The variety of qualitative research .1. Introduction to the problem
The variety of qualitative research .1. Introduction to the problem
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DOI：
10.1016/s0260-6917(97)80136-0
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发表时间：
1997-06-01
影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
Ashworth, PD
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作者：
Ashworth, PD
由于一些原因，定性技术已经在护理研究中扎根，并且在护理教育者进行的研究中越来越重要。但是，关于定性研究所产生的数据的性质、处理这些数据的方式以及这些数据的用途，人们存在着很大的困惑，这种困惑往往是由于未能区分定性数据的几种取向。实证研究可能会使用定性数据（一些不总是认识到）。它的前提是，有一些潜在的，真实的，明确的现实，和一个理论，涵盖这是由研究寻求。必须有有效性的证据--在数据与它们应该揭示的现实之间相匹配的意义上。非实证主义的研究有很多种，尽管经常被视为统一的。这些问题将在本文的第二部分中讨论。
For a number of reasons qualitative techniques have taken firm root in nursing research generally and are of growing importance in research undertaken by nurse educators. But there is a great deal of confusion about the nature of the data which ave produced by qualitative research, the way such data must be handled, and the use to which such data can be put.The confusion often results from a failure to differentiate between several orientations to qualitative data. Positivist research may use qualitative data (something not always recognized). It presupposes that there is some underlying, true, unequivocal reality, and a theory covering this is to be sought by the research. There must be evidence of validity - in the sense of a match between the data and the reality they are supposed to reveal. Non-positivist research is of a number of kinds, despite often being treated as unified. These will be treated in the second part of this paper.