Handbook for Synthesizing Qualitative Research - Softcover

Sandelewski, Margarete; Barroso, Julie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826156940 ISBN 13: 9780826156945

Publisher: Springer Publishing, 2007

Synopsis

Designated a Doody's Core Title! Written for graduate-level students and faculty in health care science disciplines, this handbook will help you integrate the findings in reports of primary qualitative studies as well as extrapolate the methods and techniques used to create a qualitative research synthesis. Using reports of studies in two domains of research and across behavior, social science, and practice disciplines, this handbook will help you: * Locate qualitative research synthesis in qualitative research, research synthesis, research utilization, and evidence-based practice * Locate the qualitative research synthesis enterprise in reading and writing practices * Differentiate qualitative research synthesis from other forms of inquiry * Formulate significant research problems and purposes for a qualitative research synthesis study * Design credible qualitative research synthesis studies that fit available resources * Conduct comprehensive searches for primary qualitative research reports in a target domain of inquiry * Conduct judicious appraisals of these qualitative research reports * Compare and classify findings across qualitative research reports * Select methodological approaches appropriate to the content and form of the qualitative research findings * Use qualitative metasummary and metasynthesis techniques to integrate qualitative research findings * Optimize the validity of qualitative research synthesis studies * Present the results of qualitative research synthesis studies in effective, audience-appropriate ways Supplemental materials that illustrate the transformation of research findings into research syntheses in Chapters 3, 4, 6, and 9 are available online at: www.unc.edu/~msandelo/handbook

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About the Author

Julie Barroso is Associate Professor & Director of the Adult Nurse Practitioner Program at Duke University School of Nursing, and co-principal investigator of the Qualitative Metasynthesis Project. She is also a senior research fellow with the Health Inequalities Program (part of the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University) and served as chair of the Research Committee, part of the National Leadership Council for the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care. Her practice, research, and teaching have focused on people with HIV infection. Dr. Barroso has conducted both qualitative and quantitative research in this area, including a metasynthesis of studies with HIV-positive men, study of physiological and psychological correlates of fatigue, a psychometric study of the HIV-Related Fatigue Scale, and a secondary analysis of a 12-year longitudinal data set to examine the relationship between fatigue and depression in HIV-positive gay men. She is currently principal investigator of a National Institute of Nursing Research longitudinal study of physiological, psychosocial, and personal factors in the development of HIV-related fatigue. Dr. Barroso maintains a practice at the Duke University AIDS Research and Treatment Center.

From the Back Cover

"Designated a Doody's Core Title!

Written for graduate-level students and faculty in health care science disciplines, this handbook will help you integrate the findings in reports of primary qualitative studies as well as extrapolate the methods and techniques used to create a qualitative research synthesis.

Using reports of studies in two domains of research and across behavior, social science, and practice disciplines, this handbook will help you: Locate qualitative research synthesis in qualitative research, research synthesis, research utilization, and evidence-based practice Locate the qualitative research synthesis enterprise in reading and writing practices Differentiate qualitative research synthesis from other forms of inquiry Formulate significant research problems and purposes for a qualitative research synthesis study Design credible qualitative research synthesis studies that fit available resources Conduct comprehensive searches for primary qualitative research reports in a target domain of inquiry Conduct judicious appraisals of these qualitative research reports Compare and classify findings across qualitative research reports Select methodological approaches appropriate to the content and form of the qualitative research findings Use qualitative metasummary and metasynthesis techniques to integrate qualitative research findings Optimize the validity of qualitative research synthesis studies Present the results of qualitative research synthesis studies in effective, audience-appropriate ways "

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer Publishing
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0826156940
• ISBN 13: 9780826156945
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 275