Table 1.
Quality assessment of the qualitative studies
| Reference | Theoretical approach | Study design | Data collection | Validity | Analysis | Ethics | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.1 | 1.2 | 2.1 | 3.1 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 5.1 | 5.2 | 5.3 | 5.4 | 5.5 | 5.6 | 6.1 | |
| Bantry Whyte and Montgomery, 2015 [35] | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + |
| Phinney et al., 2016 [36] | + | + | ? | ? | + | + | + | ? | ? | + | + | + | + | + |
| Van Alphen et al., 2016 [34] | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + |
| King et al., 2017 [37] | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + |
+ yes/good; no/not good;? not sure/dubious
+ yes/good; no/not good; ? not sure/dubious
1. Theoretical approach
1.1 Is a qualitative approach appropriate? 1.2 Is the study clear in what it seeks to do?
2. Study design
2.1 How defensible/rigorous is the research design/methodology?
3. Data collection
3.1 How well was the data collection carried out?
4. Validity
4.1 Is the role of the researcher clearly described?; 4.2 Is the context clearly described?; 4.3 Were the methods reliable?
5. Analysis
5.1 Is the data analysis sufficiently rigorous?; 5.2 Are the data “rich”?; 5.3 Is the analysis reliable?; 5.4 Are the findings convincing?; 5.5 Are the findings relevant to the aims of the study?; 5.6 Are the conclusions adequate?
6. Ethics
6.1 How clear and coherent is the reporting of ethical consideration?