For example, one Australian study addressed the issue of why patients from Aboriginal communities often present late or not at all to specialist services offered by tertiary care hospitals. Using qualitative in addition to quantitative designs will equip us with better tools to address a greater range of research problems, and to fill in blind spots in current neurological research and practice.īecause some research questions cannot be answered using (only) quantitative methods. Criteria such as checklists, reflexivity, sampling strategies, piloting, co-coding, member-checking and stakeholder involvement can be used to enhance and assess the quality of the research conducted. For data analysis, field-notes and audio-recordings are transcribed into protocols and transcripts, and coded using qualitative data management software.
The most common methods of data collection are document study, (non-) participant observations, semi-structured interviews and focus groups. Qualitative research can be defined as the study of the nature of phenomena and is especially appropriate for answering questions of why something is (not) observed, assessing complex multi-component interventions, and focussing on intervention improvement. This paper aims to provide an overview of the use and assessment of qualitative research methods in the health sciences.
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