Supporting best practice in reflexive thematic analysis reporting in <i>Palliative Medicine</i>: A review of published research and introduction to the <i>Reflexive Thematic Analysis Reporting Guidelines</i> (RTARG)
The Reflexive Thematic Analysis Reporting Guidelines (the RTARG) are developed, informed by this review, other reviews the authors have done and their values and experience as qualitative researchers, to support qualitative researchers in producing coherent and reflexively open reports of reflexive thematic analysis.
Abstract
Methodological incoherence and a lack of transparency are common problems in reflexive thematic analysis research published in <i>Palliative Medicine</i>. Coherence can be facilitated by researchers and reviewers striving to be <i>knowing</i> - thoughtful, deliberative, reflexive and theoretically aware - practitioners and appraisers of reflexive thematic analysis and developing an understanding of the diversity within the thematic analysis family of methods.