Meta-Study of Qualitative Health Research: A Practical Guide to Meta-Analysis and Meta-Synthesis - Couverture souple

Thorne, Sally E.; Canam, Connie; Jillings, Carol

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0761924159 ISBN 13 : 9780761924159

Editeur : SAGE Publications, Inc, 2001

Synopsis

"This book is a superior achievement from a group of masterful scholars. The book shows the theoretical, ethical, and political complexity of qualitative study, and yet offers an illuminating and useful guide to how it can be accomplished with distinction. I highly recommend it."

—MARGARETE SANDELOWSKI, PhD, RN, FAAN

Professor, School of Nursing

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

In this book, Volume 3 of the Methods in Nursing Research series, Barbara Paterson and colleagues provide step-by-step directions for how to proceed in conducting a meta-study, as well as recommendations for tools and standards relating to the application of their approach. Drawing from their experience with meta-study research projects on chronic illness, the authors articulate and theorize the meta-analysis and meta-synthesis of qualitatively derived knowledge.

 

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

ducational Background

BN, Dalhousie University
MSN, University of British Columbia
PhD, University of Victoria

Service

Member, Interprofessional Education Curriculum Committee
Faculty Affilliate, Human Early Learning Partnership
Board Member, BC Council For Families

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Meta-study is an exciting new opportunity for the analysis and synthesis of qualitative research findings. Over the last two decades, a wide range of methods and approaches originating from the social and health sciences have provided a wealth of new knowledge sources from which to develop theory.

This book provides step-by-step directions for how to conduct a meta-study, as well as recommendations for tools and standards for the application of this approach.

Meta-study entails an exhaustive analysis of the theory, method, and findings of research in a substantive area. These analytic processes form the foundation upon which a credible synthesis of new knowledge can be explored. Meta-study permits investigators to:

{ look beyond individual findings

{ critically interpret variations and contradictions in the body of available research

{ move toward the potential for knowledge synthesis

The authors of this timely volume:

{ differentiate between meta-analysis and meta-synthesis

{ write in a how-to style

{ illustrate each step with examples from their own meta-study projects in the substantive field of chronic illness

{ use their own experience with performing a meta-study to explain the process, including past mistakes and retrospective insight

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0761924159
• ISBN 13: 9780761924159
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 162
• Éditeur: Paterson Barbara L.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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