by
Christine Kowalski, MPH
;
Andrea Nevedal, PhD
Seminar date: 11/14/2024
Description: Rapid qualitative methods play a central role in implementation, quality improvement work, and health services research, with the potential to yield prompt information and insights about context, processes, and relationships. However, guidance on how to assess rigor in these methods is nascent. Presenters will introduce you to a newly published framework, The Planning for and Assessing Rigor in Rapid Qualitative Analysis (PARRQA) framework. This framework provides a consensus-based resource to support high-level qualitative methodological rigor in implementation science and answers the following questions: what does rigor entail in projects that use rapid qualitative analysis (RQA)? How do we define a pragmatic framework to help research teams design and conduct rigorous and valid rapid qualitative projects? How can authors articulate rigor in their methods descriptions? Lastly, how can reviewers evaluate the rigor of rapid qualitative projects? Presenters will review 18 recommendations that specify best practices for rigor and validity.
Intended audience:
Researchers, practitioners, leaders, or policy makers with an interest in conducting or planning to use rapid qualitative methods.
