Wednesday 4 May 2016

P4R2W5: Down to business



Sunrise at John Reid Hut, Kahurangi National Park (near Nelson)

Another week, another weekend tramp before winter sets in. I made my way under the cover of nightfall (headlamp and torch beaming) to John Reid Hut. Excellent overnight adventure! I then popped down to Waimate to spend a few days with my parents.

"Fear of falling was reported as a debilitating condition that brought on feelings of  worthlessness due to limiting activities of daily living, and feelings of being a burden on their family" (Honaker & Kretschmer, 2014).

This week, my research group really got down to business. I ended up fairly sick on Wednesday-Thursday, so wasn't able to contribute much. Here are some things that we did get done:
  • Extracting quote by quote, statement by statement, categorising them and analysing them (using an inductive analysis method). On Friday, we began our search for themes... we printed and cut out each of the quotes/statements and began sorting them into piles.
  • Writing a first full draft of the introduction & methods. 
  • I've grouped our included studies (the ones we will be analysing) into EndNote. EndNote is a citation / bibliography software which allows you to create your own library of articles (and attach .pdf copies of the articles). We can send these libraries to other EndNote users, insert citations and bibliographies directly into Microsoft Word. It's all pretty useful stuff. Here's what it looks like!
Endnote in use!




Only two weeks of research to go! Where has this time gone?!


References

Honaker, J. A. &  Kretschmer, L. W. (2014). Impact of fear of falling for patients and caregivers: Perceptions before and after participation in vestibular and balance rehabilitation. American Journal of Audiology, 23, 20-33. doi: 10.1044/1059-0889(2013/12-0074)

1 comment:

  1. Nice information about how astrology is important in our life to know.

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