Centre for Health Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, 2 Newark Street, London E1 2AT, United Kingdom.
Qual Health Res. 2010 May;20(5):595-606. doi: 10.1177/1049732309354094. Epub 2009 Dec 15.
We report a comparative keyword analysis of interviews and Internet postings involving people with breast and prostate cancer and discussion of sexual health. Interviewees produce retrospective accounts, their content guided by interviewers' questions, which might elicit rich biographical and contextual details. Internet exchanges concern participants' current experiences and contain detailed accounts of disease processes, medical procedures, bodily processes, and, in the case of sexual health, sexual practices. They are used by participants to exchange information and support in a relatively anonymous context. Because of the ease with which large amounts of such archived Internet materials can be accessed and analyzed, this source has considerable potential for direct observation of illness experiences, although some disadvantages also exist. This reverses an earlier situation where observational research was more laborious than qualitative interviews. Observational material for research purposes is, through the Internet, now easy to obtain and produces naturalistic data.
我们报告了一项关于涉及乳腺癌和前列腺癌患者的访谈和互联网帖子的比较关键词分析，以及对性健康问题的讨论。受访者提供回顾性叙述，其内容由采访者的问题引导，这可能引出丰富的传记和背景细节。互联网交流涉及参与者的当前经历，并包含对疾病过程、医疗程序、身体过程的详细描述，在性健康方面，还包括性行为。参与者在相对匿名的环境中使用它们来交流信息和支持。由于可以轻松访问和分析大量此类存档的互联网材料，因此这种来源具有直接观察疾病经历的巨大潜力，尽管也存在一些缺点。这扭转了早期观察性研究比定性访谈更费力的局面。现在，通过互联网可以轻松获得研究目的的观察性材料，并产生自然主义数据。
