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What is Qualitative Evidence Synthesis? What role does it play in #healthcare? See below for a brief #tweetorial from @Catrin_notts for #JBImethodology month 1/10

#Qualitative evidence synthesis seeks to provide an understanding of meanings, practices and processes associated with social experience, behaviour and culture 2/10

Qualitative evidence synthesis involves the identification and synthesis of qualitative studies to provide insights related to a focused question 3/10

In #healthcare, qualitative evidence synthesis can provide important evidence on the barriers and facilitators of health interventions, and how people respond to, and cope with, health challenges 4/10

Qualitative evidence synthesis includes qualitative studies of any design and methodology, and can also include the qualitative findings from mixed methods studies 5/10

It is important to critically appraise the studies in a qualitative evidence synthesis to ensure that the review process and findings take account of methodological strengths and weaknesses and study context 6/10

There are many different approaches to qualitative evidence synthesis. The @JBIEBHC approach is meta-aggregation. This involves identifying the findings within each study and organising these into categories and synthesised findings based on similarities in meaning 7/10

@JBIEBHC has developed an innovative approach for assessment of confidence in the synthesised findings from a qualitative evidence synthesis (CONQUAL). Synthesised findings are evaluated using overarching assessments of dependability & credibility jbi.global/critical-appra… 8/10

Detailed guidance on undertaking a qualitative evidence synthesis and developing a protocol can be found in the JBI Manual on Evidence Synthesis synthesismanual.jbi.global 9/10

@JBIEBHC also has a fantastic software programme called JBI SUMARI to help with every stage of the qualitative systematic review process sumari.jbi.global 10/10