Abstract Introduction Narrative reviews (NRs) provide contextual knowledge critical to
effective understanding of education processes yet remain plagued by concerns over bias …

As Internet research grows in popularity, attention to the ethics of studying online content is
crucial to ensuring ethical diligence and appropriateness. Over recent years, ethical …

Introduction: Adolescent girls and young women aged 15 to 24 years have some of the
highest HIV incidence rates globally, with girls two to four times more likely to be living with …

Qualitative methods are underutilized in health intervention evaluation, and overshadowed
by the importance placed on randomized controlled trials (RCTs). This Commentary …

Background Patients' stories of their illnesses help bridge the divide between patients and
providers, facilitating more humane medical care. Illness narratives have been classified into …

The diagnostic process promises a label that validates patients' embodied experiences and
a road map for living with and treating illness. Drawing on 31 qualitative interviews with …

With the rise and rise of social media, today's communication practices are significantly
different from those of even the recent past. A key change has been a shift to very small …

In the last few decades, the analytical scope of narrative studies has widened from a sole
focus on “prototypical” narratives of personal experience to a wide variety of narrative …

Pet ownership provides a unique relationship that is beneficial to many aspects of the pet
owner's life, including mental health and companionship. Mental health and social isolation …

The turn to literary texts and discourses in this book is one that has been, in some sense, in
the offing for some years now, with concerns over the aesthetic, narrative and …