I'm currently collecting longitudinal repetitive quantitative measures (survey tool has been developed based on initial qualitative data - exploratory sequential) from the same population (n=39) to understand patients' perception of a health problem, once they experience it during a 14-month trajectory. Also, my idea is to use the initial qualitative data (used to develop the tool), to contextualise the prospective longitudinal information about health problems obtained from this quantitative tool. Considering that the health problems, their severity and their perceptions experienced along the trajectory are very individualistic, are there any mixed-method approaches that allow interpretation of findings at an individual level? Can one simply present, interpret and discuss individual data from the whole sample?
Can you say more about how you would collect individual data from the whole sample?
It is basically a weekly questionnaire that calculates the severity of a health problem (if any) based on 4 questions ( the score obtained from each question are added to calculate the total severity of the reported health problem for that week). Every week, the same participants answer these four questions to calculate the trajectory of each health problem (based on its severity) during the 14-months. Also, whenever participants report a health problem, based on these questions, they have to answer whether they perceive themselves injured (yes or no question).
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It sounds like all your longitudinal data is quantitative, so other than the exploratory sequential design, I'm not sure where mixed methods fits in.
I've collected qualitative before quantitative to modify the existing survey (to enhance face validity) and to contextualize quantitative data (embedding qualitative into quantitative)
Rather...I should have asked whether there are any methodological approaches in guiding the selection of individualised cases (quantitative data) from a group of individuals, to contextualise data through the embedding of qualitative data, obtained at the initial point. I would like to select particular cases for interpretation through a mixed-methods approach, as my qualitative data indicate that perceptions are individualistic, dynamic and temporal, with no one trajectory being the same as the other.
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