Data collection in qualitative research

Innovative Data Collection Strategies in Qualitative Research

This article provides an innovative meta-framework comprising strategies designed to guide qualitative data collection in the 21st century. We present a meta-framework comprising strategies for collecting data from interviews, focus groups, observations, and documents/material culture. We present a template for collecting nonverbal data during interviews and discuss the concept of debriefing th...

Qualitative Research: Data Collection, Analysis, and Management.

Language and Meaning: Data Collection In Qualitative Research

()ualitativc research is inquiry nimed at describing and clarifying human experience as it appears in people's lives. Researchers ming qualitative methods gather data that serve as evidence for their distilled descriptions. Qualitative data are gathered primarily in the form of spoken or written language rather than in the form of numbers. Possible data sources arc interviews with participants,...

Study design in qualitative research--2: Sampling and data collection strategies.

In two prior papers in our series on qualitative research [Frankel & Devers (2000a, 2000b) Qualitative research: a consumer's guide, Education for Health, 13, 113-123; Frankel & Devers (2000) Study design in qualitative research-1: developing research questions and assessing research needs, Education for Health, 13, 251-261], we examine two critical issues in qualitative research design: sampli...

Data Collection Methods in Health Services Research

M.N. Sarkies2,3; K.-A. Bowles3,7; E.H. Skinner4,8; D. Mitchell2,6; R. Haas3,7; M. Ho2; K. Salter2; K. May2; D. Markham2; L. O’Brien3,5; S. Plumb1; T.P. Haines3,7 1Melbourne Health, Allied Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; 2Monash Health, Allied Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 3Monash Health, Allied Health Research Unit, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; 4Monash University, Allied Hea...