Objectives:
Upon completion of this workshop participants will be able to:
1. Describe the range of sources available to identify qualitative research
2. Understand the specific requirements when identifying and retrieving qualitative research
3. Plan a search strategy for retrieval of qualitative research to complement a Cochrane review
4. Discuss the merits of purposive and exhaustive approaches of qualitative research
Description:
The latest Cochrane Handbook now acknowledges the contribution of non-trial evidence, including a specific chapter on qualitative evidence synthesis. Identification and retrieval of qualitative research is particularly problematic given such factors as the lack of sophistication of database taxonomies, the non-informative nature of titles and abstracts and the small-scale and typically unfunded nature of the research itself. This workshop acknowledges these challenges and provides practical strategies to overcome them in the synthesis and integration of qualitative and quantitative research. This workshop is presented by a co-convenor of the Qualitative Research Methods Group who has delivered workshop sessions for the Group in Bergen, Oxford and Adelaide. It also provides an opportunity to update developments in the field since the Melbourne Colloquium in 2005.
Target audience:
Reviewers, Trial Register Coordinators and Health Service Researchers
Style of workshop:
Interactive but with didactic content.