Concept advancement: enhancing inductive validity.

Full Abstract

Enhancing inductive validity while advancing a concept has always been a dilemma for qualitative researchers. This dilemma is paramount for researchers completing a series of small discrete projects all focused on the same concept. How do researchers use knowledge from their earlier research while maintaining an inductive paradigm? Template comparison, a method of sequential triangulation, is proposed as a solution to this problem. Template comparison allows the researcher to use findings from earlier studies, which employed the same or different qualitative methods, as a guide for the data collection, interpretative, and theoretical phases of the new study. The authors' research of the concept of trust is used as an example of the application of template comparison.

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Author information

Author/s: Hupcey, Judith E (JE); Penrod, Janice (J);

Affiliation: School of Nursing, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA 17033, USA. jxh37(-atsign-)psu.edu

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article; Review

Journal: Research and theory for nursing practice (Res Theory Nurs Pract), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2003-; vol 17 (issue 1) : pp 19-30

Dates: Created 2003/05/19; Completed 2003/06/02; Revised 2005/11/16;

PMID: 12751883, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 12/26/2008)

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Comments and Corrections

CommentIn: Res Theory Nurs Pract. 2003 Summer;17(2):169-74. (PMID: 12880220)

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MeSH headings (categories)

This article was linked to the MESH Headings shown below.

Concept Formation
Data Collection - methods; standards
Data Interpretation, Statistical
Humans
Knowledge
Logic
Models, Nursing

Models, Nursing
Nurse-Patient Relations
Nursing Methodology Research - methods; standards
Qualitative Research
Reproducibility of Results
Research Design - standards
Trust

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