The use of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) in child well-being research: a scoping review of research on child well-being research and interventions.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) is a method for examining configurational causality by identifying pathways that lead to an outcome of interest. There is a growing body of literature that uses QCA to measure child well-being due to its ability to generate evidence of causality for complex social phenomena. This scoping review examines how QCA studies are being employed to investigate child well-being and assesses the potential of QCA as a method to produce intervention-focused evidence and to contribute to future methodological development to address the complexity of child well-being.

Method

We systematically searched Embase, PsyINFO, MEDLINE, Social Policy and Practice, Global Health, Econlit, Scopus and Web of Science for peer-reviewed studies that had u

SUBMITTER: Kyaw AT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12462042 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature