Characteristics of Qualitative Descriptive Studies: A Systematic Review
Qualitative description (QD) is a label used in qualitative research for studies which are descriptive in nature, particularly for examining health care and nursing-related phenomena (Polit & Beck, 2009, 2014).QD is a widely cited research tradition and has been identified as important and appropriate for research questions focused on discovering the who, what, and where of events or ...
Qualitative and descriptive research: Data type versus data analysis
Qualitative research collects data qualitatively, and the method of analysis is also primarily qualitative. This often involves an inductive exploration of the data to identify recurring themes, patterns, or concepts and then describing and interpreting those categories. Of course, in qualitative research, the data collected qualitatively can ...
An overview of the qualitative descriptive design within nursing research
Qualitative descriptive designs are common in nursing and healthcare research due to their inherent simplicity, flexibility and utility in diverse healthcare contexts. However, the application of descriptive research is sometimes critiqued in terms of scientific rigor. Inconsistency in decision making within the research process coupled with a ...
Chapter 5: Qualitative descriptive research
However, most qualitative descriptive studies use semi-structured interviews (see Chapter 13) because they provide a reliable way to collect data. 3 The technique applied to data analysis is generally categorical and less conceptual when compared to other qualitative research designs (see Section 4). 2,3 Hence, this study design is well suited ...
Descriptive Research
Descriptive research methods. Descriptive research is usually defined as a type of quantitative research, though qualitative research can also be used for descriptive purposes. The research design should be carefully developed to ensure that the results are valid and reliable.. Surveys. Survey research allows you to gather large volumes of data that can be analyzed for frequencies, averages ...
Distinguishing Features and Similarities Between Descriptive
Such choices are predicated on having made distinctions between qualitative methodology, methods, and analytic frames. In this article, we distinguish two qualitative research approaches widely used for descriptive studies: descriptive phenomenological and qualitative description.
Qualitative Descriptive Methods in Health Science Research
Describing the Qualitative Descriptive Approach. In two seminal articles, Sandelowski promotes the mainstream use of qualitative description (Sandelowski, 2000, 2010) as a well-developed but unacknowledged method which provides a "comprehensive summary of an event in the every day terms of those events" (Sandelowski, 2000, p. 336).Such studies are characterized by lower levels of ...
Qualitative Description as an Introductory Method to Qualitative
• Provides rationale as to when and why a researcher can assume they've achieved "data saturation." (Note: Data saturation can be a controversial topic in qualitative research) Kim et al. (2017) Study design • Provides an outline of characteristics of qualitative descriptive studies, which can be useful when designing your study
Characteristics of qualitative descriptive studies: A systematic review
Qualitative description (QD) is a term that is widely used to describe qualitative studies of health care and nursing‐related phenomena. However, limited discussions regarding QD are found in the existing literature. In this systematic review, we identified characteristics of methods and findings reported in research articles published in 2014 whose authors identified the work as QD. After ...
PDF Essentials of Descriptive-Interpretive Qualitative Research: A Generic
Therefore, we talk about "generic" or "descriptive-interpretive" approaches to qualitative research that share in common an effort to describe, summarize, and classify what is present in the data, which always, as we explain in Chapter 4, involves a degree of interpretation. 3.
Descriptive and interpretive approaches to qualitative research
Descriptive-interpretive qualitative research methods go by many 'brand names' in which various common elements are mixed and matched according to particular researchers' predilections; currently popular variations include grounded theory (Henwood and Pigeon, 1992; Strauss and Corbin, 1998), empirical phenomenology (Giorgi, 1975; Wertz, 1983), hermeneutic-interpretive research (Packer ...
What Is Qualitative Research?
Qualitative research involves collecting and analyzing non-numerical data (e.g., text, video, or audio) to understand concepts, opinions, or experiences. It can be used to gather in-depth insights into a problem or generate new ideas for research. Qualitative research is the opposite of quantitative research, which involves collecting and ...
