Using meta ethnography to synthesise qualitative research: a worked example

By N. Britten, R. Campbell, Catherine Pope, J. Donovan, M. Morgan, R. Pill. Journal of Health Services Research and Policy, 2002

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science, Statistics and Probability

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Improving response rates using a monetary incentive for patient completion of questionnaires: an observational study (2007, positive): “in one setting are not applicable to others [32].”
Qualitative Methods for Health Research (2004, positive): “Nicky Britten and colleagues (Britten et al. 2002) argue that there are good grounds for developing formal methods of meta-analysis for qualitative studies, as an alternative to traditional narrative reviews of existing literature, and suggest a more qualitative approach for doing this. Using George”
A scoring system for appraising mixed methods research, and concomitantly appraising qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods primary studies in Mixed Studies Reviews. (2009, background): “Reviews of qualitative studies sometimes require the collaboration of authors of primary studies, and time-consuming secondary analysis of primary qualitative data (Britten et al., 2002).”
Factors Influencing Academic Motivation of Ethnic Minority Students: A Review (2018, methodology): “In a second step, all articles included were qualitatively synthesized by means of meta-ethnography (Bearman & Dawson, 2013; Britten et al., 2002).”
Meta-synthesis method for qualitative research: a literature review. (2005, methodology): “The temporary and partial knowledge claims of theory generation within this method are termed ‘mid range theory’ by several authors (Estabrooks & Field 1994, Britten et al. 2002), perhaps mirroring Glaser and Strauss’s (1967) datadriven ‘substantive theory’.”
How Do Hunter-Gatherer Children Learn Social and Gender Norms? A Meta-Ethnographic Review (2018, methodology): “However, meta-ethnographies provide a systematic approach to comparing various forms of research, including quantitative and qualitative studies, and thus are applicable across several fields of research (Britten et al., 2002; Lew-Levy et al., 2017; MacEachen, Clarke, Franche, & Irvin, 2006).”
Empirical studies of agile software development: A systematic review (2008, background): “In a meta-ethnographic synthesis, studies can relate to one another in one of three ways: they may be directly comparable as reciprocal translations; they may stand in opposition to one another as refutational translations; or taken together they may represent a line of argument [13].”
Guidance on Conducting a Systematic Literature Review (2017, methodology): “Tables 1 and 2 in Britten et al. (2002) outline the processes of extracting firstand second-order constructs from the literature and generating third-order constructs to conduct a meta-analysis.”
Qualitative Metasynthesis: Reflections on Methodological Orientation and Ideological Agenda (2004, methodology): “Britten et al. (2002) have employed Schutz’s ideas to consider how “third-order” concepts were useful in a line of argument synthesis, which has been very instructive to me about the complexity of inference (as we put it) in this form of synthesis.”
How can systematic reviews incorporate qualitative research? A critical perspective (2006, methodology): “We aimed to compare narrative review, meta-ethnography (based on work by Britten et al., 2002; Campbell et al., 2003; and Noblit and Hare, 1988) and Bayesian meta-analysis (based on Roberts et al., 2002).”
Recommended Steps for Thematic Synthesis in Software Engineering (2011, background): “It is these interpretations, the idea of 'going beyond' the content of the primary studies to perform some form of conceptual innovation, that is key to the synthesis [9].”