ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights speedy methods and those entailing "low respondent burden". The five-minute-interview method allows interviewers to collect data quickly when time is short and immediate utility is prioritized. The method is powerful but it is not the only way to get data when patients are in care. The chapter develops a "noncategorical" model of parental coping, a model generalizable to all categories of children with special health care needs, and one that can be understood and applied by health service workers. It provides key variables: initial classification, care coordination, and stigma management. The chapter demonstrates value of analyzing findings from any given circumscribed project in light of larger understanding of context, as when a project is part of a larger ongoing program of research or when it is ethnographically embedded. It examines implicit need for on-site observations, and provides a concrete and personal example of how immersive, participant observational experience informs and can catalyze analysis.
