Rachel L. Shaw

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe their experiences, as a very diverse multidisciplinary group, in attempting to incorporate qualitative research in a systematic review of support for breastfeeding, and show how every stage of the review process, from asking the review question through to searching for and sampling the evidence, appraising the evidence and producing a synthesis, provoked profound questions about whether a review that includes qualitative research can remain consistent with the frame offered by current systematic review methodology.

TL;DR: This work distinguishes universal features of quality from those specific to methodology and offers a set of minimally prescriptive prompts to assist with the assessment of generic features of qualitative research.

TL;DR: Structured approaches may not produce greater consistency of judgements about whether to include qualitative papers in a systematic review, and reviewers' dilemmas in deciding between the potential impact of findings and the quality of the research execution or reporting practice are revealed.

TL;DR: The authors argued that reflexivity is integral to experiential qualitative research in psychology, and proposed reflexivity as hermeneutic reflection as a useful construct for guiding our engagement in reflexivity.

TL;DR: It is confirmed that strategies that attempt to maximise the number of potentially relevant records found are likely to result in a large number of false positives and suggested that a range of search terms is required to optimise searching for qualitative evidence.