Interpretive Description: Qualitative Research for Applied Practice [Hardcover]

This new, third edition of Interpretive Description: Qualitative Research for Applied Practice?takes the reader through the qualitative research process. It retains the clear, straightforward guidance for researchers and students in health, social service, mental health, and related fields that made previous editions so popular.

PART I: INTERPRETIVE DESCRIPTION IN CONCEPT  1. Qualitative Research in the Applied Disciplines  2. Cultivating Questions in the Applied Practice Field  3. Scaffolding a Study  4. Framing a Study Design  5. Strategizing a Credible Study  PART II: INTERPRETIVE DESCRIPTION IN ACTION  6. Entering the Field  7. Constructing and Managing Data  8. Working With Data  9. Transforming Your Data  10. Writing Findings  PART III: INTERPRETIVE DESCRIPTION IN CONTEXT  11. Interpreting Meanings  12. Enhancing Credibility  13. Disseminating Findings  14. Advancing Evidence with Interpretive Description  15. Interpretive Description in Mixed Methods Research  16. Aggregating, Synthesizing, and Building Knowledge  17. Knowledge in Action  18. Post-Script: Looking Forward with Optimism

Sally Thorne is a Professor Emeritus in the School of Nursing at the University of British Columbia, Canada. She is editor-in-chief of the journal Nursing Inquiry.

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