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How do we Talk to Each other? Writing Qualitative Research for Quantitative Readers

Linda Liska Belgrave

Department of Sociology, University of Miami, Florida.

Diane Zablotsky

Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Mary Ann Guadagno

National Institutes of Health, Center for Scientific Review, Institute on Aging, Bethesda, Maryland.

The growth of qualitative research holds the potential for vastly enriching our understanding of phenomena in the health sciences. However, the potential of this trend is hampered by a widespread inability of quantitative and qualitative researchers to talk to each other. The authors’ concern in this area grows out of our experience reviewing small grant applications for the National Institute on Aging, where they frequently find qualitative research proposals scoring worse than do those using quantitative approaches. This article addresses practical problems in communicating qualitative research to readers whose training and experience is primarily quantitative. Two themes running through the discussion are the need for detail and the explicit tying of methodological strategies to research goals.

Qualitative Health Research, Vol. 12, No. 10, 1427-1439 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/1049732302238753
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