Reliability assessments in qualitative health promotion research
Reliability assessments in qualitative health promotion research
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DOI：
10.1093/heapro/dar027
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发表时间：
2012-03-01
影响因子：
2.7
通讯作者：
Cook, Kay E.
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作者：
Cook, Kay E.
这篇文章有助于在一般的定性研究，特别是健康促进研究中使用的可靠性评估的辩论。在这篇文章中，我检查使用的可靠性评估在定性健康促进研究中，健康促进研究人员普遍持有的误解，可靠性评估提高了定性研究的严谨性。对2003年至2009年发表在《国际健康促进》杂志上的所有采用可靠性评估的定性文章进行了检查。总共有31.3篇（20/64）文章采用了某种形式的可靠性评估。在研究期间，可靠性评估的使用有所增加，从2003/2004年的20篇增加到2008/2009年的50篇及以上，而与此同时，定性文章的总数有所减少。然后将文章分为四种类型的信度评估，包括主题代码的验证，使用评分者间的信度统计，团队编码的一致性和跨站点编码的一致性。讨论了每种类型的优点，随后的讨论侧重于可靠的专题编码的演绎性质、可立即核实的数据的深度有限以及这种研究对促进健康和提高质量范式的有用性。
This article contributes to the debate about the use of reliability assessments in qualitative research in general, and health promotion research in particular. In this article, I examine the use of reliability assessments in qualitative health promotion research in response to health promotion researchers' commonly held misconception that reliability assessments improve the rigor of qualitative research. All qualitative articles published in the journal Health Promotion International from 2003 to 2009 employing reliability assessments were examined. In total, 31.3 (20/64) articles employed some form of reliability assessment. The use of reliability assessments increased over the study period, ranging from 20 in 2003/2004 to 50 and above in 2008/2009, while at the same time the total number of qualitative articles decreased. The articles were then classified into four types of reliability assessments, including the verification of thematic codes, the use of inter-rater reliability statistics, congruence in team coding and congruence in coding across sites. The merits of each type were discussed, with the subsequent discussion focusing on the deductive nature of reliable thematic coding, the limited depth of immediately verifiable data and the usefulness of such studies to health promotion and the advancement of the qualitative paradigm.