The methods literature regarding sampling in qualitative research is characterized by important inconsistencies and ambiguities, which can be problematic for students and researchers seeking a clear and coherent understanding. In this article we present insights about sampling in qualitative research derived from a systematic methods overview we conducted of the literature from three research t...

BACKGROUND Guidelines for Spanish university curricula include the descriptor Quantitative and Qualitative Methods, but the latter are still poorly represented. METHOD To inform the argument for phenomenological methods, the last 20-year interval of ISI databases has been content-analyzed with the following codes: discourse analysis, grounded theory, narrative analysis, phenomenological analy...

This qualitative phenomenological research was carried out in order to understand how women experience living with advance gynecological cancer. We chose to make a qualitative survey in a phenomenological approach, based on the following directive question: "I'd like you to tell me your experience: 'How is it to be a woman with gynecological cancer?" ' Six women were interviewed. The ontologica...

Aim: This study explores nurses’ experiences of caring for (potentially) brain-dead patients. Design: A qualitative interpretative phenomenological design was chosen to describe the phenomenon in all its complexity and dimensions. Methods: In 2016, twelve episodic interviews were conducted with intensive care nurses from six wards. The related their patients analyzed according Benner&#821...