2.6. Rigour
Validity, reliability, and generalizability are considered
as trustworthiness in qualitative research (Golafshani,
2003). Validity in this study involved getting the right story
from the right participants in relation to parenting/
caregiving burn-injured children. The emerging categories
and processes represented the data. Reliability was
addressed by preserving linguistic and cultural connotations
in participants’ accounts during the translation
process. Two interviews were back translated to ensure
that the meaning and cultural connotations were not lost
in translation. Once the code categories evolved and the
analysis process was validated, further analysis and
conceptualization was done with the Tamil transcripts.
Maintaining methodological coherence through selecting
appropriate participants, collecting rich data, relating
sampling, data collection and data analysis, and theorizing
(Morse et al., 2002) further ensured rigour