It is the mid-term and I am hard at work on reading more articles for my 709 paper and interviewing volunteers. My topic is health information seeking behaviors of parishioners in a small parish. As soon as I finish reading one piece, identifying the subtopics in each article and taking notes on the article, I find that the reference list yields more and more sources that would be interesting to read and use in the paper. I have at least 86 articles, many more of which require reading.
I identified seven volunteers. I need ten volunteers. I tested my questions yesterday and did the first interview. I was so moved by the comments of the volunteer that I had to stop a couple of times. The research instrument is an in depth interview of 42 questions. I seem to have a knack of generating these long research instruments and finding large numbers of articles.
This project is to become another facet of my life’s work. I am absolutely more and more fascinated by the information on this concept of health information seeking behavior. The fact that little, if any, has been written/studied about the sub-demographic of church-goers in interesting to me.
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