Baker: Child obesity in India? Tell me something I don\u2019t know!<\/a>\u00a0as it struck me as\u00a0relevant to the field of injury prevention.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The BMJ blog post centres around the fact that only\u00a0two qualitative studies have been published in the\u00a0past 15 years on the issue of child obesity in India, with the majority of research being prevalence studies – and concludes:<\/p>\n

…let us divert resources away from the \u201cwhat\u201d and \u201cwho\u201d of child obesity towards the \u201cwhy\u201d and \u201chow.\u201d These questions require the application of qualitative research methods with families and health professionals to explore the lived experience of being overweight or obese, and the broader social and cultural beliefs related to this growing burden.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As we know, and as a quick search for qualitative studies in Injury Prevention<\/em>\u00a0shows<\/a>, our field does indeed recognise the importance of qualitative work, with\u00a0skilled researchers using qualitative methods to answer the types of ‘why’ and ‘how’ questions that we encounter with regards to our injury prevention interventions.<\/p>\n

Over and beyond the qualitative\/quantitative debate however, this blog post struck me as pertinent to readers of\u00a0Injury Prevention\u00a0<\/em>as it raises the important point of relevancy<\/strong>. Relevancy of methods to the research question, and relevancy of research questions to the population.<\/p>\n

Relevancy matters.<\/p>\n

Do make sure to read the post for thought-provoking points that are raised as to the types of questions we should be asking, and thus the\u00a0deeper issues that we can seek to uncover and address through our intervention research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I draw attention to a recent post \u00a0from The BMJ blog\u00a0–\u00a0Chris Baker: Child obesity in India? Tell me something I don\u2019t know!\u00a0as it struck me as\u00a0relevant to the field of injury prevention.\u00a0 The BMJ blog post centres around the fact that only\u00a0two qualitative studies have been published in the\u00a0past 15 years on the […]<\/p>\n

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