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Qualitative content analysis in nursing research: concepts, procedures and measures to achieve trustworthiness

Qualitative research is inquiry aimed at describing and clarifying human experience as it appears in people's lives. Researchers using qualitative methods gather data that serve as evidence for their distilled descriptions. Qualitative data are gathered primarily in the form of spoken or written lan

Language and meaning: Data collection in qualitative research.

Introduction PART ONE: SITUATING THE DISCOVERY OF GROUNDED THEORY Situating the Discovery of Grounded Theory within the Tradition of Qualitative Methods Situating Grounded Theory within Its Philosophical, Sociological and Personal Contexts PART TWO: THE GROUNDED THEORY RESEARCH APPROACH Distinguishing Characteristics of Grounded Theories Grounded Theory's Research Operations Evolution of Grounded Theory's Research Operations PART THREE: THE GROUNDED THEORY APPROACH IN MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATION STUDIES Grounded Theory in Studies of Management and Organization Writing Grounded Theory

Grounded Theory in Management Research

Feminist historian Joan Scott’s classic essay, “The Evidence of Experience,” many
times reprinted, extends the semiotic principle that there is no unmediated access to
reality-that language, in the form of available discourses, prefigures our perception
of the world-to the heart of the traditional historian’s notion of historical transparency, the evidence of experience. For most historians, from Herodotus on,
evidence (a word derived from the Latin videre, to see), typically functions as the
bedrock of historical truth and objectivity, since it is grounded in the testimony of
those who actually experience “what happened.” The essay opens with Samuel
Delany’s account of a visit to a homosexual bathhouse, an experience that, in its
powerful visibility, persuaded him of the “fact” of homosexuality as a mass movement, shaping the shared lives of millions of men and women, in contrast to the view
of homosexuals at the time as “isolated” marginal figures. Delany’s reliance on the
“truth” of the evidence provided by his experience of the bathhouse is analogous to
the historian’s belief in a referential notion of evidence that presents it as a “reflection
of the real.”

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The evidence of experience

Much qualitative research is interview based, and this paper provides an outline of qualitative interview techniques and their application in medical settings. It explains the rationale for these techniques and shows how they can be used to research kinds of questions that are different from those dealt with by quantitative methods. Different types of qualitative interviews are described, and the way in which they differ from clinical consultations is emphasised. Practical guidance for conducting such interviews is given.

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Qualitative interviews in medical research.

An Introduction to Qualitative Methods When to Use Qualitative Methods Designing Qualitative Evaluations Fieldwork and Observation Depth Interviewing Analyzing and Interpreting Qualitative Data Making Methods Decisions Controversy and Philosophy

Michael Quinn Patton

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How to use qualitative methods in evaluation