Spirituality in African Americans with diabetes: self-management through a relationship with god

This article is a good example of a well-written grounded theory analysis leading to the development of an inductive theoretical model.

Polzer, R. and Miles, M. (2007) ‘Spirituality in African Americans with diabetes: Self-management through a relationship with God’, Qualitative Health Research, 17 (2): 176–88.

Thinking through cancer risk: characterizing smokers’ process of risk determination

This article uses grounded theory to develop a heuristic model.

Hay, J., Shuk, E., Cruz, G. and Ostroff, J. (2005) ‘Thinking through cancer risk: Characterizing smokers’ process of risk determination’, Qualitative Health Research, 15 (8): 1074–85.