Adding Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research to Health Intervention Studies: Interacting with Differences

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 587-602

  Johnson, R Burke ^a   Schoonenboom, Judith ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

epistemology; methodology; North America; North Americans; qualitative; research design; United States of America

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DOCUMENTATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; PROCEDURES; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REPRODUCIBILITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

DATA COLLECTION; DECISION MAKING; DOCUMENTATION; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84962534804     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: 15527557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049732315617479     Document Type: Review

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