Department of Veterans Affairs, Birmingham VA Medical Center, Birmingham, Alabama 35233, USA.
Qual Health Res. 2011 Jun;21(6):830-8. doi: 10.1177/1049732311402095. Epub 2011 Mar 10.
Qualitative researchers who explore the individual's experience of health, illness, death, and dying often experience emotional stress in their work. In this article, we describe the emotional stress we experienced while coding semistructured, after-death interviews conducted with 38 next of kin of deceased veterans. Coding sensitive topic data required an unexpected level of emotional labor, the impact of which has not been addressed in the literature. In writing this discussion article, we stepped back from our roles as interviewers/coders and reflected on how our work affected us individually and as a team, and how a sequence of exposures could exert a cumulative effect for researchers in such a dual role. Through this article, we hope to generate an expanded discourse on how qualitative inquiry impacts the emotional well-being of researchers.
从事健康、疾病、死亡和临终个体体验研究的定性研究人员在工作中常常会经历情绪压力。在本文中，我们描述了在对 38 名已故退伍军人的近亲进行半结构化死后访谈时所经历的情绪压力。对敏感主题数据进行编码需要进行意想不到的情感劳动，而文献中并未涉及这种影响。在撰写这篇讨论文章时，我们从访谈者/编码员的角色中退一步，反思我们的工作如何对我们个人和团队产生影响，以及一系列的经历如何对担任这种双重角色的研究人员产生累积影响。通过本文，我们希望引发关于定性研究如何影响研究人员的情感健康的更广泛讨论。
