Assessing and Achieving Quality in Qualitative Research: Clues for Researchers in Training.

This article deals with the particularities of the quality of qualitative research, under the double lens of valuing it and ensuring it. While achieving the quality of qualitative research concerns only those who have opted for this methodology, assessing it is everyone's business because researchers in training will encounter, in the literature reviews, qualitative studies on which they must reflect and estimate their quality. Appreciating the quality of a research work is a complex activity as it is situated within a context and conducted by individuals who use any of the means available to do so.

Effectiveness of nursing interventions in the prevention of falls in older adults in the community and in health care settings: A systematic review and meta-analysis of RCT.

Objective: To estimate the effectiveness of fall prevention programs in people aged 65 years and older involving nursing professionals.

Methods: We included available full-text randomized clinical trials on nurse-led prevention of falls in the community in people over 65 years of age and reporting the incidence of such falls. An extensive search was performed in 14 databases covering the period 2016-2018 for publications in English, French, Portuguese and Spanish.

Living normally without being oneself: A qualitative study on the experience of living with advanced chronic kidney disease.

The aim of the study was to describe and analyze the experience of people with advanced chronic kidney disease. Chronic kidney disease is a growing public health problem that is on the increase worldwideThe experience of living with this illness is paradoxical, as it can include feelings of dependent autonomy, distant connection, abnormal normalcy, and uncertain hope. Every chronic disease involves a biographical alteration from the onset.

[The care in the prevention of falls in elderly people: Meta-summary of qualitative articles].

Objective: To summarize the qualitative evidence on the role of care providers in the prevention of falls of persons over 65 years of age in centres and in the community.

Design: Meta-summary of qualitative evidence following the aggregation method.

Data Sources: Extensive manual search of 16 databases (CINAHL, Pubmed/Medline, Embase, PsycInfo, Cochrane Library, PeDRO, Opengrey (Reports), Cuiden, Cuidatge, Enfispo, Medes, Lilacs, Teseo, Dissertation and Thesis Global and Ibecs), in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese; no time limit.

Managing and keeping control: A qualitative synthesis of nursing and care staff strategies to prevent older people from falling.

Aim: To better understand formal care providers' role in fall prevention.

Design: Qualitative synthesis as part of an integrative review.

Data Sources: Fifteen electronic databases were consulted with the time limit being December 2017.

[Fall prevention in older people and their families: a qualitative synthesis].

Objective: To analyse and synthesize the evidence on fall prevention of people older than 65 years and their family care providers METHOD: Qualitative synthesis, which is a part of a convergent systematic integrative review. Forty-one qualitative studies were retained for full text scrutiny. Nine studies on family care providers were selected for this synthesis.

Situating Preventive Action in a Moral and Clinical Context: A Qualitative Synthesis on Fall Prevention.

The prevention of falls is an integral part of the safety culture of health institutions with mandatory fall prevention programs set within health care facilities. Care providers are key in identifying the risks of falls and in implementing strategic actions to prevent them. With the aim to better understand practices of fall prevention, we conducted a synthesis of qualitative evidence on care providers' practices to prevent older people from falling in health care facilities.

[To recuperate and preserve the relative: Family caregivers strategies to manage mental health crisis].

Aim: To know and understand the strategies carried out by the relatives of people with mental health problems in the care of their sick relatives.

Design: Qualitative study SETTING: Mental Health Service (SESCAM) and Social Health Centres of Castilla-La Mancha region (Spain).

Participants: Twenty-four adult family members who live and care for a family member who suffers a mental health crisis.

To manage a complex dependency: The experience of caregiving after a fall.

Aim: To understand the experience of family members of an older relative who has had a fall which required medical attention.

Background: There is abundant bibliography in caregiving, but little is known about the problems faced by caregivers and how family members cope when their older relative has a fall.

Design: Qualitative study that used a symbolic interactionism perspective.

"Falls prevention among older people and care providers: protocol for an integrative review".

Aim: To review the evidence about the role of care providers in fall prevention in older adults aged ≥ 65 years, this includes their views, strategies, and approaches on falls prevention and effectiveness of nursing interventions.

Background: Some fall prevention programmes are successfully implemented and led by nurses and it is acknowledged the vital role they play in developing plans for fall prevention. Nevertheless, there has not been a systematic review of the literature that describes this role and care providers' views on fall's prevention initiatives.

Material world and social recognition: Nursing care in Spain (1855-1955).

Objective: This study sought to recognize the active and symbolic role played by the objects from the material world for nursing care in Spain between 1855 and 1955.

Methodology: This was a historical study using procedures from founded theory. The information sources were eight handbooks for the formation of healthcare professionals published in Spain, during the period of interest.

