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Oct 29, 2024 · A "Meta-narrative review is one of an emerging menu of new approaches to qualitative and mixed-method systematic review. A meta-narrative review seeks to illuminate a heterogeneous topic area by highlighting the contrasting and complementary ways in which researchers have studied the same or a similar topic" (Wong et al, 2013).
A meta-narrative review seeks to explore and make sense of contradictions and tensions within the literature. A meta-narrative review maps how a certain topic is understood in distinct ways, conducts a focused search to describe and compare narratives, and then seeks to make sense of how such narratives are interpreted across different disciplines or historical contexts, as part of the analysis. 9
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In all, we recruited 33 individuals from 25 organizations in six countries. These comprised researchers in public or population health researchers (5); evidence synthesis (5); health services research (8); international development (2); education (2); and also research methodologists (6), publishing (1), nursing (2) and policy and decision making (...
These publication standards are intended to help researchers, authors, journal editors and policy and decision makers to know and understand what should be reported in the write-up of a meta-narrative review. They are not intended to provide detailed guidance on how to conduct such a review; for this we direct interested readers to other publicatio...
The layout of this document has drawn on previous methodological publications and in particular on the 'Explanations and Elaborations' document of the PRISMA statement . Each item is followed by an example drawn from published reviews and a rationale for its inclusion. The purpose of the example text is to illustrate how an item might be reported i...
- Geoff Wong, Trish Greenhalgh, Gill Westhorp, Jeanette Buckingham, Ray Pawson
- 2013
For example, a meta-narrative review involves narrative synthesis to make sense of different narratives about a chosen topic. 5 A critical narrative review involves interpretive analysis that compares a field's theoretical understanding of a topic with existing literature on the same topic from a different discipline. 6, 7. Strengths and ...
Jan 29, 2013 · Meta-narrative reviews. Meta-narrative reviews 'look historically at how particular research traditions have unfolded over time and shaped the kind of questions being asked and the methods used to answer them' [6, 7]. They examine the range of approaches to studying an issue, interpret and create an account of the development of these separate ...
- David Gough
- d.gough@ioe.ac.uk
- 2013
Critical interpretive synthesis and meta-study look at differences in theory or in socio-economic context. Critical interpretive synthesis, like meta-narrative, also explores epistemological orientation. Meta-narrative is unique in concerning itself with disciplinary paradigm (i.e. the story of the discipline as it progresses).
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The best reviews synthesize studies to draw broad theoretical conclusions about what a literature means, linking theory to evidence and evidence to theory. This guide describes how to plan, conduct, organize, and present a systematic review of quantitative (meta-analysis) or qualitative (narrative review, meta-synthesis) information.
