Abstract
This paper provides an overview of qualitative research and is written to assist the reader to both understand and use qualitative methods. The relevance of qualitative research to clinical practice is highlighted. A brief historical perspective of qualitative research is given, along with many of the underlying epistemological issues of qualitative methods. A working definition of qualitative inquiry is offered and various descriptions of several major features of qualitative inquiry are provided. The relevance and application of qualitative research is presented through the description of four methods of inquiry, and a number of completed studies are described briefly.
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