Beyond exploratory: a tailored framework for designing and assessing qualitative health research.

ABSTRACT: The objective of this commentary is to develop a framework for assessing the rigour of qualitative approaches that identifies and distinguishes between the diverse objectives of qualitative health research, guided by a narrative review of the published literature on qualitative guidelines and standards from peer-reviewed journals and national funding organisations that support health services research, patient-centered outcomes research and other applied health research fields. In this framework, we identify and distinguish three objectives of qualitative studies in applied health research: exploratory, descriptive and comparative. For each objective, we propose methodological standards that may be used to assess and improve rigour across all study phases-from design to reporting. Similar

SUBMITTER: Rendle KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6720470 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature