Qualitative research: standards, challenges, and guidelines

By K. Malterud. The Lancet, 2001

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Subfields: Education, General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science

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Health consequences of workplace bullying: experiences from the perspective of employees in the public service sector (2006, background): “Qualitative research does not provide findings that are generally transferable (Malterud, 2001), but should be seen as containing descriptions or models applicable within specified settings.”
The case study approach (2011, background): “participants checking emerging findings and the researcher’s interpretation, and providing an opinion as to whether they feel these are accurate); and transparency throughout the research process (see Table 8) [8,18-21,23,26].”
Fixation and creativity in concept development: the attitudes and practices of expert designers (2015, background): “…naturalistic enquiry and the results of controlled experiments can each inform the other (Dunbar, 2001, pp. 330e322; also see Levitt & List, 2007; Malterud, 2001a, 2001b).26 In addition to being used in the planning of future fixation studies, the analysis reported here might also assist in the…”
Applying a mixed method of quantitative and qualitative design in explaining the travel motivation of film tourists in visiting a film-shooting destination (2015, methodology): “Hence, integrating both qualitative and quantitative research into one study as a mixed method provides better insights into a phenomenon (Forman, Creswell, Damschroder, Kowalski, & Krein, 2008; Jacobs, Kawanaka, & Stigler, 1999; Kajornboon, 2005; Malterud, 2001; Polit & Beck, 2010).”
A practical guide to reflexivity in qualitative research: AMEE Guide No. 149 (2022, background): “…influence on their research enables researchers to enhance the confirmability (the degree to which the results could be confirmed by other researchers) and transferability (the degree to which the results can be applied to other settings) of the findings (Koch and Harrington 1998; Malterud 2001).”
Assessing the quality of qualitative research. (2013, background): “in diversity in qualitative methods has grown [12], as has interest in developing new approaches specifically for clinical”
It is hard work behaving as a credible patient: encounters between women with chronic pain and their doctors. (2003, background): “We will look at things from a slightly different angle here, and argue that an assessment of what these patients’ experiences are valid about, is more relevant than asking whether they are true or false (Malterud, 2001).”
Consolidated criteria for reporting qualitative research (COREQ): a 32-item checklist for interviews and focus groups. (2007, neutral): “[26] [27] [6] [28] b [32] [13] [15] [14] [17] [33] [34] [35] [16] [19] [36] [7] [37] [23] [38] [39] [22] BMJ”
Factors Influencing Academic Motivation of Ethnic Minority Students: A Review (2018, methodology): “…at the manner of coding, the policy applied for reaching consensus and reflexivity (i.e., the role of the researcher in constructing knowledge in each step of the research process; Malterud, 2001); in the quantitative studies, we considered sample size, study design, and the instruments used.”
Mindfulness Training for Teachers Changes the Behavior of Their Preschool Students (2013, methodology): “Although this method is more subjective than other qualitative methods, it does provide the first steps in formulating questions for future research (Malterud, 2001).”