ABSTRACT
Joint displays increasingly have been recognized as a key advanced strategy for merging qualitative and quantitative findings for an integrated presentation of mixed methods research findings. The purpose of this chapter is to illustrate the utility of the creation of a joint display as an essential mixed methods research analytical procedure. Based on the grant, “Adaptive Designs Accelerating Promising Trials into Treatment,” a U grant funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Common Fund, a mixed methods research team conducted an evaluation of the process of developing controversial adaptive clinical trials. As part of the mixed methods analytics, the team developed a joint display. The joint display development involved six iterations until the final joint display format for publication was developed. Each iteration required restructuring of the data, the presentation format, and eventually involved the addition of color. For the purposes of this chapter, we developed a grayscale version. This case study illustrates the benefit and need for mixed methods researchers to not only construct, but also iteratively adjust and refine joint displays as a data analysis process that leads to a finished joint display for presentation in a publication. We conclude that an effective joint display may have a deceivingly simple final appearance when complete, but that the development process, an analytic process, is highly dynamic and useful for researchers using joint display development as a mixed methods analytical technique.
