[PDF] Facilitating research students in formulating qualitative research questions. | Semantic Scholar (2024)

The availability of frameworks in the form of mnemonics can help in the development of a research question, but their use and limitations must be fully understood.

Insight into the practical difficulties encountered when performing qualitative studies is offered and solutions and alternatives applied by these authors, which may be of use to others.

This paper disagrees with the alleged limitations of PICO and argues that the scheme can be used universally for every scientific endeavour in any discipline with all study designs, regardless of a preferred study design.

The findings indicate that the barriers to participation are influenced by the prevalent organisation structure and culture, and a divide between faculty and other staff, and the perceived existence of an organisational culture that inhibits staff communication, interaction and collaboration.

The ideal would be to have a global quality model so that it would be easy to identify what is really needed to implement, maintain, ensure or adequately compare quality across all universities, regardless of their geographical location.

This study presented a beginner's guide to basic methodological guides and key points to perform SLR, especially for those from non-health related background.

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The widely-held assumption of a single, more or less unified paradigm of 'qualitative research' whose methodologies share certain epistemological and ontological characteristics is questioned, and the implications for judgements about the quality of research studies are explored.

An eight‐step, 28‐question, iterative approach is proposed to help with the careful planning of experiments in order to maximise the researchers' chances of acceptance when submitting the study for funding and its results for publication.

It is claimed that if the research product is well signposted, the readers will be able to travel easily through the worlds of the participants and makers of the text and decide for themselves whether the text is believable or plausible (the authors' terms for rigour).

In this article, Rollanda Law reflects on personal experience of developing research questions for a PhD study, which concerns palliative nursing care in the community and illustrates the challenging process of developing a research question.

The author argues that the representation of the researcher in qualitative inquiries is inevitable, and the exclusion, or not, of theearcher from the text is a mere conventional agreement founded on a paradigmatic consensus.

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