Nitel Araştırmaların Rapor Edilmesi: COREQ Kontrol Listesinin Türkçe Uyarlaması

Abstract

The aim of this study is to adapt the Consolidated Criteria for Reporting Qualitative Research (COREQ) into Turkish. The COREQ checklist is used to determine the key points in reporting qualitative research. It consists of thirty-two items under three domains: research team and reflexivity, study design, and analysis and findings. Today, the COREQ are used by many academic journals for reporting qualitative research. Three researchers (3rd, 4th, and 5th authors) translated the COREQ into Turkish independently of each other. The final version of the translation was decided with a consensus among the authors. Then, an independent expert back translated the criteria and examined the compatibility between the original and translated versions. In order to evaluate the reproducibility of the Turkish version and to ensure they are understood correctly by the researchers, 2 researchers (1st and 2nd authors) examined 20 articles which used qualitative research methods. The agreement between the researchers was analyzed using the inter-rater agreement percentage for each criterion. The agreement was also evaluated using the Bland-Altman method, the intra-class correlation coefficient (ICC), and the total number of reported criteria. According to the analysis, the agreement between the researchers was significant. Additionally, the scores of the examined articles range between 3 and 19. The average score of the articles was approximately 12.15. There is no article that fully meets all the COREQ criteria. The Turkish version of the COREQ could be a guide for researchers, authors, reviewers, journal editors, and readers.