Response to Colleagues Writings on Qualitative Research Design

TO COLLEAGUES ' WRITINGS

ON QUALITATIVE RESEARCH DESIGN

Response to writing 1 - T .F

The title of the article seems to be appropriate for the topic that is discussed in the text of the article . The investigators of the study focused on the personal experiences of eight individuals right before they reached the point of burnout . Although the title may seem misleading to your standards of interest , these word identifiers appear to be fully descriptive of the content of the research article

It is highly noticeable that the research article did not

cite any references , yet the authors clearly indicated in the introduction section of the paper (Ekstedt and Fagerberg , 2005 , page 60 ) that there is a need to scientifically provide information on the experiences of individuals right before they reach the stage of burnout . The authors also acknowledged that most of the reports on burnout focused on the actual stage itself and not so much about the phase prior to this condition (Trindade Lde et al , 2009 . It should also be understood that the aim of the investigators was to psychologically assess the study participants prior to burnout and thus examining the culture associated with burnout would be more of a sociological approach

Response to writing 2 - K .J

The investigators of the research report were creative enough in enticing eight study participants to engage in the interviews . It is common for analysts to associate the nursing and medical fields with burnout because this profession is highly challenging and more...