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  1. Qualitative Descriptive Methods in Health Science Research

    This paper presents steps to conducting a qualitative descriptive study under the following headings: describing the qualitative descriptive approach, designing a qualitative descriptive study, steps to data analysis, and ensuring rigor of findings.

  2. Qualitative Description as an Introductory Method to ...

    Qualitative description (QD) offers an accessible entry point for master’s-level students and research trainees embarking on a qualitative research learning journey, emphasizing direct, rich descriptions of experiences and events without extensive theorization or abstraction.

  3. Descriptive Research: Design, Methods, Examples, and FAQs

    As the name suggests, descriptive research describes the characteristics of the group, situation, or phenomenon being studied without manipulating variables or testing hypotheses. This can be reported using surveys, observational studies, and case studies.

  4. Employing a Qualitative Description Approach in Health Care ...

    The key attributes and value of qualitative description research in the health care professions have been delineated with the aim of acting as a resource for researchers and extending the use of qualitative description in research.

  5. Planning Qualitative Research: Design and Decision Making for ...

    Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to provide a concise explanation of four common qualitative approaches, case study, ethnography, narrative, and phenomenology, demonstrating how each approach is linked to specific types of data collection and analysis.

  6. Study designs: Part 2 – Descriptive studies - PMC

    Descriptive studies can be of several types, namely, case reports, case series, cross-sectional studies, and ecological studies. In the first three of these, data are collected on individuals, whereas the last one uses aggregated data for groups. Case reports and case series.

  7. What is Descriptive Research? | Uses, Examples & Methods

    Introduction. Conducting descriptive research offers researchers a way to present phenomena as they naturally occur. Rooted in an open-ended and non-experimental nature, this type of research focuses on portraying the details of specific phenomena or contexts, helping readers gain a clearer understanding of topics of interest.

  8. What Is Qualitative Research? | Methods & Examples - Scribbr

    Qualitative research question examples. How does social media shape body image in teenagers? How do children and adults interpret healthy eating in the UK? What factors influence employee retention in a large organization? How is anxiety experienced around the world? How can teachers integrate social issues into science curriculums? Note.

  9. Descriptive analysis in education: A guide for researchers

    Whether the goal is to identify and describe trends and variation in populations, create new measures of key phenomena, or describe samples in studies aimed at identifying causal effects, description plays a critical role in the scientific pro- cess in general and education research in particular.

  10. Qualitative Descriptive Methods in Health Science Research

    Results: This paper presents steps to conducting a qualitative descriptive study under the following headings: describing the qualitative descriptive approach, designing a qualitative...