Whatever happened to qualitative description?
Whatever happened to qualitative description?
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DOI：
10.1002/1098-240x(200008)23:4
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发表时间：
2000-08-01
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2
通讯作者：
Sandelowski, M
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作者：
Sandelowski, M
一般认为描述性研究是一种较低层次的调查形式，这影响了一些进行定性研究的研究人员声称他们实际上没有使用的方法，而不是声称他们正在使用的方法：即定性描述。定性描述性研究以事件的日常术语对事件进行全面总结为标志。进行定性描述性研究的研究人员接近他们的数据，接近词语和事件的表面。定性描述性设计通常是抽样、数据收集、分析和重新呈现技术的折衷但合理的组合。当需要对现象进行直接描述时，定性描述研究是首选的方法。(C)John Wiley & Sons，Inc.
The general view of descriptive research as a lower level form of inquiry has influenced some researchers conducting qualitative research to claim methods they are really not using and not to claim the method they are using: namely qualitative description. Qualitative descriptive studies have as their seal a comprehensive summary of events in the everyday terms of those events. Researchers conducting qualitative descriptive studies stay close to their data and to the surface of words and events. Qualitative descriptive designs typically are an eclectic but reasonable combination of sampling, and data collection, analysis, and re-presentation techniques. Qualitative descriptive study is the method of choice when straight descriptions of phenomena are desired. (C) 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.