Xie Yan-ming, Liao Xing
Zhong Xi Yi Jie He Xue Bao. 2008 Jul;6(7):668-73. doi: 10.3736/jcim20080702.
It is not finally concluded how to standardize the use of qualitative research in the world. Qualitative researchers disagree with each other about this issue. As we know, there have been a large number of articles written in different ways about qualitative research due to the "flexibility", one of its features. Qualitative research is quite different from quantitative research which is easy to control its quality and quality assessment. A series of criteria has been set up for quantitative research. However qualitative research needs to be improved in these aspects, in which qualitative interviews are mostly used at home and abroad at present. Hence, it becomes an important and urgent issue for qualitative researchers to standardly control and assess the quality of qualitative interview.
在世界范围内，如何规范定性研究的使用尚未有最终定论。定性研究人员在这个问题上存在分歧。众所周知，由于定性研究的一个特点——“灵活性”，已经有大量以不同方式撰写的关于定性研究的文章。定性研究与易于控制质量和质量评估的定量研究有很大不同。定量研究已经建立了一系列标准。然而，定性研究在这些方面需要改进，目前国内外大多使用定性访谈。因此，对于定性研究人员来说，规范地控制和评估定性访谈的质量成为一个重要且紧迫的问题。
