The aim of this article is to provide practical strategies for maintaining methodological rigour in executing a virtual qualitative study. Strategies are based on evidence from existing research about virtual qualitative methods and on the strategies used by the authors to convert a planned in-person qualitative, grounded theory study to an entirely virtual grounded theory study during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study began in-person in September 2019 and was converted to virtual in March 2020. Virtual data collection was completed in September 2020.

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虚拟世界中定性探究的实用策略

本文的目的是提供实用的策略，以在执行虚拟定性研究时保持方法的严谨性。策略基于现有关于虚拟定性方法的研究证据，以及作者在 COVID-19 大流行期间将计划中的面对面定性、扎根理论研究转变为完全虚拟的扎根理论研究的策略。该研究于 2019 年 9 月开始面对面研究，并于 2020 年 3 月转换为虚拟研究。虚拟数据收集于 2020 年 9 月完成。