The Qualitative Descriptive Approach in International Comparative Studies: Using Online Qualitative Surveys.
The Qualitative Descriptive Approach in International Comparative Studies: Using Online Qualitative Surveys.
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DOI：
10.15171/ijhpm.2017.142
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发表时间：
2018-09-01
影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
Mitton C
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文献类型：
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作者：
Seixas BV;Smith N;Mitton C
国际比较研究对公共政策研究作出了非常有价值的贡献。分析不同的政策设计不仅提供了了解这一现象本身的手段，而且还为我们提供了如何改进现有做法的深刻线索。虽然在这一领域开展的大部分工作依赖于对国际数据库所载数据或从机构网站收集的数据的定量评估，但由于缺乏可靠的数据库、信息来源稀少或分散等原因，无数主题可能根本无法使用这种方法设计进行研究。在这里，我们将讨论定性描述方法作为一种方法工具的使用，以获取有关如何构建策略的数据。我们建议对每个相关国家的主要利益相关者进行在线定性调查，以便检索有关如何在那里执行某项公共政策的基本信息。从桑德洛斯基关于定性描述性研究的开创性论文开始，我们对当前的方法论命题进行了理论反思。我们认为，从事这种努力的研究人员的行为就像一个合成素描艺术家，从目击者那里收集信息，以便描绘出对现实的有效描述。此外，我们在此背景下讨论了涉及采样，数据收集和数据分析的最相关方面。总的来说，这种方法设计具有很大的潜力，可以使研究人员将公共政策的国际分析扩展到迄今为止很少从这一角度进行评估的主题。
International comparative studies constitute a highly valuable contribution to public policy research. Analysing different policy designs offers not only a mean of knowing the phenomenon itself but also gives us insightful clues on how to improve existing practices. Although much of the work carried out in this realm relies on quantitative appraisal of the data contained in international databases or collected from institutional websites, countless topics may simply not be studied using this type of methodological design due to, for instance, the lack of reliable databases, sparse or diffuse sources of information, etc. Here then we discuss the use of the qualitative descriptive approach as a methodological tool to obtain data on how policies are structured. We propose the use of online qualitative surveys with key stakeholders from each relevant national context in order to retrieve the fundamental pieces of information on how a certain public policy is addressed there. Starting from Sandelowski’s seminal paper on qualitative descriptive studies, we conduct a theoretical reflection on the current methodological proposition. We argue that a researcher engaged in this endeavour acts like a composite-sketch artist collecting pieces of information from witnesses in order to draw a valid depiction of reality. Furthermore, we discuss the most relevant aspects involving sampling, data collection and data analysis in this context. Overall, this methodological design has a great potential for allowing researchers to expand the international analysis of public policies to topics hitherto little appraised from this perspective.
影响因子：
2
作者：
Sandelowski, Margarete
通讯作者：
Sandelowski, Margarete
影响因子：
3.2
作者：
Morgan, D L
通讯作者：
Morgan, D L
影响因子：
2
作者：
Sandelowski, M
通讯作者：
Sandelowski, M