Table 1.

The Seven Fragments of the Lifeworld Used as Heuristics

Fragment	Meaning a	How Used in Analysis of Debriefing
Project	How does this affect the activities to which a person is committed and which they value?	What impact does placebo debriefing have on participants’ goals for living with their IBS (seeking to cure/manage/alleviate it)? What do participants value about the trial and how does this relate to placebo debriefing?
Embodiment	How does this relate to the person’s feelings about their body?	How does placebo debriefing relate to participants’ sensations during treatment?
Selfhood	What does this mean for the person’s social identity? What sense of agency, presence, and voice do they have in this situation?	How does placebo debriefing relate to participant’s sense of self, their sense of agency or patient-hood in the trial?
Sociality	What does this mean for the person’s relations with other people?	What does placebo debriefing mean for the participant’s interactions with trial personnel and members of their wider social networks?
Temporality	What is the person’s sense of time, duration, biography related to this situation?	What does placebo debriefing mean for participants’ future plans for managing their IBS?
Discourse	What terms are used to describe the situation, what discourses are invoked?	What discourses are invoked to describe placebo debriefing? How is placebo debriefing managed in conversation?
Spatiality	How is a person’s sense of place affected by the situation?	Not prominent in this analysis

^aDescriptions adapted from Ashworth (2003).