McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Am J Mens Health. 2013 Mar;7(2):155-62. doi: 10.1177/1557988312464038. Epub 2012 Oct 22.
The semistructured, open-ended interview has become the gold standard for qualitative health research. Despite its strengths, the long interview is not well suited for studying topics that participants find difficult to discuss, or for working with those who have limited verbal communication skills. A lack of emotional expression among male research participants has repeatedly been described as a significant and pervasive challenge by health researchers in a variety of different fields. This article explores several prominent theories for men's emotional inexpression and relates them to qualitative health research. The authors argue that investigators studying emotionally sensitive topics with men should look beyond the long interview to methods that incorporate other modes of emotional expression. This article concludes with a discussion of several such photo-based methods, namely, Photovoice, Photo Elicitation, and Visual Storytelling.
半结构化、开放式访谈已成为定性健康研究的金标准。尽管这种方法有其优势，但长时间的访谈并不适合研究参与者觉得难以讨论的话题，也不适合与那些口头表达能力有限的人合作。在各种不同领域的健康研究人员反复描述，男性研究参与者缺乏情感表达是一个显著且普遍存在的挑战。本文探讨了几个关于男性情感表达不足的著名理论，并将其与定性健康研究联系起来。作者认为，研究具有情感敏感性的话题的研究人员不应仅仅局限于长时间的访谈，而应采用其他能够表达情感的方法。本文最后讨论了几种基于照片的方法，即影像心声、照片启发和视觉故事。
