0277-9536/$ – see front matter 2009 Elsevier Ltd. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.09.011 I read the article ‘‘A meta-synthesis of pregnant women’s decision-making processeswith regard to antenatal screening for Down syndrome’’ by Reid, Sinclair, Barr, Dobbs, and Crealey (2009) with great interest for three reasons. Firstly, it promised to draw together qualitative research concerned with pregnant ...

OBJECTIVES We aimed to explore healthcare professionals' experience of treating chronic non-malignant pain by conducting a qualitative evidence synthesis. Understanding this experience from the perspective of healthcare professionals will contribute to improvements in the provision of care. DESIGN Qualitative evidence synthesis using meta-ethnography. We searched five electronic bibliographic...

AIM To explore barriers and facilitators to smoking cessation experienced by women during pregnancy and postpartum by undertaking a synthesis of qualitative studies. BACKGROUND The majority of pregnant women are aware that smoking in pregnancy compromises maternal and infant health. Despite this knowledge, quit rates among pregnant women remain low, particularly among women in disadvantaged c...

In this paper I will show the profound influence the evidence-based practice movement has on the use of qualitative research findings in health care, and in nursing in particular. I will argue that it has become difficult if not impossible to base practice on qualitative research within this way of thinking knowledge. Hence the qualitative research community needs to develop methods that will m...

BACKGROUND To our knowledge, there has never been a systematic review and synthesis of the qualitative literature on the trajectory and aetiology of nonmedical anabolic-androgenic steroid (AAS) use. METHODS We systematically reviewed and synthesized qualitative literature gathered from searches in PsycINFO, PubMed, ISI Web of Science, Google Scholar, and reference lists of relevant literature...

BACKGROUND Understanding peoples' responses to and ability to incorporate technology for managing long-term conditions into their everyday lives is relevant for informing the development and implementation of new technologies as part of future long-term condition management in domestic environments. Future research and theory building can be facilitated by the synthesis of existing qualitative ...

The use of video has become commonplace in education today. Educators are engaging students with communication technology more frequently than ever before, given COVID-19. However, questions remain on how instructors as a and teaching tool online blended courses. purpose this literature review was to synthesize research the A systematic approach used identify 64 peer-reviewed studies published ...