A methodological debate within social pharmacy is ongoing regarding how to apply a qualitative approach. This paper emanates from a workshop at the Nordic Social Pharmacy Conference in 2019, named ‘How do we know it's good? A workshop on quality criteria in qualitative social and clinical pharmacy research’, that addressed this debate. The aim of this paper is twofold (1) to present the main key points raised during the workshop and (2) based on these inputs to contribute to the ongoing discussion on qualitative methodology within social pharmacy research. This paper starts with what was discussed at the workshop and further elaborated are some of the challenges with conducting qualitative research within social pharmacy. These include methodological and disciplinary competence and insecurity, reflections on the consequences of that many social pharmacy researchers come from a natural science background and how this (possibly) shapes the practice of qualitative research within the field. For example, how concepts like transparency and saturation, together with checklists and quality criteria are understood and used. Finally, we make suggestions for the next step for qualitative research in social pharmacy.

社会药学内部正在进行关于如何应用定性方法的方法论辩论。这篇论文来自 2019 年北欧社会药学会议上的一个研讨会，名为“我们怎么知道它是好的？一个关于定性社会和临床药学研究中的质量标准的研讨会，讨论了这一争论。本文的目的有两个：（1）提出研讨会期间提出的主要要点；（2）基于这些意见，为社会药学研究中正在进行的定性方法论的讨论做出贡献。本文从研讨会上讨论的内容开始，并进一步阐述了在社会药学中进行定性研究的一些挑战。这些包括方法和纪律能力以及不安全感，许多社会药学研究人员的后果来自自然科学背景以及这（可能）如何影响该领域内定性研究的实践。例如，如何理解和使用透明度和饱和度等概念以及清单和质量标准。最后，我们为下一步社会药学的定性研究提出建议。