Janusz Bernadetta, Bobrzyński Jakub, Furgał Mariusz, de Barbaro Bogdan, Gdowska Katarzyna
Zakład Terapii Rodzin Katedry Psychiatrii UJ CM, Kraków.
Psychiatr Pol. 2010 Jan-Feb;44(1):5-11.
The authors present basic information about qualitative research along with its theoretical frame as a useful approach in the study of many issues in the area of psychiatry and psychotherapy. According to the authors, the quantitative methodology--dominant in psychiatry nowadays--seems insufficient to address all issues to be studied in this area. After a short introduction of the theoretical background of qualitative research, the authors present methods of collecting and analysing qualitative data and possible ways of using them in practice. In psychiatry, there are many complex psychotherapeutic methods used, their effects depending on many conditions, such as feelings and actions of patients and therapists. Hence, qualitative methods--which enable researchers to study the complexity of human interactions--seem to be well suited for psychiatric research. However, the authors conclude, the reason for choosing one or the other method should be practical rather than ideological; the methods indeed very often complete, rather than exclude each other, in research practice.
作者介绍了定性研究的基本信息及其理论框架，定性研究是研究精神病学和心理治疗领域诸多问题的一种有用方法。作者认为，目前在精神病学中占主导地位的定量方法似乎不足以解决该领域所有有待研究的问题。在简要介绍定性研究的理论背景之后，作者介绍了收集和分析定性数据的方法以及在实践中使用这些数据的可能方式。在精神病学中，使用了许多复杂的心理治疗方法，其效果取决于许多条件，如患者和治疗师的感受及行为。因此，定性方法——能够使研究人员研究人际互动的复杂性——似乎非常适合精神病学研究。然而，作者总结道，选择一种或另一种方法的原因应该是实际的而非意识形态的；在研究实践中，这些方法实际上常常相互补充而非相互排斥。
