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The main difference between QD and interpretive description lies in the data analysis, where interpretative description goes beyond mere description and aims to provide an in-depth conceptual description and understanding of a phenomenon, and QD stays closer to the data obtained.
The study was designed according to the qualitative method of interpretative description and implied two sequential phases of data collection.
Using qualitative interpretative description, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 24 subjects – 12 young patients diagnosed with severe OI and 12 of their parents.
Interpretative description is a bottom-up approach of research particularly useful when exploring a new or neglected phenomena, about which scarce knowledge has been developed.
Assessors' dependency on a person's interpretative description is a serious threat to the validity of assessments of reflection because they have to judge selective descriptions without being able to verify their adequacy.
We opted for interpretative description [ 23] which examines a "clinical phenomenon with the goal of identifying themes and patterns among subjective perspectives, while accounting for variations between individuals" [ 24], p. 1285).
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Qualitative data were collected from these figures via face-to-face interviews so as to understand the experiences and perceptions of those involved in large projects and to gain their interpretative descriptions of their experiences.
This skill, she contends, is one that must be developed, and one to which the engagement with literature might effectively contribute by providing "close and careful interpretative descriptions" of imagined scenarios that enable emotional involvement untainted by distorting self-interest (1990, 46 8).
Quantitative data were analysed using proportions, means and interpretative descriptions.
With increasing expertise, assessors typically became more efficient in obtaining a good representation of performance and provide richer and more interpretative descriptions of trainee performance.
It implies a thinking process only accessible to the reflecting person and hence only observable by assessors through that person's interpretative descriptions.
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