Rebecca E. Karl Associate Professor, East Asian Studies and History New York University New York City David Finkel offers a sensitive vignette of one Iraq War veteran struggling to overcome the devastating impact of P.T.S.D. ("The Return," September 9th).
Each chapter has 3 components with a similar structure: interactive information (~2 minutes), culturally-sensitive vignettes (~17 minutes), and action plan (~40 seconds).
Culturally-sensitive vignettes are designed to engage the attention of the audience with poignant story lines, real world examples, and testimonials that model healthy lifestyle.
Payers often limit the amount of diabetes education and nutrition therapy allowed, and two of the type 1 diabetic patient vignettes are sensitive to assumptions about the amount of diabetes education and nutrition therapy reimbursed.
The community informant detection tool consists of vignettes, which are sensitive to the context, and pictures that are easy to understand for low literacy populations.
To reduce this bias, we used several strategies during data collection, for instance, vignettes to encourage discussion of sensitive issues.
Vignettes are useful when exploring sensitive issues [ 34] to assist participants reflect from a less threatening third person perspective and to introduce personal experiences when desired [ 35].
Vignettes are particularly useful when exploring sensitive topics, as they can help distance participants from the topic of discussion, 66 which has proven beneficial in other studies on self-harm carried out in Sri Lanka.
As the focus is on a third person, vignettes can be advantageous in research on sensitive topics where the participant may not feel comfortable discussing their personal situation and may conceal the truth about their own actions or beliefs.
Beaty's script, under Saundra McClain's sensitive direction, reveals Hayes' life as a series of music-propelled vignettes.
Unlike the film, which is seen from the perspective of Rocket, the sensitive one who becomes a photographer, the book is a sprawling compendium of vignettes involving dozens and dozens of characters.
