Meta-Study of Qualitative Health Research: A Practical Guide to Meta-Analysis and Meta-Synthesis / Edition 1

by Barbara L. Paterson, Sally E. Thorne, Connie Canam, Carol Jillings

Overview

"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, Ph D, 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761924142
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	06/01/2001
Series:	Methods in Nursing Research
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Sally Thorne, RN, Ph D, FAAN, FCAHS, is a Professor and former Director of the School of Nursing at the University of British Columbia, where she currently also holds the position of Associate Dean of Applied Science. She has a longstanding research program in the field of patient experience and relational practice in chronic illness and cancer care in addition to a body of scholarly work in the philosophy of science, the nature of evidence, and applied qualitative methodology. She is author of four books, including a popular qualitative research text on Interpretive Description. She has an extensive record of peer reviewed journal publications and has presented her work internationally as invited scholar, keynote lecturer and distinguished professor. She is Editor-in-Chief of the scholarly journal Nursing Inquiry and Associate Editor for Qualitative Health Research. She has served terms as Board Director for numerous organizations, including the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, Canadian Partnership Against Cancer, Canadian Association of Nurses in Oncology, the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, and the Association of Registered Nurses of British Columbia, and is a Fellow of both the American Academy of Nursing and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.

ducational Background

    BN, Dalhousie University
    MSN, University of British Columbia
    Ph D, University of Victoria

Service

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

Table of Contents

Introduction
Laying the Groundwork for Meta-Study
The Retrieval and Assessment of Primary Research
Meta-Data-Analysis
Meta-Method
Meta-Theory
Meta-Synthesis
Evaluation, Dissemination and Future Challenges

Editorial Reviews

"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

"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

Believing that the findings, methods, and theory of qualitative research reports must be analyzed before a synthesis of the research can occur, Paterson (nursing, U. of British Columbia, Canada) and colleagues argue that meta-study should be applied to both critical interpretation of contributions from various disciplines, as well as to developments and refinements in mid-range theory. Advice is offered on how to start a meta-study research project, specific procedures are detailed, and a description on how to bring varied analytical procedures together into a "meta-synthesis" is provided. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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