Question

What level is qualitative research? Is it worthy of being incorporated into a body of evidence that supports practice change?  

Answer 1

(1) What level is qualitative research?

​​​(2) Is it worthy of being incorporated into a body of evidence that supports practice change?

Qualitative Research is Level 5 and Level 6 Lead 5 - Systamatic Review (of) Descriptive (or) Qualitative studies Level 6 - Single descriptive (en) Qualitative studies * Def: Method that systematically examines a phenomenon wing an inductúc approach ,' and exploration of meaning of phenomenon purpose is to understand & describe human experience, explore meanings, patterns , data are Often narrative.

* Yes, it ie worthy of being incorporated into body of evidence that supports practice change. * However some important challenges are (1) Lack of attention to philosophical under pinning of qualitative methodology (2) Insufficient methodology Knowledge (3) Inconsistency between Research Questions and methodologies