Whatever happened to qualitative description?
Whatever happened to qualitative description?
M. Sandelowski
2000 · DOI: 10.1002/1098-240X(200008)23:4<334::AID-NUR9>3.0.CO;2-G
Research in Nursing and Health · 11,173 Citations
TLDR
The general view of descriptive research as a lower level form of inquiry has influenced researchers conducting qualitative research to claim methods they are really not using and not to claim the method they are using: namely, qualitative description.