Qualitative Research: Data Collection, Analysis, and Management

Qualitative Research: Data Collection, Analysis, and Management.

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...

Data collection and management for research studies.

All research studies, be they randomised clinical trials or epidemiological or observational studies, require appropriate, accurate, and complete data. The most important step in research (not covered in this paper), is study design. Unless there has been careful definition of the hypothesis to be tested, outcomes to be measured, and calculation of required sample size, time and resources will ...

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,...

Data management and security in qualitative research.

Qualitative research provides rich data on phenomena important to nursing and may offer in-depth information for critical care nurses in providing care to their patients. Data management, which encompasses topics such as human subjects' protection, confidentiality, data storage and record keeping, data ownership, and data sharing, is a critical process in qualitative research that deserves rese...