Health Sciences 3910F/G Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Qualitative Inquiry, Qualitative Comparative Analysis, Statistical Significance
13 Apr 2020
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Sandelowski, m. , docherty, s. , & emden, c. (1997). Research in nursing & health, 20(4), 365 371. doi: In order for qualitative research findings to have an impact, they must be placed within the larger context and presented in a way that is accessible for practice and policy making in the real world. Knowledge must be used conceptually or instrumentally by a variety of potential users. Qualitative metasynthesis is defined as the theories, grand narratives, generalizations, or interpretive translations that are produced from the comparison or integration of findings from qualitative research studies. It is ethically and epistemologically inappropriate to make an attempt to summarize findings from qualitative studies that address the human experience of health and illness. Turning idiographic knowledge into data to be synthesized often results in the loss of the uniqueness of the individual projects and departure from the goals of qualitative research. This offsets the failure of generalizations from quantitative studies in the context of individual cases.
