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dc.contributor.authorEastwood, John
dc.contributor.authorKemp, Lynn A.
dc.contributor.authorJalaludin, Bin B.
dc.date.accessioned2017-07-06T04:48:19Z
dc.date.available2017-07-06T04:48:19Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier.issn2193-1801
dc.identifier.doi10.1186/s40064-016-2729-9
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/100359
dc.description.abstractBackground: We have recently described a protocol for a study that aims to build a theory of neighbourhood context and postnatal depression. That protocol proposed a critical realist Explanatory Theory Building Method comprising of an: (1) emergent phase, (2) construction phase, and (3) confirmatory phase. A concurrent triangulated mixed method multilevel cross-sectional study design was described. The protocol also described in detail the Theory Construction Phase which will be presented here. Methods: The Theory Construction Phase will include: (1) defining stratified levels; (2) analytic resolution; (3) abductive reasoning; (4) comparative analysis (triangulation); (5) retroduction; (6) postulate and proposition development; (7) comparison and assessment of theories; and (8) conceptual frameworks and model development. Theory construction: The stratified levels of analysis in this study were predominantly social and psychological. The abductive analysis used the theoretical frames of: Stress Process; Social Isolation; Social Exclusion; Social Services; Social Capital, Acculturation Theory and Global-economic level mechanisms. Realist propositions are presented for each analysis of triangulated data. Inference to best explanation is used to assess and compare theories. A conceptual framework of maternal depression, stress and context is presented that includes examples of mechanisms at psychological, social, cultural and global-economic levels. Stress was identified as a necessary mechanism that has the tendency to cause several outcomes including depression, anxiety, and health harming behaviours. The conceptual framework subsequently included conditional mechanisms identified through the retroduction including the stressors of isolation and expectations and buffers of social support and trust. Conclusion: The meta-theory of critical realism is used here to generate and construct social epidemiological theory using stratified ontology and both abductive and retroductive analysis. The findings will be applied to the development of a middle range theory and subsequent programme theory for local perinatal child and family interventions.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSpringerOpen
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dc.relation.ispartofpageto26
dc.relation.ispartofissue1081
dc.relation.ispartofjournalSpringerPlus
dc.relation.ispartofvolume5
dc.subject.fieldofresearchSociology not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode441099
dc.titleRealist theory construction for a mixed method multilevel study of neighbourhood context and postnatal depression
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
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gro.facultyGriffith Health, School of Public Health
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