Qualitative research in health care is an increasingly complex research field, particularly when doing phenomenology. In nursing and midwifery, qualitative approaches dealing with the lived experiences of patients, families and professionals are necessary.

When looking through phenomenology articles in human science and philosophy journals, we may be excused to get the impression that they offer an inconsistent array of phenomenology publications. In this article, we describe three simple but helpful distinctions

This article distills the core principles of a phenomenological research design and, by means of a specific study, illustrates the phenomenological methodology. After a brief overview of the developments of phenomenology, the research paradigm of

Qualitative research approach is overwhelmingly dominated by positivist-driven quantitative approach in studies published on medical education journals. Evidence shows, however, there is no consensuses among scholars whether or not qualitative approach

Background and aim: Descriptive phenomenology is widely used in social science research as a method to explore and describe the lived experience of individuals. It is a philosophy and a scientific method and has undertaken many variations as it has