TY - JOUR
T1 - The challenges of searching for and retrieving qualitative studies
AU - Barroso, Julie
AU - Gollop, Claudia J.
AU - Sandelowski, Margarete
AU - Meynell, Janet
AU - Pearce, Patricia F.
AU - Collins, Linda J.
N1 - Funding Information:
2. This study, titled “Analytic Techniques for Qualitative Metasynthesis,” is supported by grant no. R01 NR04907 from the National Institute of Nursing Research.
Copyright:
Copyright 2012 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2003/3
Y1 - 2003/3
N2 - The authors' purpose in this article is to report the results of their search and retrieval efforts to date in an ongoing study to develop the procedural, analytic, and interpretive techniques to conduct qualitative meta-synthesis projects, using studies on women with HIV infection as the method case. For researchers conducting qualitative meta-synthesis projects, the ideal goal is to retrieve all of the relevant studies in a field - not simply a sample of them. Bates's model of berrypicking is used as the framework to describe the techniques used to conduct these searches. The authors discuss, in particular, the challenges of working with bibliographic databases, including choosing which databases to search, learning about the idiosyncrasies of working with each database, developing a list of search terms, and refining inclusion criteria regarding which studies to include in the meta-synthesis. Recommendations are given for searchers and writers of qualitative research.
AB - The authors' purpose in this article is to report the results of their search and retrieval efforts to date in an ongoing study to develop the procedural, analytic, and interpretive techniques to conduct qualitative meta-synthesis projects, using studies on women with HIV infection as the method case. For researchers conducting qualitative meta-synthesis projects, the ideal goal is to retrieve all of the relevant studies in a field - not simply a sample of them. Bates's model of berrypicking is used as the framework to describe the techniques used to conduct these searches. The authors discuss, in particular, the challenges of working with bibliographic databases, including choosing which databases to search, learning about the idiosyncrasies of working with each database, developing a list of search terms, and refining inclusion criteria regarding which studies to include in the meta-synthesis. Recommendations are given for searchers and writers of qualitative research.
KW - Computer literature searching
KW - Information retrieval
KW - Information-seeking behavior
KW - Qualitative meta-synthesis
KW - Qualitative research
KW - Research integration
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U2 - 10.1177/0193945902250034
DO - 10.1177/0193945902250034
M3 - Article
C2 - 12666641
AN - SCOPUS:0037364563
VL - 25
SP - 153
EP - 178
JO - Western Journal of Nursing Research
JF - Western Journal of Nursing Research
SN - 0193-9459
IS - 2
ER -
