Table 1.
Quality assessment of qualitative studies (CASP).
| Reference | Study Design | Method | Results | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
| Barrado-Martín et al. [54] | + | + | − | + | + | ? | + | + | + | + |
| Barrado-Martín et al. [55] | + | + | + | + | + | ? | + | + | + | + |
| Donkers, van der Veen, Vernooij-Dassen, Nijhuis-van der Sanden and Graff [50] | + | + | + | − | + | ? | + | − | − | − |
| Hancox et al. [56] | + | + | + | − | + | ? | + | + | + | + |
| MacAndrew et al. [57] | + | + | + | + | + | ? | + | − | + | + |
+ yes/good; − no/not good; ? cannot tell. 1. Was there a clear statement of the aims of the research? 2. Is a qualitative methodology appropriate? 3. Was the research design appropriate to address the aims of the research? 4. Was the recruitment strategy appropriate to the aims of the research? 5. Were the data collected in a way that addressed the research issue? 6. Has the relationship between researcher and participants been adequately considered? 7. Have ethical issues been taken into consideration? 8. Was the data analysis sufficiently rigorous? 9. Is there a clear statement of findings? 10. Is the research valuable?