时间和变化:在定性纵向研究中展示研究成果的类型学
Åsa Audulv1, Thomas Westergren2,3, Mette Spliid Ludvigsen4,5
1Department of Nursing, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden. asa.audulv@umu.se.
BMC medical research methodology
|December 6, 2023
概括
这项研究引入了一种新的类型,用于呈现定性纵向研究 (QLR) 的发现. 它提供了三种类型和七种子类型,以帮助健康研究人员有效地将时间和变化整合到他们的研究结果中.
科学领域:
- 卫生研究方法论 卫生研究方法论
- 定性研究方法 定性研究方法
背景情况:
- 定性纵向研究 (QLR) 是健康研究中的新兴方法.
- 现有的QLR文献强调研究随着时间的推移而发生的变化,但经验研究往往缺乏对时间分析的明确描述,并且在时间/变化方面的重点上有所不同.
- 这种不一致性源于QLR发现的方法指南中的限制.
研究的目的:
- 开发和描述一种用于整合时间和/或改变定性纵向研究结果的替代方法的类型学.
- 提供一个框架,解决QLR研究中时间和变化呈现方式的不一致性.
- 帮助研究人员做出明智的决策,介绍他们的QLR结果.
主要方法:
- 采用了适应的范围审查设计.
- 使用EBSCOhost.host进行了对相关文章的全面搜索.
- 通过使用内容分析原则,分析了299篇关于健康的定性纵向研究文章的方法和结果部分.
主要成果:
- 构建了一个类型,包括三个主要类型和七个子类型,用于呈现QLR发现的时间/变化.
- 这些类型根据时间/变化呈现的结构原则进行分类:类型A (低纵向数据利用),类型B (时间结构) 和类型C (关注变化).
- 这些类型的区别在于它们的重点是时间/变化,解释深度的程度,以及与时间/变化相关的理论概念的表达.
结论:
- 本研究提出了第一个连贯和全面的类型学,用于将时间/变化整合到健康研究中的QLR发现中.
- 开发的类型学提供了不同的子类型,为研究人员提供了成果展示的具体例子.
- 这一框架使研究人员能够根据他们的具体研究目标和意图做出明智的选择.
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