From: Parasexuality in genitourinary investigations: a qualitative study
Standards of rigour | Suggested methods of research practice | Methods to ensure rigour in this study |
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Credibility | 1. Let the participants guide the inquiry process. | Constant comparative analysis and data collected over one year. |
2. Check the theoretical construction generated against the participants’ actual words in the theory. | ||
3. Use participants’ actual words in theory. | Verbatim quotes used in the findings section. | |
4. Articulate the researcher’s personal views and insights about the phenomenon explored by means of: | ||
a. Post-comment interview sheets used as a tool. | Reflexive journal used. | |
b. A personal journal | Literature was used in the background and discussion. | |
c. Monitoring how the literature was used | ||
Auditability | 5. Specify the criteria built into the researcher’s thinking. | An outline of method used. |
6. Specify how and why participants in the study were selected. | Outlined in section on participants. | |
Fittingness | 7. Delineate the scope of the research in terms of the sample, setting and level of the theory generated. | Delineated in the abstract and main body of article. |
8. Describe how the literature relates to each category which emerged in the theory. | Using the categories as headings, literature was drawn upon in the discussion. |