Appraising Qualitative Research

Article Number

Author and Date

Evidence Type

Sample, Sample size, setting

Findings that help in answering the EBP Questions

Observable Measures

Limitations

Evidence Level, Quality

I

Lidgate, Li, and Lindenmeyer (2018)

Qualitative study

The targeted population are the parents and the informal caregivers. About 14 participants i.e. 7 parents and 7 informal caregivers were put through a four in-depth focus groups. The settings were in Birmingham and Edinburgh with 1 parent group and 1 informal caregiver group in each city.

The study is showing that obesity among children is linked to childhood obesity and informal childcare for children of ages 0-5 years.

Education to the informal care is assisting in supporting parents and preventing obesity among children during their care. The study is helping in the generation of the rich insights into the potential components and the strategies that can be used as the future interventions that targets the informal caregivers, parents, and children of ages 0-5 years old. The study is important to the parents, caregivers, and the society as being the practical and the emotional support for the parents and the caregivers.

The observable measures are the reported incidence of the childhood obesity as a result of the implementation of the informal care. The successful implementation of the informal care leads to the support to parents and prevention of obesity among children.

The limitation of the study is associates with few number of the study participants due to the project limited timeframe. This therefore makes it essential to make an interpretation of the data with some limitations.

VI. Qualitative study that involves gathering the data on human behavior to understand why and how the decision are made for example the authors performed the qualitative study with parents as well as informal carers to explore their experience in giving or receiving informal childcare for British children aged 0-5 years; the perceived reasons of the relationship between the informal childcare and the childhood obesity; and the most preferred intervention thoughts as well as the delivery approaches for the prevention of the obesity amongst children under informal care.

The quality of this article is based on its reliability for example the authors are working in College of Medical and Dental Sciences. Meaning that they understand the field under study. The quality of the study is also related to the fact that the authors provided the rich insights into the possible components and the delivery strategies that can help in future interventions aimed at preventing and controlling child obesity.

The quality of the study is also brought by the involvement of the many researchers with mixed disciplinary background as well as experiences in data assessment process and reporting the analysis techniques as well as study outcome in a transparent manner.