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Qual Quant (2012) 46:379390
DOI 10.1007/s11135-011-9551-9
Published online: 30 August 2011 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011
Abstract The aim of this paper is to review the usefulness of the software CAQDAS QSR Nvivo-6 in a PhD.Thesis, which consisted of nding the long-term psychological effects of experiences of imprisonment and torture for political reasons in their Chilean survivors. For this research, it was created and administered an in-depth interview to 60 survivors, from which outcome was 9900 paragraphs, coded into 784 categories. The software QSR Nvivo-6 threw a report of frequencies, which were compared quantitatively using Pearsons 2 square test and cluster analysis. We conclude that the software facilitates the development of qualitative thematic content analysis, simplifying the coding, analysis and display of data. In Addition, it is very useful when working with large quantities of information, promoting the reliability and validity of studies. However, other aspects are also required to ensure the rigor of a qualitative study.
Keywords Long-term effect Torture CAQDAS Political prisson
Chilean survivors Mixed methods
P. Zapata-Seplveda (B)
Departamento de Filosofa y Psicologa (Centro de Investigacin e Intervencin Psicosocial),Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Jurdicas, Universidad de Tarapac, 18 de Septiembre, 2222, Arica, Chile e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]
F. Lpez-Snchez
Departamento de Psicologa Evolutiva y de la Educacin, Facultad de Psicologa, Universidad de Salamanca, Av. De la Merced, 109131, Salamanca, 37005 CP, Spain e-mail: [email protected]
M. C. Snchez-Gmez
Departamento de Didctica, Facultad de Educacin, Organizacin y Mtodos de Investigacin, Universidad de Salamanca, Paseo Canalejas, 169, Salamanca, 37008 CP, Spaine-mail: [email protected]
Content analysis research method with Nvivo-6 software in a PhD thesis: an approach to the long-term psychological effects on Chilean ex-prisoners survivors of experiences of torture and imprisonment
Pamela Zapata-Seplveda Flix Lpez-Snchez
Mara Cruz Snchez-Gmez
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1 Introduction
In contrast to the studies of these sequels in the surviving population of such events in other countries (e.g., Corrado and Tompkins 1989; Shrestha et al. 1998; Sagi-Schwartz et al. 2003), effects of long-term psychological sequels of traumatic experiences such as political violence and torture have not been studied systematically in their Chilean survivors (Zapata 2008), being the victims of the holocaust and political refugees in European countries, the most studied in scientic literature, with the global trend to the study...