Good practice for conducting qualitative research with older people with early stage dementia
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This article aims to demonstrate good practice for conducting research with older people with early-stage dementia who have real-life experience of dementia. They still able to communicate their own experiences, opinions, feelings, and needs to others. They are still able to remember or recall relevant information to the study and can decide to participate in the study. This article draws on information from a review of the literature related to studies involving older people with dementia and from the author’s experiences conducting research studies with older people with early dementia.
Older people with early-stage dementia are considered vulnerable. The researcher must consider the sensitivity of the impacts of participating in the research study, including physical, mental, social, and spiritual aspects. However, this group of research subjects should be treated in the same way as other subjects. The aspects to consider include selection of participants to participate in a qualitative research study, providing study information and obtaining consent to participate in research, ethical risks in research and risk management, research methods, interview techniques, and considerations for conducting the research. All this to understand the perspectives, real-life experiences of living with early stage dementia, problems and needs of the older people with dementia who are the informants.
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บทความที่ได้รับการตีพิมพ์เป็นลิขสิทธิ์ของวิทยาลัยพยาบาลบรมราชชนนี จังหวัดนนทบุรี
ข้อความที่ปรากฏในบทความแต่ละเรื่องในวารสารวิชาการเล่มนี้เป็นความคิดเห็นส่วนตัวของผู้เขียนแต่ละท่านไม่เกี่ยวข้องกับวิทยาลัยพยาบาลบรมราชชนนี จังหวัดนนทบุรี และคณาจารย์ท่านอื่น ในวิทยาลัยฯ แต่อย่างใด ความรับผิดชอบองค์ประกอบทั้งหมดของบทความแต่ละเรื่องเป็นของผู้เขียนแต่ละท่าน หากมีความผิดพลาดใด ๆ ผู้เขียนแต่ละท่านจะรับผิดชอบบทความของตนเองแต่ผู้เดียว
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