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End-user understanding of qualitative comparative analysis used within evidence synthesis: a mixed-methods study.
This study’s purpose was to identify effective approaches to communicating results from a qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) within a systematic review. Interviews with 11 end-users followed by a randomized experiment with 254 participants provided QCA results for a hypothetical review presented through three formats (text, table, and figure). The authors observed a significant different in subjective comprehension across three presentation formats, with figure and text formats scoring higher compared to the table. Overall, there were no significant different for objective comprehension. However, interpretation (a unique component of QCA results) scores among participants that received the figure format were significantly higher than scores for participants who received the text or table. No significant differences were observed in objective comprehension for configuration interpretation.
AHRQ-funded; HS026258.
Citation: Kahwati LC, Kelly BJ, Johnson M .
End-user understanding of qualitative comparative analysis used within evidence synthesis: a mixed-methods study.
Res Synth Methods 2023 Mar;14(2):180-92. doi: 10.1002/jrsm.1602.
Keywords: Comparative Effectiveness, Evidence-Based Practice, Research Methodologies