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Basic Questions for Critiquing Title & Introduction in Qualitative Reports

Title

Was the title a good one, suggesting the key phenomenon

Introduction Statement of the problem

Basic Questions for Critiquing Methods in Qualitative Reports

Methods Protection of participants' rights

Were appropriate procedures used to safeguard the rights of study

and the group or

participants?

community under

Was the study

study?

subject to external review?

Is the problem

Was the study

stated

designed to

unambiguously

minimize risks and

and is it easy to

maximize benefits

identify?

to participants?

Does the problem statement build a

Research

Is the identified

cogent and

design and

research tradition

persuasive

research

(if any) congruent

argument for the

tradition

with the methods

new study?

used to collect and

Does the problem

analyze data?

have significance

Was an adequate

for nursing?

amount of time

Is there a good

spent in the field or

match between

with study

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participants?

problem on the

Did the design

one hand and the

unfold in the field,

paradigm,

giving researchers

tradition, and

opportunities to

methods on the

capitalize on early

other?

understandings?

Research

Are research

questions

questions

Was there evidence of reflexivity in the

explicitly stated?

design?

If not, is their

Was there an

absence justified?

adequate number

Are the questions

of contacts with

consistent with the

study participants?

study's philosophical

Sample and

Was the group or

basis, underlying

setting

population of

tradition,

interest adequately

conceptual

described?

framework, or

Were the setting

ideological

and sample

orientation?

described in

Literature

Does the report

review

adequately summarize the existing body of knowledge related to the problem or phenomenon of interest? Does the literature review provide a solid basis for the new study?

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the research

sufficient detail? Was the approach used to gain access to the site or to recruit participants appropriate? Was the best possible method of sampling used to enhance information richness and

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richness and

Are key concepts

address the needs

underpinnings

adequately

of the study?

defined

Was the sample

conceptually?

size adequate?

Is the

Was saturation

philosophical

achieved?

basis, underlying tradition, conceptual

Data

Were the methods

collection

of gathering data

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Conceptual

appropriate?

framework, or

Were data

ideological

gathered through

orientation made

two or more

explicit and is it

methods to

appropriate for the

achieve

problem?

triangulation? Did the researcher Basic Questions for Critiquing Results in Qualitative Reports

ask the right questions or make the right

Results Data analysis

Were the data

observations, and

management (e.g.,

were they recorded

coding) and data

in an appropriate

analysis methods

fashion?

sufficiently

Was a sufficient

described?

amount of data

Was the data analysis

gathered?

strategy compatible

Was the data of

with the research

sufficient depth

tradition and with the

and richness?

nature and type of

Procedures

Were data

data gathered?

collection and

Did the analysis yield

recording

an appropriate

procedures

"product" (e.g., a

adequately

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described and do

thematic pattern,

they appear

etc.)?

appropriate?

Did the analytic

Was data collected

procedures suggest

in a manner that

the possibility of

minimized bias or

biases?

behavioral

Were the findings

distortions?

effectively

Were the staff who

summarized, with

collected data

good use of excerpts

appropriately

and supporting

trained?

arguments?

Enhancement

Were methods

Do the temes

of rigor

used to enhance

adequately capture

the trustworthiness

the meaning of the

of the data (and

data?

analysis), and was

Does it appear that

the description of

the research

those methods

satisfactorily

adequate?

conceptualized the

Were the methods

themes or patterns in

used to enhance

the data?

credibility

Did the analysis yield

appropriate and

an insightful,

sufficient?

provocative, and

Did the researcher

meaningful picture of

document research

the phenomenon

procedures and

under investigation?

decision processes

Theoretical

Are the themes or

sufficiently that

integration

patterns logically

findings are

connected to each

auditable and

other to form a

confirmable?

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integrated whole? Were the figures,

Basic Questions for Critiquing Global Issues in Qualitative Reports

maps, or models

Was the report

used effectively to

well written, well organized, and

conceptualizations?

sufficiently detailed

If a conceptual framework or ideological orientation guided the study, are

for critical Global Issues Presentation

analysis? Were the

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summarize

descriptions of the

the themes or

methods, findings,

patterns linked to it in

and interpretations

a cogent manner?

sufficiently rich and vivid?

Basic Questions for Critiquing Discussion in Qualitative Reports

Do the researchers' clinical,

Discussion Interpretation of the findings

substantive, or

Are the findings

Researcher(s)

interpreted

credibility

methodological qualifications and

within an

experience

appropriate

enhance

frame of

confidence in the

reference?

findings and their

Are major

interpretation?

findings

Do the study

interpreted

findings appear to

and discussed

be trustworthy and

within the

do you have

context of

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meaningful

study's

evidence that can

limitations?

be used in nursing

Does the

practice or that is

report address

useful to the

the issue of

nursing discipline?

the transferability of the

Reference

findings?

Polit, D.F., & Beck, C.T. (2008). Nursing

Implications and

Do the

research: Generating and assessing

recommendations

researchers

evidence for nursing practice. St. Louis:

discuss the

Lippincott, Williams, & Wilkins.

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implications of the study for clinical practice or further inquiry, and are those implications reasonable and complete?

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