A practical guide to reflexivity in qualitative research
Amee Guide No. 149
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19604477 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Francisco Manuel Olmos‐Vega (0000-0003-1629-4309, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, corresponding author), Renée E Stalmeijer (0000-0001-8690-5326, Maastricht University), Lara Varpio (0000-0002-1412-4341, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences), Renate Kahlke (0000-0002-4473-5039, McMaster University) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 241-251 |
| Publication date | 2022-04-07 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Medical Teacher (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0142-159X • E-ISSN: 1466-187X |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0142159x.2022.2057287 |
| PMID | 35389310 |
| OpenAlex | W4225944184 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 520 |
| References cited | 52 |
Qualitative research relies on nuanced judgements that require researcher reflexivity, yet reflexivity is often addressed superficially or overlooked completely during the research process. In this AMEE Guide, we define reflexivity as a set of continuous, collaborative, and multifaceted practices through which researchers self-consciously critique, appraise, and evaluate how their subjectivity and context influence the research processes. We frame reflexivity as a way to embrace and value researchers' subjectivity. We also describe the purposes that reflexivity can have depending on different paradigmatic choices. We then address how researchers can account for the significance of the intertwined personal, interpersonal, methodological, and contextual factors that bring research into being and offer specific strategies for communicating reflexivity in research dissemination. With the growth of qualitative research in health professions education, it is essential that qualitative researchers carefully consider their paradigmatic stance and use reflexive practices to align their decisions at all stages of their research. We hope this Guide will illuminate such a path, demonstrating how reflexivity can be used to develop and communicate rigorous qualitative research
Context (archaeology) · Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Interpersonal communication · Process (computing) · Qualitative research · Reflexivity · Set (abstract data type) · Social science · Sociology · Subjectivity · Computer Science · Mental Health and Patient Involvement · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Social Psychology
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Epistemic Doubt as Method
Climate emotions and future planning
Exploring the Lived Experiences of Racialized Parents Accessing Pediatric Rehabilitation Services in Ontario, Canada
Disruptive shocks in global agri-food value chains
“They can coach themselves essentially”
Bridging understanding and practice
Normalization of abuse and barriers to reporting among adolescents and young people in settings of displacement in Nigeria
Exploitation or economic prosperity
Effectiveness of Mentoring for Improving Lived Experience Engagement in Research
Engaging Youth in Global Health Research Through Photovoice and Reflexivity
Parents’ perceptions of their children’s behavior following the perinatal death of a sibling
Embodied scarcity
Power, Intersectionality, and Integration
Learning when not to share
“With each one, a little of you dies” – portrayals of early pregnancy loss in films and TV-series
‘Is something wrong with mine?’
Feasibility of LifeLab Dublin
Towards a Feminist Global Health Policy
Educational interventions to improve pediatric emergency care
Queer and transgender joy
Pediatric Anesthesia Providers’ Perspective on the Real-Life Implementation of the Philips Visual Patient Avatar
Partnering with Young Parents to Improve Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Programmes
Lived experiences of South African rehabilitation practitioners during coronavirus disease 2019
Intersex Epistemologies? Reviewing Relevant Perspectives in Intersex Studies
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Stuck Due to Covid”
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The Cultural Lens of Childhood
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Fostering the clinician as teacher
Community Advisory Board Members Speak Out
Unintentional Home Injuries
Barriers to physical activity among adolescents with asthma and obesity
Engaging families to create a better post-pandemic future
Understanding Staff Experiences and Support Needs Relating to the Deaths of People Experiencing Homelessness
An Exploratory Qualitative Study of Beverage Sweetening Practices in Middle Eastern Families
Sample size for saturation in qualitative research
Role and meaning of physical places of solace for serious illness, death and grief
Toward an interpretive approach to recognition justice in energy transitions
Trustworthiness as Inferential Accountability in Qualitative Research
Facilitators and barriers to Latino/a adolescents' help‐seeking behaviors
Uplifting the Voices of Marginalized Black Communities
Applying adaptive research methods to explore health literacy in young people with intellectual disability
‘Are we getting through to them? And in what way?’ Communicating physical activity with adolescents
Community listening to understand determinants of healthy eating in an Australian priority community
Listening to Aboriginal mothers
Black Boys' Perceptions of Depression and Mental Health
