Qualitative description studies in healthcare and nursing-related fields often use flexible methods, but justification for their use is often limited.

Characteristics of Qualitative Descriptive Studies: A Systematic Review

Qualitative studies in influential medical journals, primarily BMJ, tend to have a single method of data collection, a median sample size of 36, and use constant comparative and grounded theory approaches for analysis.

Characteristics of qualitative studies in influential journals of general medicine: a critical review.

Qualitative research uses interviewing, focus groups, and observation methods to explore diverse perspectives and experiences, with data collection continuing until saturation is reached.

How to do qualitative research?

This article provides novice researchers with practical guidance on sampling, data collection, and analysis, focusing on flexible plans, consistent sampling strategies, and data saturation.

Series: Practical guidance to qualitative research. Part 3: Sampling, data collection and analysis

Qualitative research in public administration represents a small percentage of journal articles, uses a limited range of methodologies, and has inconsistencies in reporting methodological decisions.

Assessing Qualitative Studies in Public Administration Research

Qualitative research is an iterative process that improves understanding of a phenomenon by making new significant distinctions, bridging the gap between qualitative and quantitative research.

What is Qualitative in Qualitative Research

Qualitative studies alongside randomized controlled trials of complex healthcare interventions are uncommon and often poorly integrated with trial results, often having major methodological shortcomings.

Use of qualitative methods alongside randomised controlled trials of complex healthcare interventions: methodological study

Qualitative data analysis involves examining the data to understand its meaning, meaning, and implications, and identifying patterns and trends.

Qualitative data analysis

Qualitative research produces large amounts of textual data, and its systematic and rigorous preparation and analysis requires skill, vision, and integrity.

Analysing qualitative data

There is no single qualitative research paradigm, and establishing generic criteria for judging the quality of qualitative research studies is futile; instead, individual studies should be assessed using their own unique characteristics.

Validity, trustworthiness and rigour: quality and the idea of qualitative research.

Integrating qualitative and quantitative research in systematic reviews can provide valuable insights into barriers and facilitators of healthy eating among children aged 4-10 years.

Integrating qualitative research with trials in systematic reviews

QCA can effectively identify high-risk patients for hereditary colorectal cancer and improve patient follow-through after positive screenings.

Qualitative Comparative Analysis

Classic qualitative studies on drug use and drug users reveal that drug use is a complex social process shaped by complex factors and social contexts, challenging stereotypes and improving understanding of drug use and related harms.

Qualitative research

The ENTREQ framework helps researchers report the stages of searching, selecting, quality appraisal, and synthesising qualitative health research findings more transparently.

Enhancing transparency in reporting the synthesis of qualitative research: ENTREQ

Qualitative research in second language teaching and learning is a valuable tool for exploring complex questions, but it must be robust, well-informed, and thoroughly documented to ensure rigor and quality.

Good qualitative research

Qualitative research can be assessed using two broad criteria: validity and relevance, but the nature of knowledge produced by such methods remains a subject of debate.

Qualitative research in health care: Assessing quality in qualitative research

Topic models can improve qualitative studies by providing accurate quality metrics and identifying specific subtopics.

Topic modelling for qualitative studies

Qualitative data analysis in mathematics education can enhance research findings by utilizing a recursive analysis process.

Analyzing Qualitative Data in Mathematics Education

Qualitative studies in special education have made significant contributions to policy and practice, with quality indicators highlighting the importance of conducting and evaluating such research.

Qualitative Studies in Special Education

Qualitative health research has become more urgent due to the rise of evidence-based practice and the need to enhance its utility through diverse conceptualizations and skills.

Using Qualitative Research

These studies suggest that qualitative research in healthcare and other fields uses flexible and diverse methods, often faces challenges in justification and integration, and requires rigorous and skillful analysis to understand complex phenomena.