TY - JOUR
AU1 - Morse, Janice M.
AB - 576699 QHRXXX10.1177/1049732315576699Qualitative Health ResearchMorse research-article2015 Editorial Qualitative Health Research 2015, Vol. 25(5) 587 –588 © The Author(s) 2015 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1049732315576699 qhr.sagepub.com Janice M. Morse Saturation is the most frequently touted guarantee of qual- consider how we should define saturation and determine itative rigor offered by authors to reviewers and readers, the characteristics of research in which it has been attained. yet it is the one we know least about. I was once in a dis- Can we recognize saturated research when we read it? cussion among seasoned researchers, and they said, “Hey Jan, you know you can never reach saturation, because What Is Saturation? there are always new examples!” Unfortunately, this state- ment reveals a very limited understanding of saturation, Saturation is the building of rich data within the process analytic processes, and goals of inquiry, for we do not of inquiry, by attending to scope and replication, hence, saturate particular details of individual events and random in turn, building the theoretical aspects of inquiry. incidents. Rather, we saturate characteristics within cate- gories that emerge as significant in the process of analysis, Scope and the more abstract the characteristics, the more diverse the examples may 
TI - “Data Were Saturated . . . ”
JF - Qualitative Health Research
DO - 10.1177/1049732315576699
DA - 2015-05-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/data-were-saturated-8vdY0pM9mg
SP - 587
EP - 588
VL - 25
IS - 5
DP - DeepDyve
ER -