On the Evolving World of What Constitutes Qualitative Synthesis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4661939 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sally Thorne (0000-0002-1156-9425, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 3-6 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Health Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1049-7323 • E-ISSN: 1552-7557 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1049732318813903 |
| PMID | 30799767 |
| OpenAlex | W2904116383 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 20 |
As the body of available qualitatively derived knowledge expands, there is increasing temptation to capitalize on it to generate knowledge synthesis products. Concurrently, in the wake of an ever-expanding enthusiasm for evidence-based practice knowledge in health care, scholars are facing pressure to forgo the more narrative or interpretive form of literature review in favor of reviews that are positioned as explicitly systematic. This has created a context in which both new and seasoned scholars are, in increasing numbers, working with extant bodies of qualitative literature in ways that counter the very motivations that drove health researchers into qualitative methods in the first place. In this commentary, I trace the evolution of this trend, illustrating how a reasonable original intent has taken a misguided turn in the context of competing understandings and priorities in health care knowledge development. On this basis, I propose a strategic direction for this journal as a leader in what constitutes the meaningful application of qualitative research methodological approaches, including that which purports to represent synthesis of available knowledge, for the purposes of addressing the inherently complex challenges of the health field
Engineering ethics · Enthusiasm · Epistemology · Extant taxon · Health care · Narrative · Political science · Public relations · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Temptation · Engineering · Health Policy Implementation Science · History · Law · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Applications · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Social Psychology
Care ensembles
Parents who migrate without their children
Integrating Literature as a Data Source in Mixed Methods Research
A narrative review of health research capacity strengthening in low and middle-income countries
Gratitude in Health Care
Developing a Critical Imagination for How Researchers can use Artificially Intelligent Tools Reflexively and Responsibly During Qualitative Literature Reviews
Experiences of female partners of prostate cancer survivors
Representations of Meta-Ethnography
Situating Preventive Action in a Moral and Clinical Context
Completing a Qualitative Project
Summing Up
Meta-Study of Qualitative Health Research
Finding the Findings in Qualitative Studies
Time to challenge the spurious hierarchy of systematic over narrative reviews?
Prenatal Care Use Among Women of Low Income
Meta-Ethnography
Qualitative Metasynthesis
Metatheorizing in sociology
Getting Started
Meta-Synthesis of Qualitative Findings
Aggregating Qualitative Findings
Metasynthetic Madness
Metatheory, Metamethod, Meta-Data-Analysis
| Citations per year | 1.29 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |