Evidence-Based Practice / Unit 7 EBP 0957 worked example, 60 to 90 seconds
Appraising a Qualitative Study
The idea
The technique: identify the tradition, check that the approach and its vocabulary fit the stated purpose, then ask whether the results are trustworthy, what they are, and whether they help these patients — judging sampling by purpose and saturation, analysis by whether it is described, and findings by whether the quotations carry them.
In practice
A phenomenological study of a clinical experience. Tradition identified from its method, not its title. Purpose and approach consistent. Participants chosen for having lived the experience; saturation described rather than asserted. Analysis procedures given, including when sampling stopped. Quotations fitting their claims. Meanings placed in context. Findings relevant to comparable patients. Kept.
Where people slip
Appraise the study the tradition it belongs to, not the one you know best. Most failures in appraising this work are failures to identify what is being appraised.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
- 0906Trustworthiness
- 0907Separating Wheat From Chaff
- 0908Know the Diversity Before Appraising
- 0929Traditions Vary Internally
- 0931Are the Results Trustworthy and Credible?
- 0932How Participants Were Chosen
- 0934Does the Approach Fit the Purpose?
- 0935Are Data Collection Procedures Clear?
- 0936Are Analysis Procedures Described?
- 0937Are the Findings Well Presented?
- 0939The Effect on the Reader
- 0941Will the Results Help My Patients?
- 0942No Study Contains Everything
Unlocks
- Nothing yet depends on this.
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