Whatever happened to qualitative description?
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Whatever happened to qualitative description?
The general view of descriptive research as a lower level form of inquiry has influenced some researchers conducting qualitative research to claim methods they are really not using and not to claim the method they are using: namely, qualitative description. Qualitative descriptive studies have as their goal a comprehensive summary of events in the everyday terms of those events. Researchers con...
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عنوان ژورنال: Research in Nursing & Health
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0160-6891,1098-240X
DOI: 10.1002/1098-240x(200008)23:4<334::aid-nur9>3.0.co;2-g