Table 5 Qualitative and quantitative methodological competence (N = 175)
From: The use of empirical research in bioethics: a survey of researchers in twelve European countries
Expert | Familiar | Beginner | Never used | Don’t know | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
n | % | N | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | |
Qualitative methods | ||||||||||
Thematic Analysis (n = 144) | 6 | 4.2 | 84 | 58.3 | 22 | 15.3 | 19 | 13.2 | 13 | 9.0 |
Content Analysis (n = 137) | 8 | 5.8 | 91 | 66.4 | 14 | 10.2 | 17 | 12.4 | 7 | 50.1 |
Grounded Theory (n = 130) | 7 | 5.4 | 64 | 49.2 | 19 | 14.6 | 28 | 21.5 | 12 | 9.2 |
Phenomenology (n = 118) | 3 | 2.5 | 29 | 24.6 | 18 | 15.3 | 51 | 43.2 | 17 | 14.4 |
Narrative Analysis (n = 116) | 4 | 3.4 | 41 | 35.3 | 13 | 11.2 | 48 | 41.4 | 10 | 8.6 |
Discourse Analysis (n = 115) | 4 | 3.5 | 35 | 33.0 | 15 | 13.0 | 47 | 40.9 | 14 | 12.2 |
Quantitative methods | ||||||||||
Descriptive statistics (n = 111) | 6 | 5.4 | 72 | 73.8 | 18 | 16.2 | 3 | 2.7 | 2 | 1.8 |
Inferential statistics (n = 98) | 2 | 2.0 | 53 | 54.1 | 25 | 25.5 | 5 | 5.1 | 13 | 13.3 |