An Update on the Progress of the Revisited Qualitative Approach: Hyperinflation of Qualitative Papers in Iran

Zarghi, Nazila; Mazloom, Seyed Reza; Karbasi Motlagh, Maryam; Mirhaghi, Amir

doi:10.22038/fmej.2025.80856.1597

An Update on the Progress of the Revisited Qualitative Approach: Hyperinflation of Qualitative Papers in Iran

Document Type : Letter to Editor

Authors

¹ Medical Sciences Education Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran

² Education Development Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

10.22038/fmej.2025.80856.1597

Abstract

As qualitative research is designed to reveal a range of behavior of the target participants as well as the driving perceptions concerning either specific topics or particular issues, they hold unique positions in health care research especially when they relate to human sciences such as sociology, psychology,and etc. (1). Considering all attractive and positive aspects of qualitative approaches in the positivistic end of the research spectrum and regarding the fact that a researcher should have a sense of plausibility during designing and conducting a study, sometimes a wrong pathway of qualitative research is presented especially in postgraduate programs. The pathology is rooted deeply in the poor relation between field problems and research especially in qualitative studies. The graduates, and researchers make the chains of this ineffective research pathway. Qualitative studies may be easily be disconnected from field problems and, so, not be used in clinical situations.

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