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PublicationQuality of qualitative research in the health sciences: Analysis of the common criteria present in 58 assessment guidelines by expert users( 2016-01)
;Santiago-Delefosse, M ;Gavin, A ;Bruchez, C ;Roux, PThe number of qualitative research methods has grown substantially over the last thirty years, both in social sciences and, more recently, in health sciences. This growth came with questions on the quality criteria needed to evaluate this work, and numerous guidelines were published. These guidelines, however, include many discrepancies, both in terms of vocabulary and structure. Many expert evaluators also decry the absence of consensual and reliable evaluation tools. To address this gap, we present the results of an evaluation of 58 existing guidelines in four major health science fields (medicine and epidemiology; nursing and health education; social sciences and public health; psychology/psychiatry, research methods and organization) by expert (n = 16) and peer (n = 40) users (e.g., article reviewers, experts allocating funds, editors). This research was conducted between 2011 and 2014 at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. Experts met during three workshops spread over this period. A series of 12 consensual essential criteria, along with definitions, stemmed from a question in a semi-qualitative evaluation questionnaire that we developed. Although there is consensus on the name of the criteria, we highlight limitations on the ability to compare specific definitions of criteria across health science fields. We conclude that each criterion must be explained to come to broader consensus and identify definitions that are easily operational and consensual to all fields examined.Type: journal articleJournal: Social Science and MedicineVolume: 148 -
PublicationCritères de qualité des recherches qualitatives en sciences de la santé. À propos d’une analyse comparative de huit grilles de critères de qualité en psychiatrie/psychologie et en médecine( 2015-06)
;Santiago-Delefosse, M ;Bruchez, C ;Gavin, AIntroduction There is an increasing number of qualitative research in the health sciences. However, such research encounters difficulty in being published and is less recognised by funding agencies and/or reviewers of journals. Given this situation, researchers have developed a set of grids and criteria intended to establish the “standards” of the quality of qualitative research. Objectives The authors of this study performed a comparative analysis of eight grids and the constituent criteria, in order to assess their comparability. Method A review of existing evaluation grids in the health sciences was conducted via the search engines: Web of Science, Science Direct, PsychoInfo, Medline, etc. This established a brief overview of the state of the research. Following this, eight grids from psychology/psychiatry and general medicine, which have been translated into French for the first time, are presented. Finally, the authors provide a descriptive and thematic analysis of the content and structure of these grids. Results The comparison between the grids demonstrates the difficulties in finding an agreement in the definitions of criteria between the various authors. These difficulties evidence the differences between the grids from the point of view of the underlying epistemology and the point of view of the criteria used (number, type, form, content). Discussion The authors show that the differences between the grids reflect the diversity of paradigms implicitly referred to by the authors of the grids, although never explicitly mentioned in their texts. Conclusion The authors conclude that the increase in publications of qualitative research has failed to overcome the difficulties in establishing criteria, both defined and shared, and that the great heterogeneity of concepts raises major problems, not only methodological, but also epistemological and theoretical.Type: journal articleJournal: L'Évolution PsychiatriqueVolume: 80Issue: 2 -
PublicationType: journal articleJournal: Forum: Qualitative Social Research
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PublicationComplexity of the Paradigms Present in Quality Criteria of Qualitative Research Grids(Sage Publ., 2015-12)
;Santiago-Delefosse, M ;Bruchez, C ;Gavin, ARoux, PType: journal articleJournal: Sage Open -
PublicationA Thematic Comparison of Eight Frameworks of Quality Criteria in Qualitative Health Research( 2014)
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PublicationAnalysis of the criteria for assessing the quality of qualitative research in the field of health sciences at an international level(FNS, Bern, 2013)
;Santiago-Delefosse, M ;Bruchez, C ;Gavin, A ;Benaroyo, LKaufmann, AType: conference poster