Searight H R, Campbell D C
Department of Family Medicine, Deaconess Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri 63139.
Fam Pract Res J. 1992 Dec;12(4):369-82.
Ethnography is a qualitative research model generally associated with anthropology. Ethnographic methods include inductively oriented strategies such as participant observation, structured interviews, and open-ended interviews. Issues in family medicine such as patient compliance, doctor-patient relationships, and patients' subjective experience of illness may be optimally studied with ethnography. Because it is inductive, ethnography is cognitively similar to clinical reasoning. Making use of ethnography provides family physicians with a greater array of research methods compatible with clinical practice.
人种志是一种通常与人类学相关的定性研究模式。人种志方法包括归纳导向的策略，如参与观察、结构化访谈和开放式访谈。家庭医学中的问题，如患者依从性、医患关系以及患者对疾病的主观体验，可能用人种志进行最佳研究。由于人种志是归纳性的，它在认知上与临床推理相似。运用人种志为家庭医生提供了更多与临床实践兼容的研究方法。
