The Analytic Challenge in Interpretive Description
By S. Thorne, S. Kirkham, Kathy O'Flynn-Magee. 2004
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The past decade has witnessed remarkable evolution within qualitative health research as scholars have moved beyond initial adherence to the specific methods of phenomenology, grounded theory, and ethnography to develop methods more responsive to the experience-based questions of interest to a practice-based discipline. Interpretive description (Thorne, Reimer Kirkham, & MacDonald-Emes, 1997) is an inductive analytic approaches designed to create ways of understanding clinical phenomena that yield applications implications. In this article, we further develop our understanding of this methodological alternative by elaborating on the objective and mechanisms of its analytic processes and by expanding our consideration of its interpretive products.
Subfields: Education, Sociology and Political Science
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- Characteristics of Qualitative Descriptive Studies: A Systematic Review (2016, background): “Tseng, Chen, and Wang (2014) cited Thorne, Reimer Kirkham, and O’Flynn-Magee (2004)'s interpretive description as the inductive analytic approach.”
- Purposive sampling: complex or simple? Research case examples (2020, background): “ID studies generate an ID of the themes and patterns captured within subjective perceptions around a phenomena of clinical interest (Thorne et al., 2004) and produce practice-relevant knowledge that can be immediately applied in the clinical context (Thorne, 2016; Hunt, 2009).”