Meta-Study of Qualitative Health Research: A Practical Guide to Meta-Analysis and Meta-Synthesis: 3 (Methods in Nursing Research) - Softcover

Thorne, Sally E.; Canam, Connie; Jillings, Carol

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761924159 ISBN 13: 9780761924159

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2001

Synopsis

"This book is a superior achievement from a group of masterful scholars. The book shows the theoretical, ethical, and political complexity of qualitative study, and yet offers an illuminating and useful guide to how it can be accomplished with distinction. I highly recommend it."

―MARGARETE SANDELOWSKI, PhD, RN, FAAN

Professor, School of Nursing

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

In this book, Volume 3 of the Methods in Nursing Research series, Barbara Paterson and colleagues provide step-by-step directions for how to proceed in conducting a meta-study, as well as recommendations for tools and standards relating to the application of their approach. Drawing from their experience with meta-study research projects on chronic illness, the authors articulate and theorize the meta-analysis and meta-synthesis of qualitatively derived knowledge.

 

About this title

About the Authors

Sally Thorne, RN, PhD, FAAN, FCAHS, is a Professor and former Director of the School of Nursing at the University of British Columbia, where she currently also holds the position of Associate Dean of Applied Science. She has a longstanding research program in the field of patient experience and relational practice in chronic illness and cancer care in addition to a body of scholarly work in the philosophy of science, the nature of evidence, and applied qualitative methodology. She is author of four books, including a popular qualitative research text on Interpretive Description. She has an extensive record of peer reviewed journal publications and has presented her work internationally as invited scholar, keynote lecturer and distinguished professor. She is Editor-in-Chief of the scholarly journal Nursing Inquiry and Associate Editor for Qualitative Health Research. She has served terms as Board Director for numerous organizations, including the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, Canadian Partnership Against Cancer, Canadian Association of Nurses in Oncology, the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, and the Association of Registered Nurses of British Columbia, and is a Fellow of both the American Academy of Nursing and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.

ducational Background

    BN, Dalhousie University
    MSN, University of British Columbia
    PhD, University of Victoria

Service

    Member, Interprofessional Education Curriculum Committee
    Faculty Affilliate, Human Early Learning Partnership
    Board Member, BC Council For Families

From the Back Cover

Meta-study is an exciting new opportunity for the analysis and synthesis of qualitative research findings. Over the last two decades, a wide range of methods and approaches originating from the social and health sciences have provided a wealth of new knowledge sources from which to develop theory.

This book provides step-by-step directions for how to conduct a meta-study, as well as recommendations for tools and standards for the application of this approach.

Meta-study entails an exhaustive analysis of the theory, method, and findings of research in a substantive area. These analytic processes form the foundation upon which a credible synthesis of new knowledge can be explored. Meta-study permits investigators to:

{ look beyond individual findings

{ critically interpret variations and contradictions in the body of available research

{ move toward the potential for knowledge synthesis

The authors of this timely volume:

{ differentiate between meta-analysis and meta-synthesis

{ write in a how-to style

{ illustrate each step with examples from their own meta-study projects in the substantive field of chronic illness

{ use their own experience with performing a meta-study to explain the process, including past mistakes and retrospective insight

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0761924159
• ISBN 13: 9780761924159
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176
• Editor: Paterson Barbara L.