Table 2.
Theme counts
| Theme | # of Passages* | # of Documents** |
| - Recovery at home | 48 | 5 |
| - Pain control*** | 10 | 3 |
| - Recovery in hospital | 21 | 5 |
| - Post-surgical appearance | 20 | 5 |
| - Emotional impact of surgery | 18 | 5 |
| - Coping*** | 12 | 4 |
| - Impact on activities | 14 | 4 |
| - Instrumentation*** | 11 | 4 |
| - School | 13 | 4 |
| - Social interactions*** | 13 | 4 |
| - Friends*** | 11 | 2 |
| - Making the decision to have surgery | 11 | 4 |
| - Being in the operating room | 8 | 2 |
| - Future worries | 7 | 2 |
* # of Passages is the number of times that each theme was coded across all documents.
** # of Documents defined as the number of focus groups and interviews (max of 5) in which the theme emerged.
*** Some themes were grouped together when discussed here as they are inter-related; however each theme was coded (and counted) independently.