Towards a method for synthesizing diverse evidence using hypotheses as common language

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• 作者：F. van Wesel ; H. R. Boeije ; E. Alisic
• 关键词：Directional hypotheses ; Evidence synthesis ; Meta ; analysis ; Mixed ; research synthesis ; Qualitative synthesis
• 刊名：Quality & Quantity
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：November 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：49
• 期：6
• 页码：2237-2249
• 全文大小：454 KB
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• 作者单位：F. van Wesel (1)
  H. R. Boeije (2)
  E. Alisic (3)
  
  1. Department of Educational Neuroscience & Department of Methodology, Faculty of Psychology and Education, VU University Amsterdam, Van der Boechorststraat 1, 1081 BT, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  2. Department of Methodology and Statistics, Utrecht University, Padualaan 14 Room C.115, 3584 CH, Utrecht, The Netherlands
  3. Monash Injury Research Institute, Monash University, Building 70, Melbourne, VIC, 3800, Australia
  
• 刊物类别：Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
• 刊物主题：Social Sciences
  Methodology of the Social Sciences
  Social Sciences
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-7845

文摘

Combining the findings obtained by different research methods in mixed-research synthesis could potentially contribute to a broader, more diverse evidence base for interventions. In this article we focus on the methodological challenges involved in synthesizing various types of research findings. We propose a method that uses hypotheses to facilitate the comparison and integration of such different findings. The method consists of four steps: (1) synthesizing findings per source of evidence, (2) formulating a mono-method hypothesis for each source, (3) integrating the monomethod hypotheses into one overall hypothesis, and (4) evaluating, using empirical data, whether the overall hypothesis better fits the data than each of the mono-method hypotheses. Using quantitative studies, qualitative studies and experts-views in the substantive case of children and trauma, we will illustrate the proposed method. We conclude that the method provides a viable perspective for constructing an elaborate model that captures the knowledge from complementary sources. Keywords Directional hypotheses Evidence synthesis Meta-analysis Mixed-research synthesis Qualitative synthesis