TY - JOUR
T1 - Reframing Integration for Mixed Methods Research
AU - Lynam, Timothy
AU - Damayanti, Rita
AU - Rialine Titaley, Christiana
AU - Suharno, Nugroho
AU - Bradley, Mark
AU - Krentel, Alison
N1 - Funding Information:
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1400-2587 Lynam Timothy 1 2 Damayanti Rita 3 Rialine Titaley Christiana 3 Suharno Nugroho 3 Bradley Mark 4 Krentel Alison 5 1 James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia 2 Reflecting Society, Australia 3 Universitas Indonesia, Depok, Jawa Barat, Indonesia 4 GlaxoSmithKline, GSK House, Brentford, London, UK 5 London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK Timothy Lynam, Department of Social Sciences, College of Arts, Society and Education, James Cook University, 4811, Townsville, Queensland, Australia. Email: tim.lynam@reflectingsociety.org 10 2019 1558689819879352 © The Author(s) 2019 2019 SAGE Publications We suggest and illustrate from our experiences of integration in a public health context in Indonesia, a reframing of integration for mixed methods research that focuses on context, outcomes, objects, and integrative mechanisms. Through describing the tools and conceptualizations that helped us integrate, we argue for expanding the scope of integration to include social process methods (which we describe) and for rethinking the desired outcomes of integration. The article contributes to the field of mixed methods research by proposing: (a) a new framing of integration that supports greater precision as well as an expanded scope over what and how integration could be implemented, (b) a set of theoretical and conceptual models to support integration, and (c) a new and fully integrated data collection instrument. integration social outcomes integrative mechanisms social representations mass drug administration cognitive integration GlaxoSmithKline https://doi.org/10.13039/100004330 Grant to the Task Force for Global Health edited-state corrected-proof We are grateful for the assistance and support from the administrative and research staff at the University of Indonesia, the District Health Office and the LF Elimination teams from Agam District and the Cities of Depok and Batam. We would also like to offer our sincere thanks to the Ministry of Health, Subdirectorate for the Elimination of Lymphatic Filariasis for their support and assistance, and to RTI Envision, Jakarta. Comments from Sarah Funkhouser, as well as three anonymous reviewers and the journal editors helped improve the article. Declaration of Conflicting Interests The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. Funding The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Funding for the project was provided by a grant from GlaxoSmithKline to the Task Force for Global Health. ORCID iD Timothy Lynam https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1400-2587
Funding Information:
We are grateful for the assistance and support from the administrative and research staff at the University of Indonesia, the District Health Office and the LF Elimination teams from Agam District and the Cities of Depok and Batam. We would also like to offer our sincere thanks to the Ministry of Health, Subdirectorate for the Elimination of Lymphatic Filariasis for their support and assistance, and to RTI Envision, Jakarta. Comments from Sarah Funkhouser, as well as three anonymous reviewers and the journal editors helped improve the article. The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Funding for the project was provided by a grant from GlaxoSmithKline to the Task Force for Global Health.
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PY - 2019/1/1
Y1 - 2019/1/1
N2 - We suggest and illustrate from our experiences of integration in a public health context in Indonesia, a reframing of integration for mixed methods research that focuses on context, outcomes, objects, and integrative mechanisms. Through describing the tools and conceptualizations that helped us integrate, we argue for expanding the scope of integration to include social process methods (which we describe) and for rethinking the desired outcomes of integration. The article contributes to the field of mixed methods research by proposing: (a) a new framing of integration that supports greater precision as well as an expanded scope over what and how integration could be implemented, (b) a set of theoretical and conceptual models to support integration, and (c) a new and fully integrated data collection instrument.
AB - We suggest and illustrate from our experiences of integration in a public health context in Indonesia, a reframing of integration for mixed methods research that focuses on context, outcomes, objects, and integrative mechanisms. Through describing the tools and conceptualizations that helped us integrate, we argue for expanding the scope of integration to include social process methods (which we describe) and for rethinking the desired outcomes of integration. The article contributes to the field of mixed methods research by proposing: (a) a new framing of integration that supports greater precision as well as an expanded scope over what and how integration could be implemented, (b) a set of theoretical and conceptual models to support integration, and (c) a new and fully integrated data collection instrument.
KW - cognitive integration
KW - integration
KW - integrative mechanisms
KW - mass drug administration
KW - social outcomes
KW - social representations
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85074556879&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1558689819879352
DO - 10.1177/1558689819879352
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85074556879
VL - 14
SP - 336
EP - 357
JO - Journal of Mixed Methods Research
JF - Journal of Mixed Methods Research
SN - 1558-6898
IS - 3
ER -
