Criteria for Good Qualitative Research: A Comprehensive Review
Fundamental Criteria: General Research Quality. Various researchers have put forward criteria for evaluating qualitative research, which have been summarized in Table 3.Also, the criteria outlined in Table 4 effectively deliver the various approaches to evaluate and assess the quality of qualitative work. The entries in Table 4 are based on Tracy's "Eight big‐tent criteria for excellent ...
How to … assess the quality of qualitative research
Depending on the research question, observations (as well as other methods) might be an alternative or complement to interviews, or individual interviews may be more appropriate than group interviews or focus groups. 4 One key marker for assessing the quality of qualitative research is the selection criteria used to recruit study participants.
A Review of the Quality Indicators of Rigor in Qualitative Research
Researcher reflexivity, essentially a researcher's insight into their own biases and rationale for decision-making as the study progresses, is critical to rigor. This article reviews common standards of rigor, quality scholarship criteria, and best practices for qualitative research from design through dissemination.
Qualitative Quality: Eight "Big-Tent" Criteria for Excellent
This article presents a model for quality in qualitative research that is uniquely expansive, yet flexible, in that it makes distinctions among qualitative research's means (methods and practices) and its ends. The article first provides a contextualization and rationale for the conceptualization.
How to use and assess qualitative research methods
Providing and adhering to a checklist for qualitative research contributes to an important quality criterion for qualitative research, namely transparency [15, 17, 23]. Reflexivity While methodological transparency and complete reporting is relevant for all types of research, some additional criteria must be taken into account for qualitative ...
PDF An Analysis of Quality Criteria for Qualitative Research
Quality criteria in qualitative research: three stances Bryman, Becker and Sempik (2008) in a study on the use of quality criteria across quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods research in social policy research in the UK, noted that there is an absence of consensual agreement between qualitative researchers as to ...
Good listening: A key element in establishing quality in qualitative
Nonetheless, it is challenging to develop criteria to assess quality in qualitative research (Roulston, 2010), due to the necessity to incorporate rigor and subjectivity, as well as creativity, into the scientific process (Whittemore et al., 2001). Numerous suggestions have been made over the last few decades as those working within the ...
PDF Managing Quality in Qualitative Research
Quality of qualitative research as a result of a decision process 137 Transparency, documentation and writing 137 ... and applying criteria, by using strategies of managing or increasing diversity in the research process, and ... instead of outside control' (Kamiske and Brauer, 1995, p. 111). Quality in the qualitative research process
Assessing quality in qualitative research
In qualitative research, concern about assessing quality has manifested itself recently in the proliferation of guidelines for doing and judging qualitative work. 2 -5 Users and funders of research have had an important role in developing these guidelines as they become increasingly familiar with qualitative methods, but require some means of ...
The Quality of Qualitative Research
In thinking about the quality of qualitative research, the overall concern is with good inquiry practice that is shaped by taking the right research path, making good decisions about aspects of data collection and analysis, making logical inferences and interpretations, and gaining meaningful insight and knowledge. In addressing these concerns, apart from the detailed practicalities of dealing ...
(PDF) Ensuring Quality in Qualitative Research
We then detail three additional facets of quality for qualitative research: per-. sonal reflexivity and end-user involvement; the transferability of findings; and triangulation of data sour ces ...
11 Considerations of Quality in Qualitative Research
This chapter describes how excellence and quality can be demonstrated in qualitative research and provides criteria for discerning these qualities as a consumer of qualitative reports. Researchers are advised to make carefully considered choices about the terms they adopt, such as "validation," "verification," "credibility," and ...
Simple but Effective Criteria: Rethinking Excellent Qualitative Research
suggests eight key criteria of quality in qualitative research including (a) worthy topic, (b) rich. rigor, (c) sincerity, (d) credibility, (e) resonance, (f) significant contribution, (g) ethics ...
