PRO development: rigorous qualitative research as the crucial foundation

Promoting publication of rigorous qualitative research.

I n the basic sciences, investigators frequently conduct descriptive studies as a prelude to formulating and testing hypotheses. These discovery studies can be quite unbounded at the outset as investigators accumulate novel information that will serve as the building blocks for future studies. In the clinical sciences, descriptive studies are also common, but they are almost always based on dat...

engineering education as a foundation for development

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Qualitative research as methodical hermeneutics.

The proportion of publications of qualitative research in mainstream psychology journals is small. Thus, in terms of this important criterion, despite its recent rapid growth, qualitative research is marginalized in psychology. The author suggests that contributing to this situation is the lack of a coherent and unifying methodology of qualitative research methods that elucidates their credibil...

Focus Groups as Qualitative Research

The rocky road: qualitative research as evidence.