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Hi Both,
I am also doing a MNR for the first stage of my PhD considering maternal obesity, with a working title of:-
The makings of a modern maternal obesity epidemic: A meta-narrative review of what it means to be a woman and to be fat and pregnant.

Your email is timely as I am also having the same difficulties as yourself in finding good examples of published studies.

I  am at the data extraction and synthesis stage and I am having difficulties in interpretating the different concepts between the traditions.

Any discussions with yourselves would be gratefully received.
Kind regards

Christina
Second year PhD student, University of Central Lancashire, UK
From: Realist and Meta-narrative Evidence Synthesis: Evolving Standards <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Catherine Bateman-Steel <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 20 February 2017 23:40:25
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Subject: Re: Meta-narrative review
 
Hi Majorie,
I am also doing a MNR as the first stage of my PhD on gender equity and maternal mortality. I also tried to find good examples of published studies and found only a few that really seemed to be MNR and use the 'tradition' as the unit of analysis. I'm happy to share those I found and would be interested to see if you found any others. I'd also be happy to link up off the listserve to discuss MNR methods as I have found it quite hard to keep focused and define my methods.
All the best
Catherine

Public Health Physician and PhD student, Sydney, Australia

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On 18 Feb. 2017, at 7:29 am, Marjorie MacDonald <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Hi Folks. I know that most of the interest on this listserv has been on realist methodologies.  But RAMESES I was also about Meta-narrative review (MNR). Very little has come up in the discussion here about MNR.  I have led two CIHR-funded MNR projects in Canada, and am just waiting to hear if a third study will be funded. On one of these, we are trying to finish up our MNR on the harm reduction potential of e-cigarettes or vaping devices. The emphasis on contestations in the MNR methodology has become pretty salient in this review and we are currently now writing a paper reporting on these findings.  We have done a search looking for published examples of MNR but not too many have turned up. I wonder if anyone in this group can recommend or share any published papers in which MNR was the methodology.  Of course, we have the original studies by Greenhalgh et al, the standards and training materials,  but only a few examples of published studies. More examples would be very helpful.  Thank you so much.

 

Marjorie MacDonald

University of Victoria

Victoria, BC Canada

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