Margarete Sandelowski

The problem of rigor in qualitative research

There are few explicit discussions in nursing literature of how qualitative research can be made as rigorous as it is relevant to the perspective and goals of nursing. Four fact...

Reembodying Qualitative Inquiry

Although there are four large categories of research data, qualitative researchers have tended to emphasize interview data. Naive views of the interview, disembodied views of pa...

“To be of use”: Enhancing the utility of qualitative research

The good, the bad and the relative, part one: Conceptions of goodness in qualitative research

The good, the bad and the relative, part one: Conceptions of goodness in qualitative research This (part one) paper traces efforts to define ‘goodness’ in qualitative research w...

Writing the Proposal for a Qualitative Research Methodology Project

Writing the proposal for a qualitative research methodology study is a double challenge because of the emergent nature of qualitative research design and because a methodology s...

Qualitative analysis: What it is and how to begin

Abstract One of the most paralyzing moments in conducting qualitative research is beginning analysis, when researchers must first look at their data in order to see what they sh...

Qualitative metasynthesis: Issues and techniques

There has been an accumulation of qualitative studies in recent years, but little cumulation of the understandings gained from them. Qualitative research appears endangered both...

Creating Metasummaries of Qualitative Findings

Qualitative metasummaries are useful end products of research integration studies involving reports of findings in the form of qualitative surveys, and may serve as a foundation...

Sample size in qualitative research

Abstract A common misconception about sampling in qualitative research is that numbers are unimportant in ensuring the adequacy of a sampling strategy. Yet, simple sizes may be ...

One is the liveliest number: The case orientation of qualitative research

The epistemological thrust of qualitative research is case oriented. Regardless of qualitative methodology or sample size, qualitative research is quintessentially about underst...