Digital Health, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, 14482, Potsdam, Germany.
Institute of Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, 10117, Berlin, Germany.
J Relig Health. 2024 Oct;63(5):3360-3373. doi: 10.1007/s10943-023-01929-x. Epub 2023 Oct 25.
Approaches to integrating mixed methods into medical research are gaining popularity. To get a holistic understanding of the effects of behavioural interventions, we investigated religious fasting using a triangulation of quantitative, qualitative, and natural language analysis. We analysed an observational study of Bahá'í fasting in Germany using a between-method triangulation that is based on links between qualitative and quantitative analyses. Individual interviews show an increase in the mindfulness and well-being categories. Sentiment scores, extracted from the interviews through natural language processing, positively correlate with questionnaire outcomes on quality of life (WHO-5: Spearman correlation r = 0.486, p = 0.048). Five questionnaires contribute to the first principal component capturing the spectrum of mood states (50.1% explained variance). Integrating the findings of the between-method triangulation enabled us to converge on the underlying effects of this kind of intermittent fasting. TRIAL REGISTRATION: NCT03443739.
将混合方法融入医学研究的方法越来越受到欢迎。为了全面了解行为干预的效果，我们使用定量、定性和自然语言分析的三重交叉方法研究了宗教禁食。我们使用基于定性和定量分析之间联系的方法间三角测量，对德国巴哈伊禁食的观察性研究进行了分析。个体访谈显示，在正念和幸福感方面有所增加。通过自然语言处理从访谈中提取的情感评分与生活质量问卷结果呈正相关（WHO-5：Spearman 相关 r=0.486，p=0.048）。五个问卷有助于捕捉情绪状态谱的第一个主成分（解释方差 50.1%）。整合方法间三角测量的结果使我们能够得出这种间歇性禁食的潜在效果。试验注册：NCT03443739。
