What's in a name? Qualitative description revisited.

By M. Sandelowski. Research in Nursing and Health, 2010

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science

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Qualitative Descriptive Methods in Health Science Research (2016, methodology): “In two seminal articles, Sandelowski promotes the mainstream use of qualitative description (Sandelowski, 2000, 2010) as a well-developed but unacknowledged method which provides a ‘‘comprehensive summary of an event in the every day terms of those events’’ (Sandelowski, 2000, p. 336).”
Employing a Qualitative Description Approach in Health Care Research (2017, neutral): “Qualitative description research strives for in-depth understanding but with emphasis first on literal description (Sandelowski, 2010) and then on the understanding of human phenomena through analysis and interpretation of meaning people ascribe to events.”
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).”
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.”
Content analysis and thematic analysis: Implications for conducting a qualitative descriptive study. (2013, background): “A factist perspective assumes data to be more or less accurate and truthful indexes of the reality out there (Sandelowski, 2010).”
Theme development in qualitative content analysis and thematic analysis (2016, background): “[2, 8] In other words, they focus on the explicit description of the content of communication with a limited reflection on its implicit meaning.[9, 10]”
Characteristics of Qualitative Descriptive Studies: A Systematic Review (2016, methodology): “Qualitative description revisited” (Sandelowski, 2010).”