Epistemological critical reflection on nursing research mixed methods
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The purpose of the use of mixed methods is to give an explanation of a phenomenon when other methods fail to reveal the nature of it.
The objective is to reflect on mixed methods from an epistemological and paradigmatic perspective of their integrated focuses.
The paradigms which sustain qualitative and quantitative research are the comprehensive and the explicative respectively. From the epistemology of research, both focuses have distinctive characteristics which can address the phenomenon of study from different routes. Moreover, a phenomenon can be studied with both focuses since they can complement each other under their sustaining paradigms.
Based on this paradigmatic reflection, and considering that there are different forms to approaching reality, it is possible to favor those designs which are complementary; each with its own sustenance and paradigmatic contribution to the understanding of the phenomenon from their perspective.
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