Validity, reliability, and generalizability in qualitative research

By Lawrence Leung. Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2015

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In general practice, qualitative research contributes as significantly as quantitative research, in particular regarding psycho-social aspects of patient-care, health services provision, policy setting, and health administrations. In contrast to quantitative research, qualitative research as a whole has been constantly critiqued, if not disparaged, by the lack of consensus for assessing its quality and robustness. This article illustrates with five published studies how qualitative research can impact and reshape the discipline of primary care, spiraling out from clinic-based health screening to community-based disease monitoring, evaluation of out-of-hours triage services to provincial psychiatric care pathways model and finally, national legislation of core measures for children's healthcare insurance. Fundamental concepts of validity, reliability, and generalizability as applicable to qualitative research are then addressed with an update on the current views and controversies.

Subfields: General Health Professions

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Citations in the corpus

• Comparison of rapid vs in-depth qualitative analytic methods from a process evaluation of academic detailing in the Veterans Health Administration (2019, result): “With respect to consistency of our RA and in-depth analysis findings [14], themes from the RA were well-aligned with the CFIR domains and constructs from the in-depth analysis.”
• A Review of the Quality Indicators of Rigor in Qualitative Research (2019, background): “The goal of rigor in qualitative research can be described as ensuring that the research design, method, and conclusions are explicit, public, replicable, open to critique, and free of bias.(41) Rigor in the research process and results are achieved when each element of studymethodology is systemati”