View: Full Record   Author: Rich, Michael; Patashnick, Jennifer L. » Save Citation » Email Citation » View CMCH Synopsis Year: 2002 Article Title: Narrative research with audiovisual data: Video Intervention/Prevention Assessment (VIA) and NVivo Journal: International Journal of Social Research Methodology Volume: 5 Edition: 3 Issue: 5 Pages: 245-261 ISBN/ISSN: 1364-5579 Source of Funding: National Institute for Child Health and Human Developtment grant # K23 HD01296; project grant from the Deborah Munroe Noonan Memorial Fund. Study Design: Descriptive/Historical Theory Publication Type: Journal Article Age Group: Adolescence (13-17 yrs), Childhood (birth-12 yrs), School Age (6-12 yrs) URL: Abstract: Objective: To examine the subjective, adolescent experience of chronic illnesses through the collection of visual illness narratives and software-based qualitative analysis. Design: Qualitative study using Video Intervention/Prevention Assessment (VIA). Participants complete condition-specific verbal report (CSVR) regarding medical history and psychosocial information, as well as health-related quality of life measurement (HRQL). Participants then create visual illness narrative over 4-8 weeks, using hand-held camcorder, and documenting daily life activities, illness-related experiences, personal monologues, and interviews with family and friends. Audiovisual data is logged as objective descriptions (emotionally neutral information) and subjective accounts (responsive interpretations) by multiple researchers using NVivo, qualitative analysis software. Subjects and Setting: Adolescents with asthma, obesity, spina bifida, and sickle cell disease. Recruited from urban pediatric hospital. Intervention(s): N/A Outcome Measure(s): Health-affecting features of participants' physical and psychological environments, personal relationships, and medical self-management. Comparison of narrative features with results of CSVR and HRQL. Results: VIA provided an opportunity to observe disease in its "real life manifestations," supplying both objective information about participants' lives and subjective information about the thoughts, feelings, and beliefs of participants as they experience illness. This information included illustrations of physical and psychological environments, personal relationships, and medical self-management. Data from VIA provides a life context for HRQL results and enables researchers to evaluate the reliability of recall/report in CSVR. Conclusion: The VIA visual narratives and the corresponding coded logs generated by NVivo provide important insight into the real-life illness experiences of adolescents with chronic diseases through their illustration of physical and psychological environments, personal relationships, and medical self-management. © Center on Media and Child Health Keywords: Adolescent Attitudes Adolescents Anthropology Child Attitudes Children Chronic Illness Chronic Illness (Media Content) Computers Media Production Patients Pediatrics Physician's Role Physicians Sociology Video Cameras Videotapes

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