Qualitative Research: Reaching the parts other methods cannot reach: an introduction to qualitative methods in health and health services research
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Qualitative research methods have a long history in the social sciences and deserve to be an essential component in health and health services research. Qualitative and quantitative approaches to research tend to be portrayed as antithetical; the aim of this series of papers is to show the value of a range of qualitative techniques and how they can complement quantitative research.
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Qualitative research methods are best suited to address questions about why people have discomfort with technology, believe it cannot help them, or prefer existing healthcare arrangements.
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“Qualitative research can provide valuable insight into an individual’s lived experience and can help to explore complex phenomena that are difficult to understand only with quantitative research in the clinical field (22).”
Background
- Authors
- Pope, C., & Mays, N.
- Affiliations
- University of Leicester (GB)
- ORCID
- Pope, Catherine
- Venue
- BMJ
- Publisher
- BMJ
- Published
- 1995-07-01
- Volume
- 311
- Issue
- 6996
- Pages
- 42-45
- ISSN
- 0007-1447 (ISSN-L)
- 0959-8138
- 1468-5833
- PMC
- PMC2550091
- OpenAlex
- W2104667268
- Cited by
- 2,336
- References
- 15
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- FWCI
- 216.85
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Licence
- www.bmj.com/company/legal-information/terms-conditions/legal-information/tdm-licencepolicy (tdm)
- Locations
- BMJ (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- HighWire Press Open Archive (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Education › Qualitative Research Methods and Applications
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
- Social Sciences › Education › Qualitative research in health
- Keywords
- qualitative research, health services research, health research, research methodology
- MeSH terms
- United Kingdom, Health Services Research, Humans, Research Design
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