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Checklists for improving rigour in qualitative research: a case of the tail wagging the dog?
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Checklists can be useful improving qualitative research methods, but overzealous and uncritical use can be counterproductive Reducing qualitative research to a list of technical procedures (such as purposive sampling, grounded theory, multiple coding, triangulation, and respondent validation) is overly prescriptive and results in “the tail wagging the dog” None of these “technical fixes” in itself confers rigour; they can strengthen the rigour of qualitative research only if embedded in a broader understanding of qualitative research design and data analysis Otherwise we risk compromising the unique contribution that systematic qualitative research can make to health services research.
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Checklists can help qualitative research gain acceptance, but using them prescriptively risks reducing qualitative research to technical fixes and letting “the tail wag the dog.” The paper argues that purposive sampling, grounded theory, multiple coding, triangulation, and respondent validation do not in themselves confer rigour unless embedded in broader qualitative understanding.
Key findings
- Checklists have contributed to wider acceptance of qualitative methods, but overzealous and uncritical use can be counterproductive; reducing qualitative research to a list of technical procedures is overly prescriptive.
- The five technical fixes discussed—purposive sampling, grounded theory, multiple coding, triangulation, and respondent validation—do not in themselves confer rigour; they can strengthen rigour only if embedded in a broad understanding of qualitative research design and data analysis.
- Multiple coding’s value lies less in concordance than in the content of disagreements and the insights discussion provides for refining coding frames; the paper cites Armstrong et al., in which six experienced researchers independently coded one focus group transcript and showed substantial agreement but considerable variation in how they packaged coding frameworks.
- Triangulation is difficult to perform properly because different methods produce parallel datasets that defy direct comparison; similar findings provide corroboration, but absence of similar findings does not provide grounds for refutation. Respondent validation can refine explanations but may lead to collusion or be exploitative/distressing, and is particularly valuable in action research rather than one-off data collection.
Methods
- Design: methodological critique/commentary, not an empirical study; the article outlines limitations of five popular “technical fixes” and argues for systematic application of qualitative principles.
- Data or sample: no primary sample or dataset; the argument draws on the author’s experience reviewing journal articles and grant submissions, recent journals, and cited literature, and is based on a presentation to the British Sociological Association’s Regional Medical Sociology Group in London in March 2000.
- Main analysis: conceptual examination of purposive sampling, grounded theory, multiple coding, triangulation, and respondent validation, with a table summarising the concerns each is thought to address and its realistic potential.
Limitations
- The paper does not state formal limitations; it notes that claims about researchers having to comply with journal requirements may be exaggerated and that the article is based on a conference presentation.
- Evident from the text: as a commentary/opinion piece, it does not use a systematic review, formal sampling, or empirical data collection, so its claims rest on the author’s experience and selected citations.
- Evident from the text: the examples and table are conceptual and illustrative; no quantitative estimates of prevalence or effect are provided.
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“Despite disclaimers by authors that their checklists should be viewed as being “reflective rather than constitutive of good research,”5 there is evidence that checklists are sometimes being used prescriptively.”
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“Although six experienced researchers who independently coded one focus group transcript showed substantial agreement, Armstrong et al found considerable variation in the ways that they packaged coding frameworks (including the language used).16”
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“Therefore, it does not readily lend itself to the production or observance of such a hierarchy of evidence.18”
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“Qualitative research, however, is usually carried out from a relativist perspective, which acknowledges the existence of multiple views of equal validity.1”
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“In other words, samples may have been selected purposively, but they are not being used purposefully to interrogate the data collected.”
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“However, triangulation is difficult to perform properly: data collected using different methods come in different forms and defy direct comparison.”
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“The uncritical adoption of a range of “technical fixes” (such as purposive sampling, grounded theory, multiple coding, triangulation, and respondent validation) does not, in itself, confer rigour.”
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“None of these “technical fixes” in itself confers rigour”
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“None of these technical fixes, in itself, confers rigour.”
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“This is because different methods used in qualitative research furnish parallel datasets, each affording only a partial view of the whole picture.”
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“This is true for different types of qualitative data, such as interview and focus group transcripts, as well as for the more obvious differences between qualitative and quantitative data.”
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“Rather than aspiring to statistical generalisability or representativeness,6 qualitative research usually aims to reflect the diversity within a given population.7”
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- Not checked yetcites [7] Kuzel AJ .Sampling in qualitative inquiry. In: Crabtree BF Miller WL , eds. Doing qualitative research. London:Sage,1992:31–44.
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“When they are provided at all, details of sampling are often dealt with in the methods section of papers and are disregarded in the analysis section, which often consists of little more than a description of undifferentiated themes that emerged during data analysis.”
