Gray Karen, Evans Simon Chester, Griffiths Amanda, Schneider Justine
Association for Dementia Studies, University of Worcester, UK.
Division of Psychiatry and Applied Psychology, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, UK.
Dementia (London). 2018 Aug;17(6):775-784. doi: 10.1177/1471301217734478. Epub 2017 Oct 5.
Methodological rigour, or its absence, is often a focus of concern for the emerging field of evaluation and research around arts and dementia. However, this paper suggests that critical attention should also be paid to the way in which individual perceptions, hidden assumptions and underlying social and political structures influence methodological work in the field. Such attention will be particularly important for addressing methodological challenges relating to contextual variability, ethics, value judgement and signification identified through a literature review on this topic. Understanding how, where and when evaluators and researchers experience such challenges may help to identify fruitful approaches for future evaluation.
方法的严谨性或其缺失，往往是围绕艺术与痴呆症的新兴评估与研究领域关注的焦点。然而，本文认为，还应批判性地关注个人观念、隐含假设以及潜在的社会和政治结构影响该领域方法学工作的方式。这种关注对于应对通过关于该主题的文献综述所确定的与情境变异性、伦理、价值判断和意义相关的方法学挑战尤为重要。了解评估者和研究者如何、在何处以及何时遇到这些挑战，可能有助于确定未来评估的有效方法。
