July 15, 2020 | Digital research, Patient insight, ethnography, patient experience
Digital ethnography has been deployed with PoTS patients for the first time, by Origins Insights, with significant results for the PoTS UK charity.
During these extremely difficult times, many market research projects have been delayed, postponed or cancelled altogether. However, one unique project investigating the impact of living with Postural Tachycardia Syndrome (PoTS) has carried on regardless and recently came to a conclusion. PoTS is a chronic health condition that predominantly affects young women. It is a multi-system disorder that causes a wide range of symptoms which vary across patients and can be triggered by a multitude of factors. As such, PoTS can be difficult to manage and affects many different areas of a person’s life, such as their cognition, mobility and general well-being.
This study, which utilised digital ethnographic techniques to gain deep patient insights, is one of the only studies of its kind in PoTS. It is a collaboration initiated by Origins Insights, delivering the project for charity PoTS UK, and supported by trainee clinical psychologist Sam Waterman, from Royal Holloway, University of London.
The study used a longitudinal qualitative approach to look at two specific areas:
Focused digital ethnography with an unstructured approach to interviewing was used to collect data, through remote filming by participants over a few weeks, even continuing during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Data were immediately accessible to analysts, due to use of a centralised research platform, who utilised Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) to deliver detailed examinations of personal lived experience.
So what were the findings? Four key themes emerged.
Many of these are common challenges across rare diseases, but the power of the methodology came with the audio-visual data provided by participants. This data illustrates the patients’ emotive insights and, moving forward, will be utilised by PoTS UK to inform educational, communications and digital support services across stakeholders for many years to come.
Get in touch with Origins Insights to see and hear more about these immersive, emotive, transformative outcomes.
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