Urry Kristi, Hunter Sarah, Feo Rebecca, Scholz Brett
School of Psychology, 1066University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
College of Nursing and Health Sciences, 1065Flinders University, Bedford Park, SA, Australia.
Qual Health Res. 2023 Mar;33(4):345-355. doi: 10.1177/10497323221150130. Epub 2023 Jan 31.
Qualitative story completion (QSC) is an innovative research method that offers researchers a range of unique opportunities for generating and analysing data. Participants are asked to write a 'story' in response to a hypothetical 'story stem', often in the third-person and involving fictional characters, rather than reporting on their direct experiences. QSC is being developed and increasingly taken up by researchers working across a range of fields; but it has been little used in health research, especially in the fields of nursing, health services research, medicine, and allied health. This means that health researchers have few examples to draw on when considering what QSC can offer them and how to rigorously design, conduct, and report a QSC study within health-related fields. We aim to address this gap and contribute to existing QSC literature by promoting increased use of QSC by health researchers and supporting them to produce rigorous QSC research. We outline three case examples illustrating how we have used QSC to conduct multidisciplinary health research relevant to nursing, medicine and nutrition. Drawing on these case examples, we reflect on challenges that we encountered, describe decision-making processes, and offer recommendations for conducting rigorous health research using QSC.
定性故事完成法（QSC）是一种创新的研究方法，为研究人员提供了一系列生成和分析数据的独特机会。参与者被要求根据一个假设的“故事主干”来写一个“故事”，通常采用第三人称，涉及虚构人物，而不是报告他们的直接经历。QSC正在被各个领域的研究人员开发并越来越多地采用；但它在健康研究中很少被使用，尤其是在护理、卫生服务研究、医学和相关健康领域。这意味着健康研究人员在考虑QSC能为他们提供什么以及如何在健康相关领域严格设计、开展和报告一项QSC研究时，几乎没有实例可借鉴。我们旨在填补这一空白，并通过促进健康研究人员更多地使用QSC并支持他们开展严格的QSC研究，为现有的QSC文献做出贡献。我们概述了三个案例，说明我们如何使用QSC进行与护理、医学和营养相关的多学科健康研究。借鉴这些案例，我们反思了遇到的挑战，描述了决策过程，并为使用QSC进行严格的健康研究提供了建议。