[The experience of women care cargivers with chronic conditions of dependent relatives].

Objective: To describe the experience of women caregivers with chronic conditions who care for a dependent relative.

Design: Qualitative study based on constructivist grounded theory.

Location: Study conducted on two Health Areas urban of the Community of Madrid.

Women's self-management of chronic illnesses in the context of caregiving: a grounded theory study.

Aims And Objectives: Uncover how women self-manage their own chronic illness while taking care of a dependent relative.

Background: International policies place special emphasis in promoting interventions addressed to control, prevent and care for people with chronic health conditions. Self-management is a crucial part of this care.

Access to information in qualitative research. A matter of care.

In this article attention is focused on access to data; a process that tends to be taken for granted and which in practice takes time and energy from the person who investigates. Access implies a process of contacting key people in institutions; negotiating with them, being invited to obtain data, achieving formal permission, and--finally--constructing relationships with the participants. Access to data is negotiated, trust is constructed in relationships with study participants, and data is obtained.

How women caregivers deal with their own long-term illness: a qualitative study.

Aim: To explore the strategies used by women caregivers to deal with their own chronic health conditions.

Background: Providing care has a negative impact on the physical and mental health of caregivers. When caregivers suffer chronic health problems, it increases the burden of caring, making them more vulnerable and less likely to look after their own health.

Caring to achieve the maximum independence possible: a synthesis of qualitative evidence on older adults' adaptation to dependency.

Aims And Objectives: To understand the process of adaptation to dependency in older adults and their families.

Background: Dependency and family care giving are attracting the attention of policymakers, service providers and researchers.

Design: An interpretative synthesis of qualitative studies has been conducted.

"Turning to one's own world": escape mechanisms employed by immigrant caregivers in Spain for relieving the burden of care.

Purpose: Although past research has focused on the coping strategies of family caregivers, how immigrant caregivers cope with the demands of caregiving remains unknown. This study examines the strategies immigrant caregivers use to relieve the burden of care.

Method: A qualitative study based on 17 immigrant women caregivers using purposive and snowball sampling was done.

[Reflexivity: a critical issue in qualitative research].

Reflexivity is an English term that Spanish speaking people have to assign a technical meaning. Reflexivity expresses the conscience of researchers conscience and refers to their connection with the study's situation. It is a process by which researchers step back to critically exam the effect they have on the study and the impact of their interactions with participants.

Strategies for the relief of burden in advanced dementia care-giving.

Aim: This paper is a report of a study conducted to uncover the strategies that women caregivers of relatives with advanced dementia use to rest from care-giving.

Background: Respite consists of activities and situations that briefly take caregivers away from their care-giving responsibilities. Qualitative studies are focusing on respite as an outcome and are deepening our knowledge about the experience of caregivers' rest.

Research protocol: a synthesis of qualitative studies on the process of adaptation to dependency in elderly persons and their families.

Background: Dealing with dependency in the elderly and their families leads us to explore the life experience of those involved together with the processes of adaptation to this condition. A number of original studies have been published which, following a qualitative methodology, have dealt with both dimensions.

Objectives: 1) To present a synthesis of the qualitative evidence available on the process of adaptation to dependency in elderly persons and their families; 2) to conduct an in-depth study into the experiences and strategies developed by both to optimise their living conditions; 3) to enable standards of action/intervention to be developed in the caregiving environment.

The legitimacy of rest: conditions for the relief of burden in advanced dementia care-giving.

Aim: This paper is a report of a study conducted to identify the conditions that favour the relief of the burden of female caregivers of relatives with advanced dementia.

Background: Respite services are a response to caregivers' needs for rest. Although they are wanted and needed services, caregivers do not always have access to or use them.

["Feeling tranquil": the experience of rest among the caregivers' of relatives with advanced dementia].

Objective: To understand caregivers' experience of rest.

Method: We performed a qualitative study guided by grounded theory procedures. This study forms part of a wider study about burden relief in vulnerable situations.

[Immigrant caregivers: characteristics of the care provided to dependent elders].

In Spain, care in dependency has traditionally fallen to family members but this situation is changing. The existence of a model based on the family's contribution used to enable dependent elders to remain at home; however, social changes such as the crisis of the informal caregiving system, which has been extensively discussed in the literature is leading to the collapse of this situation. In an attempt to respond to this crisis, society has resorted to contracting immigrant women to carry out family care.

[Where to begin?: the qualitative research question].

A qualitative research question reflects the researcher's paradigm and should be consistent with the proposed research method. A research question implies engaging in a process that defines the research area, subject, question, and place of the study. Because this process is interactive and changes during the course of the investigation, the beginnings are necessarily provisional.