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...evealed that assequential method of searching, however systematic,swas insufficient to locate qualitative studies. Searchingswas iterative and reflective, informed by the metaphor of “berry picking” (=-=Barroso et al., 2003-=-). Thesprocess included false trails, frustrations, and subtlesshifts in thinking and direction, along with surprisessand rewards. Ultimately, a purposive sample ofsreports was obtained that represent...

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... of search strategies that can substantively add to evidence located using a protocol-driven database search so that these strategies can be used optimally within the inevitable resource constraints (=-=Barroso et al., 2003-=-; Booth, 2006). The main limitation of our study is that, because of the complex nature of the sources concerned, we have not identified the number of unique hits obtained using each strategy. Resourc...

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...ch is done. Knowledge cannot be synthesized from limited collections of study reports without a thorough analysis of their foundations and features (Paterson et al., 2001; Barroso & Sandelowski, 2003 =-=Barroso et al., 2003-=-). Developers of the different approaches question the worth of metasynthesis and matters of representation and generalization (Paterson, Canam, Joachim & Thorne, 2003; Thorne, Jensen, Kearney, Noblit...

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...inct findings from qualitative studies. Hence, useful information from qualitative enquires can be added to the evidence foundation and used by policy makers and practitioners. (Jensen & Allen, 1996) =-=(45)-=- state that the meta-synthesis stresses he significance in maintaining creditability, auditability, and fittingness. Creditability highlights the 'truth value' of a meta-synthesis in its ability to re...

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... metasynthesis has gained considerable attention over the past decade in the social science field (DixonWoods, Booth, & Sutton, 2007; Major & Savin-Baden, 2010) and most visibly in the nursing field (=-=Barroso et al., 2003-=-; Sandelowski & Barroso, 2007; Sandelowski et al., 1997;sSherwood, 1999; Zimmer, 2006). It holds a promise of providing a unique and significantscontribution to the education field in much of the same...

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... in a large number of abstracts. Additionally, we examined all references quoted in the selected papers for eligibility, and identified abstracts were reviewed for eligibility by at least two persons =-=[61]-=-. Third, even with three persons involved in the inductive categorization of QoL domains not included in the SEIQoL prompt list, other researchers might have proposed other inductive categories. Howev...

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...r of papers required. Identifying papers for inclusion The problems of searching electronic databases for qualitative research have been noted (Dixon-Woods and Fitzpatrick, 2001; Hawker et al., 2002; =-=Barroso et al., 2003-=-). Under an ESRC-funded project led by Dixon-Woods et al. (www.ccsr.ac.uk/methods) some of these problems are now being evaluated. Much of the debate has focused on how to determine the number of pape...

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...tudy, especially when a single method lacks the conceptual or phenomenological sensitivity to do so on its own. Such parallelism has already begun to surface in the form of qualitative metasyntheses (=-=Barroso, Gollop, Sandelowski, Meynell, Pearce, & Collins, 2003-=-). Moving beyond meta-analyses, meta-syntheses refer to both the interpretive products and analytic processes by which the findings of various studies are aggregated and integrated. The key, however, ...

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...o locating relevant studies is therefore not straightforward. Inclusion decisions Systematic reviews of trials attempt to locate every possible study on a given topic or intervention and some authors =-=[18,21]-=- advocate a similar approach for qualitative syntheses. In contrast, and in keeping with the methods of primary qualitative research, other methodologists suggest the use of theoretical sampling until...