Similarly, synthesising data from various published qualitative studies, Germeni and Schulz 30 concluded that the boundaries between seeking and avoiding information throughout the journey of patient with cancer are often fluid; therefore, information seeking and avoidance should not be necessarily viewed as two distinct behaviours pertaining to different groups of patients.
Therefore, we chose to include a diverse set of qualitative studies encompassing various descriptions and interpretations of the CHF experience.
Methods employed included 30 mixed or triangulated social science study designs, 39 qualitative studies using various social science methods (interviews, ethnography, focus groups), 13 experimental studies (in psychology laboratories, for the most part) and 34 questionnaire-based studies, the last category mostly to gather data for social network analyses.
In the review, a number of studies addressing various qualitative characteristics were identified.
In this sense, the paper may be viewed as an interesting empirical exercise, and it also finds similarities with quantitative and qualitative studies implemented in various contexts (e.g., Heinrich, 2012; Westhoek et al., 2012; Brown and Jones, 2013; Chatellier and Guyomard 2013; Czekaj et al. 2013; Vanni and Cardillo 2013a; Cimino et al., 2014).
While the current qualitative study is unique with its primary objective of exploring youth narratives related to the orphaning experience, a number of qualitative studies exploring the various facets of the HIV/AIDS orphan phenomenon in Africa have reported secondary data which have addressed the orphan story from the youth perspective.
Various qualitative research methods were used in previous studies of immigrant travel, including focus groups [10, 56], ethnography [11], and a participatory approach [58].
Therefore, to build on the findings documented in these qualitative studies, we investigated the various concepts of individualised medicine inherent in patients' reasons for using CAM.
The aim of this study is to investigate various qualitative properties of eigenvalues and corresponding eigenfunctions of one Sturm-Liouville problem with an interior singular point.
The study also made use of various qualitative analysis methods including the KWIC method, thematic analysis, and visual analysis to obtain a clearer understanding of the research phenomenon.