PDF Comparing the Five Approaches
Comparing the Five Approaches. All five approaches have in common the general process of research that begins with. a research problem and proceeds to the questions, the data, the data analysis and interpretations, and the research report. Qualitative researchers have found it helpful to see at this point an overall sketch for each of the five ...
Employing a Qualitative Description Approach in Health Care Research
However, qualitative research cannot be judged using the same criteria as the scientific paradigm. It is generally acknowledged that procedures to assess rigor within quantitative studies ... Qualitative descriptive research: An acceptable design. Pacific Rim International Journal of Nursing Research, 16, 255-256. [Google Scholar]
Qualitative Descriptive Design
The type of research questions best suited to descriptive design are about the practical consequences and useful applications about an issue or problem.: The purpose of descriptive design is to answer exploratory qualitative questions that do not fit into the framework of a more traditional design: Data sources can draw on any type of qualitative source including personal accounts (ie.
Employing a Qualitative Description Approach in Health Care Research
However, qualitative research cannot be judged using the same criteria as the scientific paradigm. It is generally acknowledged that procedures to assess rigor ... Qualitative descriptive research: An acceptable design. Pacific Rim International Journal of Nursing Research, 16, 255-256. Google Scholar. Law J. (2004). After method: Mess in ...
Qualitative Descriptive Research
A qualitative descriptive research study was undertaken at the completion of the semester to explore students' perceptions of the effect of the educational program on their knowledge, skills and attitudes to the elderly. The university's ethics committee granted ethical approval. Data were collected using an open-ended questionnaire ...
Qualitative and descriptive research: Data type versus data analysis
A descriptive qualitative research design was employed in this study with three data collection techniques, namely observation, questionnaire and interview. ... persuading them to be on the same ...
Descriptive Research Design
As discussed earlier, common data analysis methods for descriptive research include descriptive statistics, cross-tabulation, content analysis, qualitative coding, visualization, and comparative analysis. I nterpret results: Interpret your findings in light of your research question and objectives.
Patient medication management, understanding and adherence during the
Study design. This qualitative longitudinal study, conducted from October 2020 to July 2021, used a qualitative descriptive methodology through four consecutive in-depth semi-structured interviews per participant at three, 10-, 30- and 60-days post-discharge, as illustrated in Fig. 1.Longitudinal qualitative research is characterized by qualitative data collection at different points in time ...
Family caregivers of children transitioning hospital to home ...
Study design. We conducted a qualitative study using semi-structured interviews with FCs of children discharged home with an NGT. Data were collected between December 2021-August 2022.
An overview of the qualitative descriptive design within nursing research
It can be difficult to clearly differentiate what constitutes a descriptive research design from the range of other methodologies at the disposal of qualitative researchers. Aims This paper provides an overview of qualitative descriptive research, orientates to the underlying philosophical perspectives and key characteristics that define this ...
Qualitative Study
Qualitative research is a type of research that explores and provides deeper insights into real-world problems.[1] Instead of collecting numerical data points or intervene or introduce treatments just like in quantitative research, qualitative research helps generate hypotheses as well as further investigate and understand quantitative data. Qualitative research gathers participants ...
Overlooked by the obstetric gaze
In this descriptive qualitative study, a purposive sample of twelve women with self-reported persistent health problems after SPT were individually interviewed from November 2020 - February 2022. ... You end up in a position where you are neither on sick leave nor unemployment benefits and at the same time cannot perform any offered work [due ...
Original quantitative research
Abstract. Introduction: The objective of this analysis is to describe patient demographics, the context, characteristics and outcomes of a substance-related poisoning, and the recorded mental disorder of people with housing and those experiencing homelessness. Methods: Hospitalization data for Canada (except Quebec) from 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020 were retrieved from the Canadian Institute ...
Qualitative research collects data qualitatively, and the method of analysis is also primarily qualitative. This often involves an inductive exploration of the data to identify recurring themes, patterns, or concepts and then describing and interpreting those categories. Of course, in qualitative research, the data collected qualitatively can ...
