Qualitative data analysis - Correspondence to Kate Seers RCN
Research Institute, School of Health & Social Studies,
University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, Warwick, UK; Good
qualitative research uses a systematic and rigorous approach
that aims to answer questions concerned with what something is
like (such as a patient experience), what people think or feel
about something that has happened, and it may address why
something has happened as it has. Qualitative data often takes
the form of words or text and can include images. Qualitative
research covers a very broad range of philosophical
underpinnings and methodological approaches. Each has its own
particular way of approaching all stages of the research
process, including analysis, and has its own terms and
techniques, but there are some common threads that run across
most of these approaches. This Research Made Simple piece will
focus on some of these common threads in the analysis of
qualitative research. So you have collected all your qualitative
data