質性研究資料的量化及詮釋--從研究例證探討臨床護理研究方法與認識學第二部分：研究例證之分析與詮釋

This paper is the second part of the study with the title shown above. The first part of the study has been published. The purpose of the study is to explore an approach to research methodology which can better reconcile nursing research to the nursing empirical world. The first part of the study included a review of the development of qualitative research and the use of inductive and deductive data analysis approaches in a clinical nursing situation. This paper further reports the method and the findings of the quantification of the qualitative research data collected by way of participatory observation on 20 new mothers while they were feeding their newborn babies, over the first three postpartum days. An attempt is also made to re-interpret the findings by recontextualizing them back to the empirical nursing world. A discussion of empirical validation, proper paradigm in nursing science and nursing practice implications from the perspective of symbolic interactionism is also presented.