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“Sometimes researchers choose to disregard their own interpretations and to accept those of respondents at face value.”
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“However, few published papers yield the surprises likely to be a feature of analyses driven entirely by respondents' concerns, and the terminology and theories to which papers appeal generally bear an uncanny resemblance to current disciplinary concerns and debates.”
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“All too often, however, the tension between these two different sorts of insight—and its potential to illuminate the topic being studied—is not explored in the presentation of findings.”
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“Over the past two years, several researchers have informed me that they must comply with various procedures (such as respondent validation, multiple coding, etc) in order to satisfy the requirements of specific journals where they hope to publish their work.”
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“From reading recent journals and my experience of reviewing journal articles and grant submissions, I find that the five technical fixes currently enjoying the greatest popularity are purposive sampling, grounded theory, multiple coding, triangulation, and respondent validation (table).”
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“With purposive sampling, researchers deliberately seek to include “outliers” conventionally discounted in quantitative approaches.9”
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- Not checked yetcites [9] Barbour, 1999, The case for combining qualitative and quantitative approaches in health services research., J Health Serv Res Policy source
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“It can be useful to have another person cast an eye over segments of data or emergent coding frameworks, and this is a core activity of supervision sessions and research team meetings.15”
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“Such exercises encourage thoroughness, both in interrogating the data at hand and in providing an account of how an analysis was developed.”
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“The production of similar findings from different methods merely provides corroboration or reassurance; the absence of similar findings does not, however, provide grounds for refutation.”
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“Otherwise we risk compromising the unique contribution that systematic qualitative research can make to health services research”
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“Otherwise we run the risk of compromising the unique contribution that systematic and thoughtfully carried out qualitative research can make to health services research.”
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“Richardson suggests that it is more helpful to conceive of complementary rather than competing perspectives and offers the term “crystallisation” as an alternative to triangulation.19”
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“In the absence of an attempt to systematically analyse the commonalities and contradictions reflected in the data, many researchers produce an artificially neat and tidy account that is descriptive rather than analytical and which militates against formulating in-depth analyses.”
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“Most health services research, however, involves a one-off data collection exercise, in which respondent validation may be more trouble than it is worth.”
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“Whether this is carried out by a conscientious lone researcher, by a team, or by involving independent experts is immaterial: what matters is that a systematic process is followed and that this is rendered transparent in the written research project.”
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“Although checklists have undoubtedly contributed to the wider acceptance of such methods, these can be counterproductive if used prescriptively.”
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“A sleight of hand produces a list of “themes,” and we are invited to take it on trust that theory somehow emerges from the data without being offered a step by step explanation of how theoretical insights have been built up.”
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“As Mays and Pope point out, researchers seek to provide an overview whereas respondents have individual concerns, and this can result in apparently discrepant accounts.20”
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“Checklists have played an important role in conferring respectability on qualitative research and in convincing potential sceptics of its thoroughness.1–3”
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“In practice, however, you are unlikely to obtain research funding without having carried out a thorough literature review or having formulated some idea of the content of the data you are likely to collect.”
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“Respondents' reactions to emerging findings can certainly help refine explanations—as can key informants'—but several commentators have questioned whether it is always appropriate.20,21”
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“Multiple coding concerns the same issue as the quantitative equivalent “inter-rater reliability” and is a response to the charge of subjectivity sometimes levelled at the process of qualitative data analysis.”
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“Purposive (or theoretical8) sampling, however, offers researchers a degree of control rather than being at the mercy of any selection bias inherent in pre-existing groups (such as clinic populations).”
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“Uncritical adoption of grounded theory can result in explanations tinged with the “near mysticism” that Melia derides in the original text on grounded theory.12”
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- Not checked yetcites [12] Glaser B Strauss A .The discovery of grounded theory. Chicago:Aldine,1967.
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“Respondent validation exercises, such as reading of drafts, make considerable demands on participants' time and, depending on the research topic and content of transcripts, can even be exploitative or distressing.23”
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- Not checked yetcites [23] Barbour RS .Engagement, representation and presentation in research practice. In: Barbour RS Huby G , eds. Meddling with mythology: AIDS and the social construction of knowledge. London:Routledge,1998:183–200.
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“Respondent validation can be particularly valuable in action research projects, where researchers work with participants on an ongoing basis to facilitate change.”
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“While I would caution against multiple coding of entire datasets (on the grounds of economy in both cost and effort), some element of multiple coding can be a valuable strategy.”
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“The greatest potential of multiple coding lies in its capacity to furnish alternative interpretations and thereby to act as the “devil's advocate” implied in many of the checklists1–3 in alerting researchers to all potentially competing explanations.”
