Classifying the Findings in Qualitative Studies

By M. Sandelowski, J. Barroso. Qualitative Health Research, 2003

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

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Understanding the massive open online course (MOOC) student experience: An examination of attitudes, motivations, and barriers (2017, background): “Our interpretative explanation (Sandelowski and Barroso, 2003) is that participants in MOOCs represent a diverse cross section of the world’s populations, and this leads to some great disparities in extrinsic motivations by credentials such as the ability to earn a certificate, while common…”
Using Qualitative Research (2004, background): “The empirical/analytical view of qualitative findings is that they are the results of inquiry supported by and, therefore, distinguishable from data (Sandelowski & Barroso, 2002a, 2003a).”
The Analytic Challenge in Interpretive Description (2004, background): “Such descriptions differ in form from those created in qualitative methods whose intent is to generate an entirely original and coherent new truth or metaphor, or what Sandelowski and Barroso (2003) might consider an “Interpretive Explanation.””
Choose Your Method: A Comparison of Phenomenology, Discourse Analysis, and Grounded Theory (2007, background): “The products of qualitative analyses can range from thematic surveys (relatively close to the data) to interpretive explanatory theory (farthest from the data) (Sandelowski & Barroso, 2003).”
Systematicity in Organizational Research Literature Reviews: A Framework and Assessment (2021, background): “…of the science, literature reviews are increasingly utilized to integrate, refine, and elaborate theory (Baumeister & Leary, 1997; Grant & Booth, 2009; Leidner, 2018; Post et al., 2020; Rowe, 2014; Sandelowski & Barroso, 2003; Siddaway et al., 2019; Tranfield et al., 2003; Xiao & Watson, 2019).”
Making Phenomenological Inquiry Accessible: A Review of Jonathan A. Smith, Paul Flowers, and Michael Larkin’s Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis: Theory, Method, and Research (2009, methodology): “This is a good strategy because qualitative research methodologies such as IPA transform the data more than what transpires in generic qualitative content analysis approaches (Sandelowski & Barroso, 2003) which may only produce codes and categories.”
"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger": Survivalist self-reliance as resilience and risk among young adults aging out of foster care (2008, methodology): “This study is situated in the tradition of interpretive science, which requires analysis to expand beyond a literal description of data toward conceptual findings, thereby avoiding the sense that the quotes “speak for themselves” (Sandelowski & Barroso, 2003).”
Theme development in qualitative content analysis and thematic analysis (2016, background): “[29, 30] Category refers to explicit content of text and is a simple description of the participants’ accounts.”
Thematic analysis of qualitative data: AMEE Guide No. 131 (2020, methodology): “Many qualitative research papers lack explicit description of the methods informing data analysis, or, when included, the terms used to describe data analytic methods are often used imprecisely or are mislabeled entirely (Sandelowski and Barroso 2003; Sandelowski 2010).”
A Call for Qualitative Power Analyses (2007, background): “Although there is little consensus about what qualitative research is and how it should be undertaken (Schwandt, 2000; Sandelowski and Barroso, 2003b), there is general agreement that the goal of qualitative research is not to generalize beyond a sample to the population.”
Content analysis and thematic analysis: Implications for conducting a qualitative descriptive study. (2013, methodology): “For instance, it has not been uncommon to find that qualitative content analysis is classified as a type of narrative analysis (Sandelowski & Barroso, 2003a; Sparker, 2005).”
Qualitative Metasynthesis: Reflections on Methodological Orientation and Ideological Agenda (2004, methodology): “In the course of our study, we developed a method we call qualitative metasummary (Sandelowski & Barroso, 2003b) to accommodate those reports of primary qualitative studies containing findings in the form of topical or thematic summaries or surveys of the data researchers had collected.”
Understanding Qualitative Metasynthesis (2011, background): “Sandelowski and Barroso (2003) developed a typology of findings to classify qualitative data by type and content of findings with emphasis on the degree of transformation of data.”