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Table 1 Action-Project Method data collection and analysis process

From: Exploring nursing home resident and their care partner priorities for care using the Action-Project Method

Step

Who

Purpose

Data Collection

 Dyad Conversation

Nursing home resident and chosen care partnera

To discuss experiences within the nursing home and priorities for care

 Video-Recall

Individual participant with research team member

To provide meaning and context to the video-recorded dyad conversation

 Narrative Construction

Research team

To provide participants with a summary of the identified goals and actions

 Narrative Review

Individual participant with research team member

To provide additional meaning, if any, to identified goals and actions; to provide participants with the opportunity to correct and/or provide approval to each the single and joint narratives

Data Analysis

 Within Case Analysis

Pair of team members (per dyad)

To create a case summary describing dyad’s intentional framework, goals, and projects (individual and joint)

  •Code actions

  •Identify functional steps

  •Cross-check with narrative review

 Cross Case Analysis

Full team

To identify concordant and discordant findings, including common projects

  •Compare cases by dyad composition

  •Compare cases by random assignment

  1. aFamily member or staff