Draucker Claire Burke, Al-Khattab Halima, Hines Dana D, Mazurczyk Jill, Russell Anne C, Stephenson Pam Shockey, Draucker Shannon
Mental Health Nursing at Indiana University School of Nursing in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
Indiana University School of Nursing in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
Qual Rep. 2014 Apr 28;19(17).
National initiatives in the United States call for health research that addresses racial/ethnic disparities. Although grounded theory (GT) research has the potential to contribute much to the understanding of the health experiences of people of color, the extent to which it has contributed to health disparities research is unclear. In this article we describe a project in which we reviewed 44 GT studies published in Qualitative Health Research within the last five years. Using a framework proposed by Green, Creswell, Shope, and Clark (2007), we categorized the studies at one of four levels based on the status and significance afforded racial/ethnic diversity. Our results indicate that racial/ethnic diversity played a primary role in five studies, a complementary role in one study, a peripheral role in five studies, and an absent role in 33 studies. We suggest that GT research could contribute more to health disparities research if techniques were developed to better analyze the influence of race/ethnicity on health-related phenomena.
美国的国家倡议呼吁开展旨在解决种族/族裔差异问题的健康研究。尽管扎根理论（GT）研究有潜力为理解有色人种的健康经历做出很大贡献，但它对健康差异研究的贡献程度尚不清楚。在本文中，我们描述了一个项目，在该项目中我们回顾了过去五年在《定性健康研究》上发表的44项GT研究。使用格林、克雷斯韦尔、肖普和克拉克（2007年）提出的框架，我们根据赋予种族/族裔多样性的地位和重要性将这些研究分为四个级别之一。我们的结果表明，种族/族裔多样性在五项研究中起主要作用，在一项研究中起补充作用，在五项研究中起次要作用，在33项研究中未起作用。我们建议，如果开发出更好地分析种族/族裔对健康相关现象影响的技术，GT研究可以对健康差异研究做出更多贡献。
