Metasynthesis, Qualitative synthesis
Handbook for Synthesizing Qualitative Research by Call Number: 610.72 SanISBN: 9780826156945Publication Date: 2007
A Guide to Qualitative Meta-Synthesis by
A Guide to Qualitative Meta-synthesis provides accessible guidelines for conducting all phases of theory-generating meta-synthesis research, including data collection, analysis, and theory generation. It is a research methodology that is designed to generate evidence-based theory by extracting, analyzing, and synthesizing qualitative findings from across published investigations. These theories provide scaffolding that can be used by health-care providers and other professionals to make context-based decisions and implement situation-specific actions. Theory-generating meta-synthesis methods stem from the qualitative research paradigm, especially grounded theory. Systematic and rigorous methods are used to identify topically related research reports that provide qualitative findings for analysis. The subsequent analysis of the data goes beyond merely reorganizing and recategorizing research findings. Newly synthesized concepts are developed, and the dynamic relationships among them are fully articulated. The validity of the resultant theory is ensured based on theoretical, methodological, and researcher triangulation; unbiased data collection and sampling strategies; inductive-deductive data analysis and synthesis strategies; and continuous reflexivity. Meta-synthesis-generated theories are highly important in environments where the use of normalized algorithms, guidelines, and protocols are on the rise. The types of theories discussed in this book will help service providers customize standardized tools so that the most effective evidence-based, yet individualized, interventions can be implemented.
Call Number: 610.721 FinISBN: 9780815380627Publication Date: 2018-03-01
Meta-Ethnography by
How can ethnographic studies be generalized, in contrast to concentrating on the individual case? Noblit and Hare propose a new method for synthesizing from qualitative studies: meta-ethnography. After citing the criteria to be used in comparing qualitative research projects, the authors define the ways these can then be aggregated to create more cogent syntheses of research. Using examples from numerous studies ranging from ethnographic work in educational settings to the Mead-Freeman controversy over Samoan youth, Meta-Ethnography offers useful procedural advice from both comparative and cumulative analyses of qualitative data. This provocative volume will be read with interest by researchers and students in qualitative research methods, ethnography, education, sociology, and anthropology. "After defining metaphor and synthesis, these authors provide a step-by-step program that will allow the researcher to show similarity (reciprocal translation), difference (refutation), or similarity at a higher level (lines or argument synthesis) among sample studies....Contain(s) valuable strategies at a seldom-used level of analysis." --Contemporary Sociology "The authors made an important contribution by reframing how we think of ethnography comparison in a way that is compatible with the new developments in interpretive ethnography. Meta-Ethnography is well worth consulting for the problem definition it offers." --The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease "This book had to be written and I am pleased it was. Someone needed to break the ice and offer a strategy for summarizing multiple ethnographic studies. Noblit and Hare have done a commendable job of giving the research community one approach for doing so. Further, no one else can now venture into this area of synthesizing qualitative studies without making references to and positioning themselves vis-a-vis this volume." -Educational Studies
Call Number: electronic access, or print in library: 300.722 NobISBN: 0803930232Publication Date: 1988
Kvalitativ metasyntese som forskningsmetode i medisin og helsefag by Call Number: 610.721 MalPublication Date: 2017
Synthesizing Qualitative Research by Call Number: 610.72 SynISBN: 9780470656389Publication Date: 2012
Articles
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- Ludvigsen, M. S., Hall, E. O., Meyer, G., Fegran, L., Aagaard, H. & Uhrenfeldt, L. (2016). Using Sandelowski and Barroso's Meta-Synthesis Method in Advancing Qualitative Evidence. Qual Health Res, 26(3), 320-329. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732315576493
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Barnett-Page, E. & Thomas, J. (2009). Methods for the synthesis of qualitative research: a critical review. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 9(1), 59. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-9-59
Berg, R. C. & Munthe-Kaas, H. (2013). Systematiske oversikter og kvalitativ forskning. Norsk Epidemiologi, 23(2) https://doi.org/10.5324/nje.v23i2.1634
Britten, N., Campbell, R., Pope, C., Donovan, J., Morgan, M. & Pill, R. (2002). Using meta ethnography to synthesise qualitative research: a worked example. Journal of Health Services Research and Policy, 7(4), 209-215. https://doi.org/10.1258/135581902320432732
Lockwood, C., Munn, Z. & Porritt, K. (2015). Qualitative research synthesis: methodological guidance for systematic reviewers utilizing meta-aggregation. JBI Evidence Implementation, 13(3). https://journals.lww.com/ijebh/fulltext/2015/09000/qualitative_research_synthesis__methodological.10.aspx
Munthe, E., Bergene, A. C., Braak, D. t., Furenes, M. I., Gilje, T. M., Keles, S., Ruud, E. & Wollscheid, S. (2022). Systematisk kunnskapsoppsummering utdanningssektoren. Norsk pedagogisk tidsskrift, 106(2), 131-144. https://doi.org/10.18261/npt.106.2.5
Ring, N., Jepson, R. & Ritchie, K. (2011). Methods of synthesizing qualitative research studies for health technology assessment. International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 27(4), 384-390. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266462311000389
Ring, N., Ritchie, K., Mandava, L. & Jepson, R. (2011). A guide to synthesising qualitative research for researchers undertaking health technology assessments and systematic reviews. NHS Quality Improvement Scotland. https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/9049753.pdf
Sandelowski, M., Docherty, S. & Emden, C. (1997). Qualitative metasynthesis: Issues and techniques. Research in Nursing and Health, 20(4), 365-371. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1098-240X(199708)20:4<365::AID-NUR9>3.0.CO;2-E
Sattar, R., Lawton, R., Panagioti, M. & Johnson, J. (2021). Meta-ethnography in healthcare research: a guide to using a meta-ethnographic approach for literature synthesis. BMC Health Services Research, 21(1), 50. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-020-06049-w
Thomas, J. & Harden, A. (2008). Methods for the thematic synthesis of qualitative research in systematic reviews. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 8(1), 45. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-8-45
Thorne, S. (2016). Metasynthetic Madness: What Kind of Monster Have We Created? Qualitative Health Research, 27(1), 3-12. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732316679370
Thorne, S. (2022). Qualitative meta-synthesis. Nurse Author and Editor, 32(1), 15-18. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/nae2.12036
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