PDF AM Last Page: Quality Criteria in Qualitative and Quantitative Research
However, while qualitative and quantitative research share similar standards for good evidence (quality criteria), the conception and operationalization of these quality criteria differ between the two. Below, we provide an overview of these criteria and a number of techniques that researchers can use to meet them. In
Quality in Qualitative Research
A variety of conceptions of qualitative research exist, with competing claims as to what counts as good quality work. Rather than opting for the criteria promoted by one variety, "paradigm," "moment," or school within qualitative research, practicing researchers can learn valuable lessons from each one. This is because social research ...
Evaluative Criteria for Qualitative Research in Health Care
The search for a single set of criteria for good qualitative research is grounded in the assumption that qualitative research is a unified field. 124, 135, 137, 145 Qualitative research is grounded in a range of theoretical frameworks and uses a variety of methodological approaches to guide data collection and analysis. Because most manuscript ...
(PDF) Quality-Control in Qualitative Research
the research and by evaluating interpretations according to their impact on readers, investigators, and. participants, qualitative research shifts the goal of quality control from the objective ...
Quality assurance of qualitative research: a review of the discourse
Background Increasing demand for qualitative research within global health has emerged alongside increasing demand for demonstration of quality of research, in line with the evidence-based model of medicine. In quantitative health sciences research, in particular clinical trials, there exist clear and widely-recognised guidelines for conducting quality assurance of research. However, no ...
Assessing the 'Quality' of Qualitative Research
Awareness of the criteria used when assessing the quality of qualitative research is key for anyone conducting qualitative research. As we have seen these criteria typically include: trustworthiness, credibility, transferability, dependability, confirmability, reflexivity and ethics. However the strategies which each researcher adopts in order ...
Criteria for Assessing and Ensuring the Trustworthiness in Qualitative
truth value (Sandelowski, 1986). The term internal validity is used in qualitative research to control compound variables by the researcher to control or randomise. Qualitative research is subject-oriented and can be obtained from human experiences. In 1985, Guba and Lincoln coined the word credibility for this concept. 2.1.2 Credibility
Rapid reviews methods series: guidance on rapid qualitative evidence
Setting the review question and topic refinement. Rapid reviews summarise information from multiple research studies to produce evidence for 'the public, researchers, policymakers and funders in a systematic, resource-efficient manner'.16 Involvement of knowledge users is critical.3 Given time constraints, individual knowledge users could be asked only to feedback on very specific ...
Qualitative Research Part II: Participants, Analysis, and Quality
This is the second of a two-part series on qualitative research. Part 1 in the December 2011 issue of Journal of Graduate Medical Education provided an introduction to the topic and compared characteristics of quantitative and qualitative research, identified common data collection approaches, and briefly described data analysis and quality assessment techniques.
Integrating qualitative research within a clinical trials unit
The value of using qualitative methods within randomised control trials (RCTs) is widely recognised [1,2,3].Qualitative research generates important evidence on factors affecting trial recruitment/retention [] and implementation, aiding interpretation of quantitative data [].Though RCTs have traditionally been viewed as sitting within a positivist paradigm, recent methodological innovations ...
(PDF) Quality in qualitative research
data generat ed from talk, observa tion or document atio n. • A report of qualitative research should address the following. criteria: ¾ Clarification and justification; ¾ Procedural rigour ...
Older people's perception of being frail
The qualitative PE for the HERO trial employed a qualitative mixed methods approach [] including a variety of data collection methods such as non-participant observations, semi-structured interviews, and documentary analysis.The data for this paper was obtained from the interviews with participants as the focus is on individual's own perception of their frailty.
Quality control in qualitative research
It focuses on criteria by which the quality and rigor of reported qualitative investigations may be evaluated. The topics and methods of qualitative research are at least as varied as those of tradi- tional nonqualitative research. ... Quality Control in Qualitative Research 603 From a constructivist perspective, disclosure of orientation is ...
Transferability and Generalization in Qualitative Research
Transferability Defined. Transferability is a process of abstraction used to apply information drawn from specific persons, settings, and eras to others that have not been directly studied. It is often linked with generalization, a similar process that is much more widely discussed in the social science literature.
Behavioral Sciences
Psychotherapy for individuals with psychosis is an effective treatment that promotes recovery in various ways. While there is strong quantitative evidence across modalities, less is known from the patient's perspective. There are many varied forms of psychotherapy, and gaining the patient's perspective can improve understanding of salient elements of psychotherapy and increase engagement ...
