Lecture 3 - Using Quantiative And Qualitative Data To Answer Research Questions

Question 1

What are the terms used in qualitative research instead of validity and reliability?

Answer 1

• Credibility - are the participants and setting accurately described?

• Transferability - would the results be applicable to other settings/researchers?

• Dependability - sometimes a second set of questions is adapted and dependent on the first

• Confirmability - are the findings reliable and representative, could they be confirmed/repeated?

Question 2

What is theorising?

Answer 2

A cognitive process of discovering abstract categories and interrelationships

Question 3

What is theory?

Answer 3

An explanation of an aspect of practice that enables inferences about future happenings

Question 4

How can the aspects of trustworthiness be confirmed?

Answer 4

Providing evidence of:

• Engagement with participants/stakeholders

• Clarifying, exploring, acknowledging and dressing researcher boas

• Keeping an audit trail of all research steps and analytical approaches and interpretations

• Peer debriefer

Question 5

Describe the hierarchy of evidence in order

Answer 5

• Opinion

• Case report

• Cell culture study

• Pre-clinical animal model study

• Mechanistic study

• Case control study

• Cohort study

• Randomised controlled trial

• Systemic review and meta-analysis