Specimens as individuals
Implementation Challenges and Expectations on Family and Community Nurses in Italy
Applying Hybrid Coding and Reflexivity in Qualitative Content Analysis
Negotiating healthy food retail initiatives in the research project Healthier Choices in Supermarkets
The Burdens of Underrepresentation and Professional Identity
Social reintegration of fistula survivors in North Central Nigeria
The Way the System is Working Out, It's Not Working at All”
A Mixed-Methods Usability Pilot of a Value-Goal Elicitation Tool in the Inpatient Setting for Older Adults Anticipating Post-Acute Care
Positionalities in disaster recovery research
Women’s healthcare needs and access across the incarceration pathway in Israel
Barriers and facilitators to healthy eating during post‐partum among non‐Hispanic Black mothers
Kurdish Refugee Beliefs about Mental Health and Help-Seeking
Seeing Food Through Young Children’s Eyes
People at Risk of, or with Cardiovascular Diseases’ Perspectives and Perceptions of Physiotherapist-Led Health Promotion in Cameroon
Factors influencing the intention to purchase health insurance among middle-income Malaysians
Implementing Evidence-Based Practices in Rural Areas
An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Counseling Interns’ Experiences Serving Older Adults
Allied Health Professions Accreditation Standards for Work Integrated Learning
Exploring communication supports for children with visual impairment and blindness
Beyond Burnout
Evaluation of the Early Years South Australia mobile application
Come What May”
Access and Early Integration of Palliative Care in the Non-Hospital Setting for Individuals Living with Cancer in the United States
Qualitative insights from patient/caregivers, and clinicians on routine use of the EQ-5D-Y-5L in clinical paediatric care—results from a pilot feasibility and acceptability trial
Community-based maternal and perinatal death surveillance and response
The perception of risk in contracting and spreading Covid-19 amongst individuals, households and vulnerable groups in England
Empowering Chinese university health service providers to become mental health champions
Voices in Motion
Mirrors for Pacific Islander Children
Improving Representation in Autism Research
The Regenerative Lens
Inter-community participatory social network analysis
Perinatal fetal loss grief counselling experience for expectant fathers
Indian STEM student migrants’ practices in Kazakhstan
Artificial intelligence as a reflexive collaborator in graduate studies supervision
Unpacking the practices of compound hazard communication
Exploring Local Government Behaviors Towards the Sustainable Development of Tourism Real Estate in Hainan Island
Un amigo es una luz brillando en la oscuridad
Fluid Swipes and Solid Care on Dating Apps
Enhancing practitioner research in school settings
Dialogue in action
A Qualitative Inquiry into Mindfulness Practices Among College Students in India and the United States
The idiodynamic method as an innovative research tool in L2 motivation
Adolescent flourishing in a digitally connected world
Between, beside and beyond the binary
From reflection to design
Creating the space for autistic children’s agency and genuine engagement in research
Embodied renegotiation
A mixed-methods study investigating the acceptability of an early acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) intervention to aid adjustment to appearance changes after burns
Learning to Interview
Exploring Black British African and Caribbean peoples' experiences of self‐harm and accessing support
The Sage Handbook of Current Developments in Grounded Theory
How phenomenology can help us learn from the experiences of others
Asking Questions of the Data
An Unnecessary KIS? The UK’s Key Information Set, was it Really needed and What was its Real Purpose?
Reconceptualizing rigour
Reflection and reflective practice in health professions education
The Distinctions Between Theory, Theoretical Framework, and Conceptual Framework
Memoing in qualitative research
Qualitative research
The Discovery of Grounded Theory
Postpositivism in Health Professions Education Scholarship
Philosophy of Science Series
The applicability of generalisability and bias to health professions education's research
Shedding the cobra effect
The methods of reflexivity
Distributing Reflexivity through Co-laborative Ethnography
Bracketing in Research
Autoethnography as a Strategy for Engaging in Reflexivity
Reflexivity, its Meanings and Relevance for Social Work
A Reflexive Lens
Collective Reflexivity
Methodological reflexivity
Towards reflexive practice
The Evolution of Epistemology and Concepts in an Iterative‐Generative Reflective Practice
Now You See Them, Now You Don’t
Being in, being out, being with
Confession, catharsis, or cure? Rethinking the uses of reflexivity as methodological power in qualitative research
Getting Personal
The Problem of Bracketing in Phenomenology
Using Reflexivity to Optimize Teamwork in Qualitative Research
"Outing" the Researcher
Member Checking
Incorporating Perspective Taking in Reflexivity
Bridging Conceptions of Quality in Moments of Qualitative Research
Contextual Reflexivity
Negotiating the swamp
Introduction to the Special Issue
Qualitative Quality
Against Reflexivity as an Academic Virtue and Source of Privileged Knowledge
Reflexive Accounts and Accounts of Reflexivity in Qualitative Data Analysis
| Unique citing works | 520 |
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| Citations per year | 130 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 486 |