Quality assurance of qualitative research: a review of the discourse
In response to the perceived need for the authors' qualitative studies to maintain and demonstrate quality in research processes and outcomes, we sought to identify existing guidance for quality assurance of qualitative research. In the absence of an established unified approach encapsulated in guidance format, we saw the need to review ...
Physicians' understanding of antibiotic intravenous-to-oral switching—a
Antibiotic IVOS criteria reported by papers most consist of five-section: (1) timing of IV ... nursing, quality control, information, and other departments to develop IVOS treatment plans or clinical pathways, ensure a timely switch therapy. ... The research results fill the gap in qualitative research on IVOS in China and have profound ...
COMMENTS
Fundamental Criteria: General Research Quality. Various researchers have put forward criteria for evaluating qualitative research, which have been summarized in Table 3.Also, the criteria outlined in Table 4 effectively deliver the various approaches to evaluate and assess the quality of qualitative work. The entries in Table 4 are based on Tracy's "Eight big‐tent criteria for excellent ...
Depending on the research question, observations (as well as other methods) might be an alternative or complement to interviews, or individual interviews may be more appropriate than group interviews or focus groups. 4 One key marker for assessing the quality of qualitative research is the selection criteria used to recruit study participants.
Researcher reflexivity, essentially a researcher's insight into their own biases and rationale for decision-making as the study progresses, is critical to rigor. This article reviews common standards of rigor, quality scholarship criteria, and best practices for qualitative research from design through dissemination.
This article presents a model for quality in qualitative research that is uniquely expansive, yet flexible, in that it makes distinctions among qualitative research's means (methods and practices) and its ends. The article first provides a contextualization and rationale for the conceptualization.
Providing and adhering to a checklist for qualitative research contributes to an important quality criterion for qualitative research, namely transparency [15, 17, 23]. Reflexivity While methodological transparency and complete reporting is relevant for all types of research, some additional criteria must be taken into account for qualitative ...
Quality criteria in qualitative research: three stances Bryman, Becker and Sempik (2008) in a study on the use of quality criteria across quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods research in social policy research in the UK, noted that there is an absence of consensual agreement between qualitative researchers as to ...
Nonetheless, it is challenging to develop criteria to assess quality in qualitative research (Roulston, 2010), due to the necessity to incorporate rigor and subjectivity, as well as creativity, into the scientific process (Whittemore et al., 2001). Numerous suggestions have been made over the last few decades as those working within the ...
Quality of qualitative research as a result of a decision process 137 Transparency, documentation and writing 137 ... and applying criteria, by using strategies of managing or increasing diversity in the research process, and ... instead of outside control' (Kamiske and Brauer, 1995, p. 111). Quality in the qualitative research process
In qualitative research, concern about assessing quality has manifested itself recently in the proliferation of guidelines for doing and judging qualitative work. 2 -5 Users and funders of research have had an important role in developing these guidelines as they become increasingly familiar with qualitative methods, but require some means of ...
In thinking about the quality of qualitative research, the overall concern is with good inquiry practice that is shaped by taking the right research path, making good decisions about aspects of data collection and analysis, making logical inferences and interpretations, and gaining meaningful insight and knowledge. In addressing these concerns, apart from the detailed practicalities of dealing ...
We then detail three additional facets of quality for qualitative research: per-. sonal reflexivity and end-user involvement; the transferability of findings; and triangulation of data sour ces ...
This chapter describes how excellence and quality can be demonstrated in qualitative research and provides criteria for discerning these qualities as a consumer of qualitative reports. Researchers are advised to make carefully considered choices about the terms they adopt, such as "validation," "verification," "credibility," and ...
suggests eight key criteria of quality in qualitative research including (a) worthy topic, (b) rich. rigor, (c) sincerity, (d) credibility, (e) resonance, (f) significant contribution, (g) ethics ...
