Chapter 5 - Introduction to Qualitative Research

Uses words as opposed to numbers to explain a phenomenon. A broad term that encompasses several different methodologies that share many similarities. They helped us formulate an understanding of a phenomenon.

Also known as world view.

And observations as defined by its circumstance are context

What are the steps in the research process?

Components of a qualitative research

A more personal setting such as someone home not in the clinic interview room or researches office.

characteristics that restrict a population to a homogeneous group of subjects.

The point in which nothing new is emerging from the interviews

When the interview questions maybe broad like the overview

Broad, abstract, overarching categories of meaning.