Relevance Of Qualitative Research Research Articles

What Is Qualitative Research? An Overview and Guidelines

This guide explains the focus, rigor, and relevance of qualitative research, highlighting its role in dissecting complex social phenomena and providing in-depth, human-centered insights. The guide also examines the rationale for employing qualitative methods, underscoring their critical importance. An exploration of the methodology’s strengths, such as its ability to offer contextual depth and holistic perspectives, is juxtaposed against challenges like constrained generalizability and potential researcher bias, accompanied by practical mitigation strategies. Covering a spectrum of qualitative approaches, including grounded theory, phenomenology, ethnography, action research, and general inquiry, the guide sheds light on diverse data collection and analysis techniques. Noteworthily, the guide underscores the crucial aspect of trustworthiness in qualitative research, detailing methods to establish credibility, dependability, confirmability, and transferability. The integration of technologies like recording and transcribing tools with data analysis software and the growing influence of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning are also explored. Concluding with a discussion on ethical considerations, from participant recruitment to data stewardship, this guide serves as an essential resource that offers insightful, actionable guidance for conducting effective and impactful qualitative research.

Qualitative Research and Narrative Sources in the Context of Critical and Renal Cares

The objective of this study is to clarify the relevance of qualitative research in the context of critical care and renal dialysis requires using narrative sources. Also specific objectives are to identify the phases or cultural moments that are distinguished in these processes. Research Question: How can the narrative materials contribute to the study of the processes of critical care and/or qualitative research in nephrology? Method and Sources: There have been studies focusing on the narrative of patients who have written their experiences building a literature experience ill (Siles et al., 1997, 1999, 2000). Sources have been used to extract testimony retrospective autobiographies written by people who have experienced the experiences of different diseases (Allue, 1996, 1997, Zorn, 1991, Gilbert, 1993; Comas, 2009; Gracia Armendariz, 2010; Sampedro, 1996, Sacks, 2010). The analysis was developed by categorizing units of meaning, meaning families and networks. To identify the cultural moments we have followed the criteria established by Siles and Solano (2009): Multiculturalism, interculturalism and transculturalism. To identify rites of passage and liminality states have followed the principles outlined by Van Gennep (2013) and Turner (1990, 2008). Results: We identified cultural moments and characteristic states of liminality in critical care and kidney. Conclusions: narrative sources are effective for analyzing the meanings and experiences of patients in critical care and nephrology tool.

The rise and relevance of qualitative research

The article discusses the development of social research in advanced economies and relates the rise of qualitative research to social changes. The paper suggests that partly, qualitative research emerged because some of the articles formerly classified as ‘non‐empirical’ or ‘theoretical’ gave way to an increasing share of articles classified as qualitative. In addition, the rise of qualitative inquiry meant that the everyday reality which produces statistical relationships between the variables of quantitative analysis is given more attention. Since the rise of qualitative research has primarily taken place at the expense of non‐empirical or theoretical rather than quantitative articles, one can argue that it has contributed to an overall systematization of social research. Overall, qualitative inquiry simply carries on one aspect of social science, the mission to study ‘the social body,’ the practices that make up social institutions and produce the regularities reflected in statistical relations.

The relevance of qualitative research

Pertti Alasuutari, PhD, is professor of sociology and Director of the International School of Social Sciences at the University of Tampere, Finland. He is editor of the European Journal of Cultural Studies, and has published widely in the areas of cultural and media studies and qualitative methods. His books include Researching Culture: Qualitative Method and Cultural Studies (Sage, 1995), An Invitation to Social Research (Sage 1998) Rethinking the Media Audience (Sage 1999), and Social Theory and Hu man Reality (Sage 2004).

The contributions of qualitative research towards dental public health practice

Dental public health (DPH) researchers have traditionally relied on quantitative methods for scientific enquiry. This paper argues that qualitative methodology can make a significant contribution to DPH knowledge and practice because it allows researchers to answer important questions of relevance to procedure and policy that are difficult to answer satisfactorily using quantitative methods alone. Qualitative research can also challenge the norms and assumptions of DPH practice. There are tensions in the relationship between qualitative research and the prevailing paradigm of evidence-based practice (EBP) which potentially influence the utility of DPH-related qualitative research. However, the relevance of qualitative research is increasing as the scope of EBP enquiry extends beyond questions of effectiveness, and methods are developed for incorporating qualitative research into systematic reviews.

Assessing the Impact of Psoriasis and the Relevance of Qualitative Research

Living with psoriasis is a lifetime experience. The lack of a cure combines with a peculiar public response of disinterest if not prejudice and stigmatization. Various factors account for changes in quality of life measures that seem independent from disease severity and effectiveness of treatment. Merging a qualitative and individual case analysis with assessment of quality of life would represent a direction for future studies.

The Relevance of Qualitative Research

This paper addresses the relevance of qualitative inquiry to policymaking and practice; against the background of recent attacks on educational research generally, and on qualitative work in particular. It outlines the contribution of the latter, referring to some examples of this kind of work over the past couple of decades. The discussion is organised around the five capacities ascribed to symbolic interactionist/phenomenological research by David Hargreaves in an article published in 1978: 'appreciative', 'designatory', 'reflective', 'immunological', and 'corrective'. It is argued that today there is more need than ever for research serving these functions.

A field guide to qualitative inquiry and its clinical relevance

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.

Qualitative Research: Part Two Methodological Approaches and Relevance to Occupational Therapy

This article, the second of two in a series, examines the data collection methods, analysis, and characteristic findings of qualitative research. The logic and yield of qualitative research processes are thus examined. The article also posits the special relevance of qualitative research to occupational therapy.