Ethnographic methods for process evaluations of complex health behaviour interventions

• Published in: Current controlled trials in cardiovascular medicine Vol. 17; no. 1; p. 232
• Main Authors: Morgan-Trimmer, Sarah, Wood, Fiona
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 04.05.2016; BioMed Central
• Subjects: Anthropology; Anthropology, Cultural; Cultural anthropology; Cultural Characteristics; Culture; Data collection; Ethnography; Health behavior; Health Behavior - ethnology; Health counseling; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice - ethnology; Humans; Intervention; Methods; Models, Theoretical; Process Assessment (Health Care) - methods; Public health; Qualitative Research; Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic - methods; Reproducibility of Results; Research Design; Research Subjects - psychology; Social Behavior; Treatment Outcome; United Kingdom; United States > US; Chicago Illinois; Qualitative research; Ethnography; Randomised controlled trials; Complex interventions

This article outlines the contribution that ethnography could make to process evaluations for trials of complex health-behaviour interventions. Process evaluations are increasingly used to examine how health-behaviour interventions operate to produce outcomes and often employ qualitative methods to...