The prospective, longitudinal study conducted by Rattray et al. (2010) reported that there were no significant …show more content…
It was a tedious and time-consuming process. It required patience and skills to organize the data in-depth. But what I found the most difficult was to stick with the data without changing the meaning of it. In fact, I caught myself trying to theorize my understanding of the articles instead of simply grouping them many times. The reason was that I enjoyed reading these research articles because I picked the theme that I have always been curious. Also because it was very much relevant to my practice, it was even harder to dissociate my experience from these research findings. At that point, my perspective unconsciously became that of a “research consumer” (LoBiondo-Wood & Haber, 2013, p. 95) rather than that of a researcher. To keep objective mindset, I repeatedly questioned myself whether the sentence I just wrote was my interpretation or accurate to the fact listed in the original article. Although it is still essential to maintain conscious objectiveness throughout the research process, there are many strategies discussed by LoBiondo-Wood and Haber (2013), and I encountered more while developing the essay. Certainly, learning such system or methodology will encourage researchers to follow the guideline, and I realized it would be my objective in future