School of Adult Nursing and Midwifery, London South Bank University, London, England.
Competency Test Centre, University of Northampton Innovation Centre, Northampton, England.
Nurse Res. 2021 Jun 10;29(2):25-32. doi: 10.7748/nr.2021.e1729. Epub 2021 Feb 11.
The use of photo-elicitation interviews (PEIs) has increased in popularity across a range of disciplines including healthcare. Although qualitative researchers have embraced PEIs as a creative way to explore people's experiences of their lives and environments, the methodological and practical aspects of using photographs have received little attention in the literature.
To discuss the use of PEI techniques, including sourcing and using photographs.
The authors discuss definitions of photo-elicitation, and explore the value of and difference between using photographs taken by the researcher and those taken by participants. They consider methodological issues in the context of a small-scale focus group study that used PEIs to explore young women's conceptualisations of teenage and older motherhood.
Using photographs in research is far more complex than providing participants with cameras or presenting them with photographs. Researchers must be aware of the potential bias in the choice, selection and sequencing of photographs, as well as the methodological considerations associated with PEIs.
This article highlights the value of using photographs in qualitative research and presents some of the methodological issues that nurse researchers need to consider when designing and conducting research using photographs.
照片引出访谈（PEIs）在包括医疗保健在内的多个学科中的应用越来越受欢迎。尽管定性研究人员将 PEIs 视为一种富有创意的方式来探索人们的生活和环境体验，但在文献中，照片的方法学和实际方面却很少受到关注。
讨论使用 PEI 技术，包括照片的来源和使用。
作者讨论了照片引出的定义，并探讨了使用研究人员拍摄的照片和参与者拍摄的照片的价值和区别。他们考虑了在一个小规模焦点小组研究中使用 PEIs 来探讨年轻女性对少女和老年母亲身份的概念化的背景下的方法学问题。
在研究中使用照片远比为参与者提供相机或向他们展示照片复杂得多。研究人员必须意识到在照片的选择、选择和排序中存在潜在的偏见，以及与 PEIs 相关的方法学考虑因素。
本文强调了在定性研究中使用照片的价值，并提出了护士研究人员在使用照片设计和进行研究时需要考虑的一些方法学问题。