However, while qualitative and quantitative research share similar standards for good evidence (quality criteria), the conception and operationalization of these quality criteria differ between the two. Below, we provide an overview of these criteria and a number of techniques that researchers can use to meet them. In
A variety of conceptions of qualitative research exist, with competing claims as to what counts as good quality work. Rather than opting for the criteria promoted by one variety, "paradigm," "moment," or school within qualitative research, practicing researchers can learn valuable lessons from each one. This is because social research ...
The search for a single set of criteria for good qualitative research is grounded in the assumption that qualitative research is a unified field. 124, 135, 137, 145 Qualitative research is grounded in a range of theoretical frameworks and uses a variety of methodological approaches to guide data collection and analysis. Because most manuscript ...
the research and by evaluating interpretations according to their impact on readers, investigators, and. participants, qualitative research shifts the goal of quality control from the objective ...
Background Increasing demand for qualitative research within global health has emerged alongside increasing demand for demonstration of quality of research, in line with the evidence-based model of medicine. In quantitative health sciences research, in particular clinical trials, there exist clear and widely-recognised guidelines for conducting quality assurance of research. However, no ...
Awareness of the criteria used when assessing the quality of qualitative research is key for anyone conducting qualitative research. As we have seen these criteria typically include: trustworthiness, credibility, transferability, dependability, confirmability, reflexivity and ethics. However the strategies which each researcher adopts in order ...
truth value (Sandelowski, 1986). The term internal validity is used in qualitative research to control compound variables by the researcher to control or randomise. Qualitative research is subject-oriented and can be obtained from human experiences. In 1985, Guba and Lincoln coined the word credibility for this concept. 2.1.2 Credibility
Setting the review question and topic refinement. Rapid reviews summarise information from multiple research studies to produce evidence for 'the public, researchers, policymakers and funders in a systematic, resource-efficient manner'.16 Involvement of knowledge users is critical.3 Given time constraints, individual knowledge users could be asked only to feedback on very specific ...
This is the second of a two-part series on qualitative research. Part 1 in the December 2011 issue of Journal of Graduate Medical Education provided an introduction to the topic and compared characteristics of quantitative and qualitative research, identified common data collection approaches, and briefly described data analysis and quality assessment techniques.
The value of using qualitative methods within randomised control trials (RCTs) is widely recognised [1,2,3].Qualitative research generates important evidence on factors affecting trial recruitment/retention [] and implementation, aiding interpretation of quantitative data [].Though RCTs have traditionally been viewed as sitting within a positivist paradigm, recent methodological innovations ...
data generat ed from talk, observa tion or document atio n. • A report of qualitative research should address the following. criteria: ¾ Clarification and justification; ¾ Procedural rigour ...
The qualitative PE for the HERO trial employed a qualitative mixed methods approach [] including a variety of data collection methods such as non-participant observations, semi-structured interviews, and documentary analysis.The data for this paper was obtained from the interviews with participants as the focus is on individual's own perception of their frailty.
It focuses on criteria by which the quality and rigor of reported qualitative investigations may be evaluated. The topics and methods of qualitative research are at least as varied as those of tradi- tional nonqualitative research. ... Quality Control in Qualitative Research 603 From a constructivist perspective, disclosure of orientation is ...
Transferability Defined. Transferability is a process of abstraction used to apply information drawn from specific persons, settings, and eras to others that have not been directly studied. It is often linked with generalization, a similar process that is much more widely discussed in the social science literature.
Psychotherapy for individuals with psychosis is an effective treatment that promotes recovery in various ways. While there is strong quantitative evidence across modalities, less is known from the patient's perspective. There are many varied forms of psychotherapy, and gaining the patient's perspective can improve understanding of salient elements of psychotherapy and increase engagement ...
In response to the perceived need for the authors' qualitative studies to maintain and demonstrate quality in research processes and outcomes, we sought to identify existing guidance for quality assurance of qualitative research. In the absence of an established unified approach encapsulated in guidance format, we saw the need to review ...
Antibiotic IVOS criteria reported by papers most consist of five-section: (1) timing of IV ... nursing, quality control, information, and other departments to develop IVOS treatment plans or clinical pathways, ensure a timely switch therapy. ... The research results fill the gap in qualitative research on IVOS in China and have profound ...