{"title":"What is Q methodology?","authors":"Julie Duncan Millar, H. Mason, Lisa Kidd","doi":"10.1136/ebnurs-2022-103568","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"10.1136/ebnurs-2022-103568 Introduction Mixed methods research is becoming increasingly popular given the benefit of combining quantitative and qualitative data to explore phenomena. Q methodology combines qualitative and quantitative techniques to study subjectivity. Despite its recent popularity, Q methodology was originally developed in the 1930s by William Stephenson, a physicist and psychologist. Stephenson worked with psychologist and statistician Charles Spearman (of Spearman correlation coefficient and factor analysis fame); Stephenson saw the need to explore the subjective opinion, combining it with the rigour of statistical factor analysis, thus Q methodology was born. Q methodology is being increasingly used to explore views on a range of topics in healthcare from mental healthcare to dentistry. This paper sets out the key characteristics of Q methodology to help nurse researchers better understand the method and terminology, plus we provide practical advice about how to apply Q in nursing and health services research.","PeriodicalId":12178,"journal":{"name":"Evidence Based Journals","volume":"70 46","pages":"77 - 78"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Evidence Based Journals","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1136/ebnurs-2022-103568","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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10.1136/ebnurs-2022-103568 Introduction Mixed methods research is becoming increasingly popular given the benefit of combining quantitative and qualitative data to explore phenomena. Q methodology combines qualitative and quantitative techniques to study subjectivity. Despite its recent popularity, Q methodology was originally developed in the 1930s by William Stephenson, a physicist and psychologist. Stephenson worked with psychologist and statistician Charles Spearman (of Spearman correlation coefficient and factor analysis fame); Stephenson saw the need to explore the subjective opinion, combining it with the rigour of statistical factor analysis, thus Q methodology was born. Q methodology is being increasingly used to explore views on a range of topics in healthcare from mental healthcare to dentistry. This paper sets out the key characteristics of Q methodology to help nurse researchers better understand the method and terminology, plus we provide practical advice about how to apply Q in nursing and health services research.
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