Table 2.

Thematic synthesis

Stage of Thematic Synthesis	Description of actions
Stage One: Line-by-Line Coding	Line-by-line coding of results was completed in NVivo. This process resulted in a total of 153 initial codes
Stage Two: Development of Descriptive Themes	Codes created during stage one were then reviewed for similarities and differences and were organised into groups. New codes were created to represent the grouped codes creating our descriptive themes., resulting in the creation of 16 of descriptive themes
Stage Three: Development of Analytical Themes	Researchers applied descriptive themes to answer the initial review questions. Five overarching analytical themes were created as a result of this process