What is Qualitative in Qualitative Research

What is qualitative research ?

Trisha Greenhalgh, senior lecturera ([email protected])⇑, Rod Taylor, senior lecturerb Unit for Evidence-Based Practice and Policy, Department of Primary Care and Population Sciences, University College London Medical School/Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, Whittington Hospital, London N19 5NF Exeter and Devon Research and Development Support Unit, Postgraduate Medical School, Wonfo...

Uses of qualitative research, or so what good is it?

What is a qualitative synthesis?

If you want to inform your practice with answers to questions such as ‘What is it like for people to suffer chronic pain?’ or ‘What are patients’ understanding and experience of hypertension and taking medication’ or ‘What are older people’s views about falling and taking part in a falls programme’ then what might you do? You could read individual research papers, but often there are many paper...

Qualitative research is evidence, too.

With the current emphasis on accountability for outcomes and the need for objective evaluation of efficacy of interventions, physiotherapists are increasingly using evidence from research as a source of information to support clinical decision making. The concept of evidencebased practice has been adopted widely in physiotherapy with much work devoted to encouraging the transfer of research res...

Qualitative research methodology: phenomenology

There are two qualitative and quantitative research paradigms in the methodological debates. Phenomenological approach is one of the most important methods in the qualitative researches. ‎Depending on researcher’s view on study phenomenon, this approach is divided into two main ‎methods of descriptive and interpretive. Despite the many similarities between the two methods, ‎th...