Abstract
Scholars in diverse health-related disciplines and specialty fields of practice routinely promote qualitative research as an essential component of intervention and implementation programs of research and of a comprehensive evidence base for practice. Remarkably little attention, however, has been paid to the most important element of qualitative studies—the findings in reports of those studies—and specifically to enhancing the accessibility and utilization value of these findings for diverse audiences of users. The findings in reports of qualitative health research are too often difficult to understand and even to find owing to the way they are presented. A basic strategy for enhancing the presentation of these findings is to translate them into thematic statements, which can then in turn be translated into the language of intervention and implementation. Writers of qualitative health research reports might consider these strategies better to showcase the significance and actionability of findings to a wider audience.
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Qualitative researchThematic analysisPresentation (obstetrics)PsychologyUSableIntervention (counseling)Medical educationPublic relationsEngineering ethicsMedicineNursingSociologyComputer scienceMultimediaPolitical scienceEngineeringSocial science
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- 22
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- 10
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- 1404-1413
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Margarete Sandelowski,
Jennifer Leeman
(2012).
Writing Usable Qualitative Health Research Findings.
Qualitative Health Research
, 22
(10)
, 1404-1413.
https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732312450368
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- 10.1177/1049732312450368