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“This can be cosy but may lead to collusion: Atkinson has warned of the dangers of “romanticising” respondents' accounts.22”
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“However, the degree of concordance between researchers is not really important; what is ultimately of value is the content of disagreements and the insights that discussion can provide for refining coding frames.”
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“That would involve applying the constant comparative method11 to continuously compare the views and experiences of respondents who have been selected precisely—indeed, purposively—in order to illuminate subtle but potentially important differences.”
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- Not checked yetcites [11] Green, 1998, Commentary: grounded theory and the constant comparative method., BMJ
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“Some strategies claimed as examples of purposive sampling in effect involve hybrids, which retain elements of random or convenience sampling and which are unlikely to yield the spread of respondents required.”
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“In its purest form the grounded theory approach to data analysis alleges that all explanations or theories are derived from the dataset itself rather than from a researcher's prior theoretical viewpoint.12”
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- Not checked yetcites [12] Glaser B Strauss A .The discovery of grounded theory. Chicago:Aldine,1967.
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“Triangulation addresses the issue of internal validity by using more than one method of data collection to answer a research question.”
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“Such approaches do not use qualitative datasets to full advantage.”
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“Triangulation relies on the notion of a fixed point, or superior explanation, against which other interpretations can be measured.”
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“Reducing qualitative research to a list of technical procedures (such as purposive sampling, grounded theory, multiple coding, triangulation, and respondent validation) is overly prescriptive and results in “the tail wagging the dog””
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“Reducing qualitative research to a list of technical procedures, however extensive, is overly prescriptive and results in “the tail wagging the dog.””
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“As Mays and Pope conclude, comprehensiveness may be a more realistic goal for qualitative research than is internal validity.20”
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“Qualitative research, with its distinctive approach to harnessing the analytical potential of exceptions, allows a research question to be examined from various angles.”
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“It allows for such deviant cases to illuminate, by juxtaposition, those processes and relations that routinely come into play, thereby enabling “the exception to prove the rule.”9,10”
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- Not checked yetcites [9] Barbour, 1999, The case for combining qualitative and quantitative approaches in health services research., J Health Serv Res Policy source
- Not checked yetcites [10] Frankland J Bloor M .Some issues arising in the systematic analysis of focus group materials. In: Barbour RS Kitzinger J , eds. Developing focus group research: politics, theory and practice. London:Sage,1999:144–155. source
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“Respondents' reactions to emerging findings can certainly help refine explanations—as can key informants'—but several commentators have questioned whether it is always appropriate.20,21”
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“Technical fixes will achieve little unless they are embedded in a broader understanding of the rationale and assumptions behind qualitative research.”
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“They can strengthen the rigour of qualitative research only if they are embedded in a broad understanding of qualitative research design and data analysis.”
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“According to this approach, apparent contradictions (or exceptions) do not pose a threat to researchers' explanations; they merely provide further scope for refining theories.”
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“Although some of the technical fixes discussed here may seem appealing in the face of the dual imperatives of securing grant funding and publication, each has limitations.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Barbour, R. S.
- Affiliations
- University of Glasgow (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Barbour, Rosaline S
- Venue
- BMJ
- Publisher
- BMJ
- Published
- 2001-05-05
- Volume
- 322
- Issue
- 7294
- Pages
- 1115-1117
- ISSN
- 0007-1447 (ISSN-L)
- 0959-8138
- 1468-5833
- PMC
- PMC1120242
- OpenAlex
- W2081358848
- Semantic Scholar
- b3318d66069cc164ac085d15dc25cafac82c9d6b
- Cited by
- 2,613
- References
- 30
- Citations by year
- 2026: 87 · 2025: 74 · 2024: 93 · 2023: 101 · 2022: 120 · 2021: 136 · 2020: 182 · 2019: 200 · 2018: 173 · 2017: 177 · 2016: 170 · 2015: 171 · 2014: 156 · 2013: 131 · 2012: 101
- FWCI
- 190.03
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- europepmc.org
- Licence
- www.bmj.com/company/legal-information/terms-conditions/legal-information/tdm-licencepolicy (tdm)
- Locations
- BMJ (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Discovery Research Portal (University of Dundee) (publishedVersion)
- ENLIGHTEN (Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam) (acceptedVersion)
- 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 › Sociology and Political Science › Focus Groups and Qualitative Methods
- Keywords
- checklists, research methodology, purposive sampling, grounded theory, triangulation, qualitative research design, data analysis, health services research
- MeSH terms
- Health Services Research, Humans, Research Design, Sampling Studies, Reproducibility of Results
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