Evaluating Local Government Policy Innovations
A qualitative descriptive method was used with a case study approach involving field observations and structured interviews. The research results show the success of Posyandu Prima in reducing stunting rates significantly in the last two years. The Surabaya City Government has proven effective in managing this program's human resources and budget.
Sociocultural practices and beliefs during pregnancy, childbirth, and
This study is descriptive qualitative research. We used qualitative methods to better understand the cultural practices during pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum to identify practices that negatively affect maternal and newborn health and to help recommend interventions to abolish such harmful practices [ 10 ].
COMMENTS
Qualitative description (QD) is a label used in qualitative research for studies which are descriptive in nature, particularly for examining health care and nursing-related phenomena (Polit & Beck, 2009, 2014).QD is a widely cited research tradition and has been identified as important and appropriate for research questions focused on discovering the who, what, and where of events or ...
Qualitative research collects data qualitatively, and the method of analysis is also primarily qualitative. This often involves an inductive exploration of the data to identify recurring themes, patterns, or concepts and then describing and interpreting those categories. Of course, in qualitative research, the data collected qualitatively can ...
Qualitative descriptive designs are common in nursing and healthcare research due to their inherent simplicity, flexibility and utility in diverse healthcare contexts. However, the application of descriptive research is sometimes critiqued in terms of scientific rigor. Inconsistency in decision making within the research process coupled with a ...
However, most qualitative descriptive studies use semi-structured interviews (see Chapter 13) because they provide a reliable way to collect data. 3 The technique applied to data analysis is generally categorical and less conceptual when compared to other qualitative research designs (see Section 4). 2,3 Hence, this study design is well suited ...
Descriptive research methods. Descriptive research is usually defined as a type of quantitative research, though qualitative research can also be used for descriptive purposes. The research design should be carefully developed to ensure that the results are valid and reliable.. Surveys. Survey research allows you to gather large volumes of data that can be analyzed for frequencies, averages ...
Such choices are predicated on having made distinctions between qualitative methodology, methods, and analytic frames. In this article, we distinguish two qualitative research approaches widely used for descriptive studies: descriptive phenomenological and qualitative description.
Describing the Qualitative Descriptive Approach. In two seminal articles, Sandelowski promotes the mainstream use of qualitative description (Sandelowski, 2000, 2010) as a well-developed but unacknowledged method which provides a "comprehensive summary of an event in the every day terms of those events" (Sandelowski, 2000, p. 336).Such studies are characterized by lower levels of ...
• Provides rationale as to when and why a researcher can assume they've achieved "data saturation." (Note: Data saturation can be a controversial topic in qualitative research) Kim et al. (2017) Study design • Provides an outline of characteristics of qualitative descriptive studies, which can be useful when designing your study
Qualitative description (QD) is a term that is widely used to describe qualitative studies of health care and nursing‐related phenomena. However, limited discussions regarding QD are found in the existing literature. In this systematic review, we identified characteristics of methods and findings reported in research articles published in 2014 whose authors identified the work as QD. After ...
Therefore, we talk about "generic" or "descriptive-interpretive" approaches to qualitative research that share in common an effort to describe, summarize, and classify what is present in the data, which always, as we explain in Chapter 4, involves a degree of interpretation. 3.
Descriptive-interpretive qualitative research methods go by many 'brand names' in which various common elements are mixed and matched according to particular researchers' predilections; currently popular variations include grounded theory (Henwood and Pigeon, 1992; Strauss and Corbin, 1998), empirical phenomenology (Giorgi, 1975; Wertz, 1983), hermeneutic-interpretive research (Packer ...
Qualitative research involves collecting and analyzing non-numerical data (e.g., text, video, or audio) to understand concepts, opinions, or experiences. It can be used to gather in-depth insights into a problem or generate new ideas for research. Qualitative research is the opposite of quantitative research, which involves collecting and ...
