1 University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Qual Health Res. 2018 Apr;28(5):789-799. doi: 10.1177/1049732317736284. Epub 2017 Nov 2.
Social science and health services research have much to gain from cross-national qualitative research, yet the logistics involved in setting up such studies, especially where different languages and health systems are involved, can seem daunting. In this article, we highlight issues to consider and suggest some solutions, drawing both on the literature and examples from our own cross-national research. We highlight the issues involved with synchronizing staffing and funding, ensuring comparable methods, project management, and communication between research groups, the consequences of the different criteria for ethical approval for recruitment, the challenge of working with multiple languages, teams involving different disciplines and skill sets, and coordinating and timing data collection and analysis. The aim of this article is to draw on the literature, which includes several useful insights, as well as reflections from our own cross-national research, to highlight considerations for cross-national qualitative research teams. Our approach is to highlight and discuss potential challenges and suggest potential solutions, using the format of an illustrated literature review.
社会科学和卫生服务研究可以从跨国定性研究中获得很多收益，但在设置此类研究时所涉及的后勤工作，特别是在涉及不同语言和卫生系统的情况下，可能看起来令人生畏。在本文中，我们将重点介绍需要考虑的问题，并提出一些解决方案，这些方案既借鉴了文献，也借鉴了我们自己的跨国研究的例子。我们重点介绍了协调人员配备和资金、确保可比方法、项目管理以及研究小组之间的沟通、因招募而导致的不同伦理审批标准的后果、使用多种语言工作的挑战、涉及不同学科和技能的团队，以及协调和安排数据收集和分析的问题。本文的目的是借鉴文献，其中包括一些有用的见解，以及我们自己的跨国研究的反思，以突出跨国定性研究团队需要考虑的问题。我们的方法是突出和讨论潜在的挑战，并提出潜在的解决方案，使用文献综述的形式。
