Strengths And Weaknesses Of Qualitative Approach

The study is a qualitative study, which explores subjective and descriptive information from its participants to gather information such as opinions, ideas, and behaviors. The information that is gathered can help provide an understanding of a problem or provide possible resolutions to problems

Research methodologies are the essential part in doing research and it had been discussed in many past studies in order to give more understanding toward this issue. It can be divided into few parts which are quantitative research, qualitative research and mixed method research. However, among these research methods it cannot be stated which methods are the most comprehensive because each methods have their own value in research. This task trying to give full view of qualitative research and quantitative research method.

qualitative method of analysis that researchers should learn, as it provides core skills that will be

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Qualitative research focuses on gathering of mainly verbal data rather than measurements. The gathered information is then analyzed in an interpretative or subjective manner. The primary aim of a qualitative research is to provide a complete, detailed description of the research topic. It is usually more exploratory in nature.

Qualitative or interpretive research involves data that uses words, diagrams, stories, or illustrations (Grinnell, Williams, & Unrau, pg 177, 2016). Qualitative research explores and tries to understand individuals, groups, or social problems. This process has a flexible structure, and a focus on the importance and complexity of a situation (Grinnell, Williams, & Unrau, pg 179, 2016). Qualitative research has many commonalities. Generally studies are conducted in a natural setting, the data collected are influenced by experiences of participants, and the data is not reduced to numbers (Grinnell, Williams, & Unrau, pg 182, 2016). With qualitative research participants can also voice opinions and provide benefits and harm of the study (Pathak, Jena, & Kalra, 2013).

While unlike in quantitative research, in qualitative research more stress is given to experience of respondents through their words given compared to how many spoke the same answer to reach statistical conclusions. “Qualitative research is characterised by its aims, which relate to understanding some aspect of social life, and its methods which (in general) generate words, rather than numbers, as data for analysis” (Michael Quinn Patton and Michael Cochran, 2002). Qualitative method helps to understand the experiences and attitudes of the respondents towards the topic under discussion rather than how many persons reply with same

In the field of educational research, qualitative and quantitative research both play important roles in investigating educational problems. Due to different foci of these two research methods, quantitative research relies on statistical analysis and standardized measurements (Patton, 2015), while qualitative research highly focuses on studying personal experience, perception, and understanding in a natural setting (Stake, 2010; Glesne, 2016; Gerber, Abrams, Curwood, & Magnifico, 2016), which indicates the important role of each participant’s perspective in discovering problems and addressing research questions. Usually, the purpose of a qualitative research is not mainly about drawing a conclusion about the causality or generalization, but about gaining in-depth information about a specific participant or situation (Patton, 2015). Because individuals are different, it is crucial to listen to their diverse voices and stories to better interpret a problem or a situation. In terms of the necessity of using qualitative inquiry to describe and examine research problems, it is needed to understand qualitative research and learn about how to conduct a qualitative research. In order to better comprehend the qualitative research, the author will compare and contrast multiple perspectives from different qualitative research experts. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to discuss different perspectives about what is qualitative research and how to conduct a qualitative research

The purpose of conduct this paper is to address the qualitative research method are always deal with subjectivity compare to quantitative.

An investigator, at the onset of a qualitative study has defined what the problem is and selects a sample to collect data. But from there, the researcher yields to the findings of what the study reveals. “But the researcher does not know what will be discovered, what or whom to concentrate on, or what the final analysis will be like” (Merriam 171). This addictive, yet mysterious aspect of not knowing and yet discovering, make qualitative research so meaningful. Analyzing data can be a laborious and intensive part of a qualitative research process. It may be arduous at times, but it can be manageable if a person is willing to analyze along the way. Setting up a system for organizing the collected data will only make the process easier and expeditious. There is a step-by-step process to help uncover the study’s findings. Naming the categories, figuring out how many categories there should be, and creating systems for placing data in these categories are the larger aspects.

The review of literature adequately supports the need for the study. The review of literature starts with the history from 1860’s in the Florence Nightingale era and continues to build upon the history until modern day time (Andersson, Willman, Sjöström-Strand, & Borglin, 2015). Furthermore, the review of literature builds the concept of caring and how previous research has been done do develop this concept related to caring. The researchers also discussed the evolution in nursing care related to the advances in medicine, technology, and time and financial constraints associated with providing quality nursing care. The review of literature built the problem statement by discussing the issues related to modern day nursing that has lead to basic care not being done (Andersson, Willman, Sjöström-Strand, & Borglin, 2015). The review of literature built the foundation for both the purpose of the study and research questions, additionally, both were explicitly state by the researcher in the body of the background. By the researcher building a solid foundation for the problem statement, purpose of the study, and the research question, it supported the need for the research being conducted to evaluate the nurses’ concept of caring and supports the validity of the study.

convergence and corroboration through the use of different data sources and methods. Apart from documents, such sources include interviews, participant or non-participant observation, and physical artifacts (Bowen, 2009)”. Taken together, I can understand with that qualitative research focuses on the understanding of study through natural viewpoints and participants' perspectives, the gathering of the main data by the researchers themselves, the understanding of the meaning of the researchers, and focus more on the process of finding the type of the

The qualitative research is a totally subjective rather than previous method with lots of texts along the research process without any statistics and mathematics techniques. The planning process is supposed to be the time saving activity but analysis stage is regarded as a time consuming activity. Moreover, analysis phase is much difficult rather than in the quantitative method

qualitative methods. According to Saunders et al (2007), qualitative research method is time consuming, because it collects the data through interviewing and observation. Tashakkori and Creswell (2007) argued that conducting the research is useful within positivist paradigm if the investigation is required from in depth observation within the inductive reasoning and phenomenological paradigm framework. However, as the investigation can be possible through in depth observation, the participants may not be large due to the time and resource constraint. In this regard, Tewksbury (2009) suggests to collect the data with the use quantitative research method which can include a large participants and generalize the results subsequently.

Qualitative research is a technique of promoting research that stresses the quality according to the user’s point of view and approaches. In depth interviews and focus groups are best examples of qualitative research. [Laura Lake, 2009]