Comparing the Five Approaches. All five approaches have in common the general process of research that begins with. a research problem and proceeds to the questions, the data, the data analysis and interpretations, and the research report. Qualitative researchers have found it helpful to see at this point an overall sketch for each of the five ...
However, qualitative research cannot be judged using the same criteria as the scientific paradigm. It is generally acknowledged that procedures to assess rigor within quantitative studies ... Qualitative descriptive research: An acceptable design. Pacific Rim International Journal of Nursing Research, 16, 255-256. [Google Scholar]
The type of research questions best suited to descriptive design are about the practical consequences and useful applications about an issue or problem.: The purpose of descriptive design is to answer exploratory qualitative questions that do not fit into the framework of a more traditional design: Data sources can draw on any type of qualitative source including personal accounts (ie.
However, qualitative research cannot be judged using the same criteria as the scientific paradigm. It is generally acknowledged that procedures to assess rigor ... Qualitative descriptive research: An acceptable design. Pacific Rim International Journal of Nursing Research, 16, 255-256. Google Scholar. Law J. (2004). After method: Mess in ...
A qualitative descriptive research study was undertaken at the completion of the semester to explore students' perceptions of the effect of the educational program on their knowledge, skills and attitudes to the elderly. The university's ethics committee granted ethical approval. Data were collected using an open-ended questionnaire ...
A descriptive qualitative research design was employed in this study with three data collection techniques, namely observation, questionnaire and interview. ... persuading them to be on the same ...
As discussed earlier, common data analysis methods for descriptive research include descriptive statistics, cross-tabulation, content analysis, qualitative coding, visualization, and comparative analysis. I nterpret results: Interpret your findings in light of your research question and objectives.
Study design. This qualitative longitudinal study, conducted from October 2020 to July 2021, used a qualitative descriptive methodology through four consecutive in-depth semi-structured interviews per participant at three, 10-, 30- and 60-days post-discharge, as illustrated in Fig. 1.Longitudinal qualitative research is characterized by qualitative data collection at different points in time ...
Study design. We conducted a qualitative study using semi-structured interviews with FCs of children discharged home with an NGT. Data were collected between December 2021-August 2022.
It can be difficult to clearly differentiate what constitutes a descriptive research design from the range of other methodologies at the disposal of qualitative researchers. Aims This paper provides an overview of qualitative descriptive research, orientates to the underlying philosophical perspectives and key characteristics that define this ...
Qualitative research is a type of research that explores and provides deeper insights into real-world problems.[1] Instead of collecting numerical data points or intervene or introduce treatments just like in quantitative research, qualitative research helps generate hypotheses as well as further investigate and understand quantitative data. Qualitative research gathers participants ...
In this descriptive qualitative study, a purposive sample of twelve women with self-reported persistent health problems after SPT were individually interviewed from November 2020 - February 2022. ... You end up in a position where you are neither on sick leave nor unemployment benefits and at the same time cannot perform any offered work [due ...
Abstract. Introduction: The objective of this analysis is to describe patient demographics, the context, characteristics and outcomes of a substance-related poisoning, and the recorded mental disorder of people with housing and those experiencing homelessness. Methods: Hospitalization data for Canada (except Quebec) from 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020 were retrieved from the Canadian Institute ...
Qualitative research collects data qualitatively, and the method of analysis is also primarily qualitative. This often involves an inductive exploration of the data to identify recurring themes, patterns, or concepts and then describing and interpreting those categories. Of course, in qualitative research, the data collected qualitatively can ...
A qualitative descriptive method was used with a case study approach involving field observations and structured interviews. The research results show the success of Posyandu Prima in reducing stunting rates significantly in the last two years. The Surabaya City Government has proven effective in managing this program's human resources and budget.
This study is descriptive qualitative research. We used qualitative methods to better understand the cultural practices during pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum to identify practices that negatively affect maternal and newborn health and to help recommend interventions to abolish such harmful practices [ 10 ].