Whatever happened to qualitative description?

By M. Sandelowski. Research in Nursing and Health, 2000

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Characteristics of Qualitative Descriptive Studies: A Systematic Review (2016, methodology): “…“a rich, straight description” of experiences, perceptions, or events using language from the collected data (Neergaard et al.) through low-inference (or data-near) interpretation during data analysis (Sandelowski, 2000, 2010), which was seen in all QD articles included in this systematic review.”
Latina Mothers’ Cultural Beliefs About Their Children, Parental Roles, and Education: Implications for Effective and Empowering Home-School Partnerships (2011, background): “goal a rich summary of events in their everyday terms ( Sandelowski 2000 ).”
Situating and Constructing Diversity in Semi-Structured Interviews (2015, background): “Quantification or counting is not incongruous with, but integral to, qualitative research (Morgan, 1993; Morse, 2012; Sandelowski, 2000).”
Describing Populations and Samples in Doctoral Student Research (2021, background): “Topics that are narrow in scope, seek relatively superficial levels of examination, and have low inference, such as in descriptive designs, require only a moderate amount of data (Sandelowski, 2000).”
Improving the usefulness of a tool for appraising the quality of qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods studies, the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool (MMAT) (2018, methodology): “This method stays close to the data and focuses on reporting the manifest content of data, rather than being highly interpretive and conceptual.(23,24) Qualitative description is appropriate in mixed methods research for the development and refinement of questionnaires or interventions.”
The use of triangulation in qualitative research. (2014, unknown): “…have pointed out that researchers rarely evaluate or discuss this approach (Clayton, Butow, Arnold, & Tat-tersall, 2005; Duggleby, 2005; Kitzinger, 1994; Lehoux, Poland, & Daudelin, 2006; Sandelowski, 2000; Sandelowski & Bar-roso, 2003; Webb & Kevern, 2001; Zorn, Roper, Broadfoot, & Weaver, 2006).”
‘It was Hard, But it was Good’: a qualitative exploration of stress-related growth in Division I intercollegiate athletes (2012, methodology): “Tedeschi and Calhoun’s (2004) FDT details the process of PTG rather than SRG.”
Implicit Transfer of Life Skills Through Participation in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (2016, methodology): “The qualitative descriptive study is the method of choice when straight descriptions of phenomena are desired to identify the basic components of events and when researchers want findings to remain close to their data (Sandelowski, 2000).”
Qualitative Descriptive Methods in Health Science Research (2016, methodology): “…of codes derived from the theoretical framework and relevant literature (Fonteyn et al., 2008; Hsieh & Shannon, 2005; Miles et al., 2014); and developing a monitoring plan (fidelity) to ensure that junior researchers, especially do not go ‘‘beyond the data’’ (Sandelowski, 2000) in interpretation.”
Employing a Qualitative Description Approach in Health Care Research (2017, methodology): “A flexible plan of inquiry that is responsive to real-world contexts (Patterson & Morin, 2012), naturalistic study methods (Holloway, 2005; Sandelowski, 2000), and rigor can also be included in research methods.”
Coping with loneliness at University: A qualitative interview study with students in the UK (2019, background): “Qualitative description seeks to provide a rich description of an event or experience that stays close to participants’ accounts (Sandelowski, 2000), and constitutes a pragmatic approach that is often deployed to inform practice, policy making, and the development or refinement of interventions (Nee”
From “It Has Stopped Our Lives” to “Spending More Time Together Has Strengthened Bonds”: The Varied Experiences of Australian Families During COVID-19 (2020, background): “The goal of descriptive qualitative studies is to provide “a comprehensive summary of events in the everyday terms of those events” and to take participant responses as they are rather than interpreting the data beyond what is provided by participants (Sandelowski, 2000; Kim et al., 2017).”