1996/04/01 by Patricia Hill Bailey · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Nursing · Psychology · #Qualitative Research Methods and Applications #Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics #Nursing Education, Practice, and Leadership #Credibility #Narrative #Quality (philosophy) #Positivism #Qualitative research #Perspective (graphical) #Narrative inquiry #Context (archaeology) #Epistemology #Psychology #Management science #Engineering ethics #Sociology #Computer science #Social science
paper · doi:10.1177/019394599601800206
openalex publication_date 1996/04/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
Many nurse-researchers using qualitative strategies have been concerned with assuring quality in their work. The early literature reveals that the concepts of validity and reliability, as understood from the positivist perspective, are somehow inappropriate and inadequate when applied to interpretive research. More recent literature suggests that because of the positivist and interpretive paradigms are epistemologically divergent, the transfer of quality criteria from one perspective to the other is not automatic or even reasonable. The purpose of this article, therefore, is to clarify what the terms quality, trustworthiness, credibility, authenticity, and goodness mean in qualitative research findings. The process of assuring quality, validation, in qualitative research will be discussed within the context of the interpretive method, narrative analysis. A brief review of quality in narrative analysis nursing research will also be presented.