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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Health Commun. 2010;15(Suppl 2):126–145. doi: 10.1080/10810730.2010.499983

Table 2.

Example of coding scheme and application of codes to interviewee responses

Video Text Coding scheme: “gist” category Example of interviewees statement coded in this category Coding scheme: specific subcategory Example of interviewee statement coded in this subcategory
About seventy percent of colon cancer occurs in people older than 60 years of age. Most colon cancer occurs in older people. Colon cancer…occurs in the latter years. 70% of colon cancer occurs in people older than 60 None
Up to 30, 40 percent of individuals over age 60 have them [polyps]. Polyps are common in older people None 30 to 40% of people older than 60 have polyps. The older we get, especially after 60, 30 to 40% of us do have polyps.
35% of the population has polyps [inaccurate due reference to “the population” rather than people over age 60]