🚨🔍🧩 Small sample, absence of saturation or specialized software: should we doubt the rigor of a qualitative study? This article scrutinizes ten common misconceptions and provides guidelines for better reading, writing, and evaluating this research. 📒 Qualitative methods: ten misconceptions for better evaluating research ✍️ Andrea L. Nevedal, Christine P. Kowalski, Erin P. Finley, Gemmae M. Fix, Alison B. Hamilton, Christopher J. Koenig (p. 1). Affiliations: research centers of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and American universities - Implementation Science (BMC), vol. 21, article 4 Optimizing qualitative methods in implementation research: a resource for editors, reviewers, authors, and researchers to dispel ten common misperceptions about qualitative research methods Audio Capsules of Health Practices 🎙️🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Jfj2wvdqXI Analysis of Health Practices and link to the source ℹ️➕ https://www.pratiquesensante.com/blog/pratiques-15/methodes-qualitatives-dix-idees-recues-pour-mieux-evaluer-les-recherches-6294 📌 This article helps to better appreciate the rigor of a qualitative study without limiting itself to criteria such as sample size, saturation, or the use of specialized software. Aimed at researchers, authors, editors, and reviewers, it examines ten misconceptions and provides advice for justifying methodological choices and evaluating their coherence with the research question. Two tables and an infographic facilitate consultation (p. 3-9). For professionals in prevention and the medico-social field, these guidelines can also illuminate the reading of a study or a qualitative evaluation report: this use constitutes a proposal by Health Practices, and not a use directly developed in the article #️⃣ #healthpractices #QualitativeResearch #ImplementationScience #QualitativeEvaluation #Transferability #MixedMethods #RapidQualitativeAnalysis #MethodologicalRigor #pratiquesensante #RechercheQualitative #ScienceDeLaMiseEnOeuvre #ÉvaluationQualitative #Transférabilité #MéthodesMixtes #AnalyseQualitativeRapide #RigueurMéthodologique (translated)
