Temporary Data Collection Assistant

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Posted Job Title

Temporary Data Collection Assistant

Job Profile Title

Temporary Employee - Non-Exempt

Job Description Summary

Candidate will participate in research team talks, engage with on-site clinic team, co-produce qualitative coding schemes, analyze patient narrative elicitations, interview data and prepare reports and presentations s of coded data

Job Description

Candidate will participate in research team discussions related to the IRB approved project entitled, "Exploring the Relationship between Patients' Emotional Experiences during Hospitalization and their Satisfaction." They will engage with on-site clinic team at in-person and virtual meetings, co-produce qualitative data coding schemes for narrative and interview data using inductive and deductive coding methods. They will analyze patient narrative elicitations (N=300) and interview data (N=30) using MaxQDA software, prepare reports and presentations of coded data for updating of research site team and academic conferences (anticipating bi-monthly), and contribute to development of related publications through extraction of relevant coded text and responses to analytic requests.

Job Location - City, State

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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