Table III.
Author (year) | 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. Was 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. How valuable is the research?* |
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Andrews et al. (2017) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | High |
Edward and Evers (2001) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Moderate |
Hu et al. (2013) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | High |
Knapp et al. (2019) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Moderate |
McFadden et al. (2014) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | High |
Ohly et al. (2019) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | High |
Palar et al. (2019) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | High |
Pettigrew et al. (2017) | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Moderate |
Savoie Roskos et al. (2017) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Moderate |
Saxe-Custack et al. (2018) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Moderate |
Tobey et al. (2019) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Moderate |
White et al. (2018) | No | Yes | Can’t tell | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Moderate |
*The reviewers subjectively decided whether the research was of low, moderate, or high value after discussing the contribution the study made to existing knowledge and whether the results of the study would help answer the research question(s).