The Editorial Word: Trustworthiness.

AUDIT trails; RESEARCH personnel; TRUST; PRAXIS (Process); RESEARCH questions; EMPATHY

The editorial in the Journal of Advanced Academics discusses the importance of trustworthiness in qualitative research. It emphasizes the need for qualitative data to be rich, descriptive, and powerful, not seen as a limitation. The editorial provides guidance on elements of trustworthiness such as confirmability, credibility, dependability, and transferability, and highlights the significance of aligning trustworthiness choices with research paradigms and theoretical perspectives. It also encourages researchers to use diverse viewpoints and strategies to promote methodological integrity in qualitative research. [Extracted from the article]

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