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Poetic forms and structures in qualitative health research
1University of North Carolina at Charlotte, NC, USA.
Qualitative Health Research
|March 4, 2006
Summary
This study explores using poetic forms in qualitative health research. It demonstrates how patient poems can be transformed into "research poems" using specific structures like pantoum and tanka.
Area of Science:
- Arts and Humanities
- Health Sciences
- Qualitative Research Methods
Background:
- Poetry and the arts offer unique lenses for exploring human experiences.
- Qualitative health research seeks in-depth understanding of patient perspectives.
- Integrating artistic methods can enrich data interpretation in health studies.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the application of poetic forms within qualitative health research.
- To demonstrate the thematic analysis of a patient's poem from an emergency room experience.
- To illustrate the creation of
- research poems
- using established poetic structures.
Main Methods:
- Thematic analysis of a patient-authored poem.
- Creative synthesis of identified themes into new poetic forms.
- Utilizing the French-Malaysian pantoum and Japanese-inspired American tanka structures.
- Contextualizing the approach through literature on arts-based research.
Main Results:
- Identified key themes from the patient's emergency room experience poem.
- Successfully generated two distinct
- research poems
- based on the identified themes.
- Demonstrated the feasibility of translating qualitative data into poetic representations.
Conclusions:
- Poetic forms can serve as a valuable tool in qualitative health research.
- Arts-based methods, including poetry, can offer innovative ways to represent and understand health experiences.
- Further exploration of poetic methodologies in health research is warranted.
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