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- A systematic review analyzed 371 articles from MEDLINE and PsycINFO published between 2000 and 2014, focusing on how qualitative methods were used to create questionnaire items.
- Key findings included an increase in published articles over the years, with individual interviews and focus groups as the predominant methods for item generation, but no innovative approaches emerging.
- Additionally, the review highlighted poor documentation of content analysis methods, limited expert involvement in item generation, and a majority of articles conducting further testing of items with relevant populations, indicating a need for better reporting practices in qualitative research.
Article Abstract
A systematic review of articles using qualitative methods to generate questionnaire items identified in MEDLINE and PsycINFO from 2000 to 2014 was carried out. Articles were analyzed for (a) year of publication and journal domain, (b) qualitative data collection methods, (c) method of data content analysis, (d) professional experts' input in item generation, and (e) debriefing of the newly developed items. In total, 371 articles were included and results showed (a) an acceleration of published articles, (b) individual interviews and focus groups were common ways of generating items and no emergent approach was identified, (c) the content analysis was usually not described (43% of articles), (d) experts were involved in eliciting concepts in less than a third of articles, (e) 61% of articles involved a step of further submission of newly developed items to the population of interest. This review showed an insufficient reporting of qualitative methods used to generate new questionnaires despite previous recommendations.
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