When conducting a systematic review, whether selected articles are qualitative and/or quantitative, can the analysis perform qualitatively by using the thematic analysis method?
I think a literature review is different from a systematic review which is a research method/design.
@B Suni Santha De Silva
I hope I have understood your question. You are wondering if Systematic Review Analysis could be conducted qualitatively. It depends on the study desig it qualitative or quantitative OR both? Thematic Analysis is for qualitative SR and quantitative SR is analysed quantitatively by deciding P-value, Confidence Interval. Ask your self if there are some soft Wares for analysing qualitative and quantitative Systematic Reviews. I hope I have thrown some light on your question.
Yes, if the research question needs to be answered through qualitative data....then systematic review to search and include all relevant studies can be performed.... qualitative data can be extracted with quotes from included papers followed by analysis using any qualitative approach like thematic analysis. This type of data synthesis is known as Qualitative Meta-synthesis
I hope this is useful... although veey vague....Please refer to few papers from Pubmed/google scholar
Yes. Evidence synthesis can be done using a qualitative approach. Inductive thematic analysis may be helpful.
https://bmcmedresmethodol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2288-8-45
The above article may be helpful for you..
Article Protocol on a systematic review of qualitative studies on as...
Yes, it is possible. Previous projects:
1. A systematic review of qualitative research on the contributory factors leading to medicine-related problems from the perspectives of adult patients with cardiovascular diseases and diabetes mellitus
2. A systematic review and thematic synthesis exploring how a previous experience of physically activity influences engagement with cardiac rehabilitation
I hope this information helps.
Thank you all for your views.
I agree with you all, qualitative research articles/qualitative systematic reviews need qualitative analysis/thematic analysis. For the quantitative articles /quantitative systematic reviews may need quantitative meta-analysis. These two separate analysis methods are common and have already developed software too.
My concerns, if we use both qualitative and quantitative research articles in one study/one systematic review, can't we use a qualitative analysis metod /thematic analysis? I know there may not have software for that but can't we think differently to do that. Do we always need to get the numbers from quantitative studies? Can't we interpret the numerical values qualitatively and conclude/ present them as overall thems? Open for your valuable thoughts...........
A systematic literature review is a detailed process by itself. If the research questions under consideration require some sort of qualitative analysis as against just reporting the number of studies that used a specific research design method, frameworks, sample size ranges, population, etc., then for sure to gain more insights into the work done in the past then qualitative analysis can be used.
This depends on subjects of specializations like humanities , social science or any kind of language qualitative review may be possible. But for scientific subject whether purely qualitative review is is possible!!
The Joanna Briggs Institute (jbi.global) has clear guidance in conducting qualitative systematic reviews