I am trying to find a qualitative research article
I am trying to find a qualitative research article related to a health care topic. I am having trouble finding an article, most seem to be quantitative articles. If you could provide me with some tips on how to find some qualitative articles that would be great.
Answer
CINAHL (the nursing database) and MEDLINE (for biomedical) both have the option to search just for qualitative research. There's a couple steps:
- Go to the database you need - CINAHL for nursing questions MEDLINE for biomedical
- Under the search boxes select the CINAHL Headings or MeSH tab respectively.
- In the new search box, type in qualitative and search. Select Qualitative Studies from the list using the check box to the left and select Explode on the right. Then use the Add to search button to run the search in the index.
- This will pull up all the qualitative articles in the database. You can use the second search box to narrow to your topic.
