Has anyone read a report of a qualitative study before reading the one in this chapter? Where did you encounter it? What can you tell us about it? The point of reading research reports at this point is to understand them and extract essential information. Appraisal will come later.
Discuss the Why–How–What of one of the qualitative studies listed below and respond to the questions below:
Why did the researchers think it was important to do this study?
What did their study do that those other studies did not do?
Franco, J. H. M., Evangelista, C. B., Rodrigues, M. de S. D., Cruz, R. A. de O., Franco, I. da S. M. F., & Freire, M. L. (2021). Music therapy in oncology: perceptions of children and adolescents in palliative care. Escola Anna Nery, 25(5). https://doi.org/10.1590/2177-9465-EAN-2021-0012Links to an external site.
Martí, G. C., Fernández, F. A., Fernández, S. C., Pérez, R. R., Esteban, B. A. A., Hernández, P. J. M., & Granero, M. J. (2023). Patients’ experiences and perceptions of dignity in end‐of‐life care in emergency departments: A qualitative study. Journal of Advanced Nursing (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.), 79(1), 269–280. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.15432Links to an external site.