Helen Noble, Joanna Smith
Evaluating the quality of research is essential if findings are to be utilised in practice and incorporated into care delivery. In a previous article we explored 'bias' across research designs and outlined strategies to minimise bias. Concepts such as reliability, validity and generalisability typic...
Muhammad Faisol Chowdhury
Astrid Berner-Rodoreda, Till Bärnighausen, Caitlin E. Kennedy, Svend Brinkmann et al.
Qualitative interview styles have been guided by precedent within academic disciplines. The nature of information sought, and the role of interviewer and interviewee are key determinants across styles, which range from doxastic (focused on understanding interviewees' experiences or behaviors) to epi...
Devajit Mohajan, Haradhan Kumar Mohajan
This study tries to identify, define, and analyze the coding techniques that the grounded theory researchers follow when they develop the qualitative research. Grounded theory is a qualitative research analysis that systematically collects and analyzes data to develop a new theory on human behavior ...
M. Rezaul Islam, Niaz Ahmed Khan, Rajendra Baikady
Wendy Sykes
Devajit Mohajan, Haradhan Kumar Mohajan
This article tries to explore the constructivist grounded theory (CGT) in qualitative research. American sociologist Kathy Charmaz has developed a new qualitative research field “Constructivist Grounded Theory” for the first time in 2006. Constructivist grounded theory is a qualitative research meth...
Rochelle K. Rosen, Monique Gainey, Sabiha Nasrin, Stephanie C. Garbern et al.
Objective: Framework Matrix Analysis (FMA) and Applied Thematic Analysis (ATA) are qualitative methods that have not been as widely used/cited compared to content analysis or grounded theory. This paper compares methods of FMA with ATA for mobile health (mHealth) research. The same qualitative data ...
Devajit Mohajan, Haradhan Kumar Mohajan
This paper develops memo writing techniques within the framework of grounded theory methodology of qualitative research in social sciences. In grounded theory, memoing is one of the most important processes to develop and enrich theory. Memo is the written record of the researcher’s thinking. It is ...
Haradhan Kumar Mohajan, Devajit Mohajan
Grounded theory (GT) has appeared as a popular research approach in many branches of social science that acts for the well-being of the society. It is an inductive methodology, and focuses on the discovery of theory from data. Overtimes original grounded theory of Barney Galland Glaser (1930-2022) a...
Devajit Mohajan, Haradhan Kumar Mohajan
Grounded theory (GT) is a general research method that provides the efficient generation of theory from data, which are collected by a strong, sound, and fair research method. It is an inductive methodology that systematically collects and analyzes data for developing theory on human behavior in soc...
Muzaffar Hasan, Lalit Kumar Kumar
Determination of a valid sample size is a fundamental step in research. This paper explains how existing formulas are tied in a single thread by applying the concept of standard error, margin of error, Z and t scores, confidence interval and sampling distribution. Bringing the concept of sample cont...
Haradhan Kumar Mohajan
The purpose of this paper is to flourish the grounded theory (GT) methodology in qualitative research from the feminist viewpoint. Since the mid-1990s feminist researches on grounded theory have been started and researchers have been using this approach for the research on the basis of practical exp...
Margaret Alston, Mahfuza Mala, Hasina Zaman
This chapter presents an overview of cross-cultural research from the perspective of outsider researchers and insider experts. For the outsiders, such research is fraught with ethical challenges associated with working in another country where the researchers may not know the language or customs. Fo...