Using qualitative metasummary to synthesize qualitative and quantitative descriptive findings

Comparison of a Qualitative and Quantitative Descriptive Study: Diabetes Management

The Qualitative Descriptive Approach in International Comparative Studies: Using Online Qualitative Surveys

International comparative studies constitute a highly valuable contribution to public policy research. Analysing different policy designs offers not only a mean of knowing the phenomenon itself but also gives us insightful clues on how to improve existing practices. Although much of the work carried out in this realm relies on quantitative appraisal of the data contained in international databa...

From Quantitative to Qualitative Spaces

Based on previous work, we present our position statement encompassing two mutually complementary topics. The first topic pertains to the ontological grounding of quantitatively specified synthetic environment data. Here, the objective is to generate a qualitative spatial description of a quantitatively modelled (e.g., using primitive geometric features) synthetic environment. The basic aim her...

Metasynthesis: An Original Method to Synthesize Qualitative Literature in Psychiatry

Background Metasynthesis-the systematic review and integration of findings from qualitative studies-is an emerging technique in medical research that can use many different methods. Nevertheless, the method must be appropriate to the specific scientific field in which it is used. The objective is to describe the steps of a metasynthesis method adapted from Thematic Synthesis and phenomenology t...

Qualitative and Quantitative Measures

Online social networks are rapidly asserting themselves as popular services on the Web. A central point is to determine whether two distinct users can be considered similar, a crucial concept with interesting consequences on the possibility to accomplish targeted actions like, for example, political and social aggregations or commercial promotions. In this chapter, the authors propose an approa...