Qualitative content analysis: a guide to paths not taken.
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Morgan, DL
Published in: Qualitative health research
February 1993
Counting codes makes qualitative content analysis a controversial approach to analyzing textual data. Several decades ago, mainstream content analysis rejected qualitative content analysis on the grounds that it was not sufficiently quantitative; today, it is often charged with not being sufficiently qualitative. This article argues that qualitative content analysis is distinctively qualitative in both its approach to coding and its interpretations of counts from codes. Rather than argue over whether to do qualitative content analysis, researchers must make informed decisions about when to use it in analyzing qualitative data.
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Qualitative health research
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1049-7323
Publication Date
February 1993
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3
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1
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112 / 121
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Morgan, D. L. (1993). Qualitative content analysis: a guide to paths not taken. Qualitative Health Research, 3(1), 112–121. https://doi.org/10.1177/104973239300300107
Morgan, D. L. “Qualitative content analysis: a guide to paths not taken.” Qualitative Health Research 3, no. 1 (February 1993): 112–21. https://doi.org/10.1177/104973239300300107.
Morgan DL. Qualitative content analysis: a guide to paths not taken. Qualitative health research. 1993 Feb;3(1):112–21.
Morgan, D. L. “Qualitative content analysis: a guide to paths not taken.” Qualitative Health Research, vol. 3, no. 1, Feb. 1993, pp. 112–21. Epmc, doi:10.1177/104973239300300107.
Morgan DL. Qualitative content analysis: a guide to paths not taken. Qualitative health research. 1993 Feb;3(1):112–121.
Published In
Qualitative health research
DOI
ISSN
1049-7323
Publication Date
February 1993
Volume
3
Issue
1
Start / End Page
112 / 121
Related Subject Headings
- Nursing Methodology Research
- Nursing
- Humans
- Data Interpretation, Statistical
- Abstracting and Indexing
- 44 Human society
- 42 Health sciences
- 17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
- 16 Studies in Human Society
- 11 Medical and Health Sciences