Table 1.

Working definition of first-order, second-order and third-order constructs (taken from Malpass et al³¹ drawing on work from Noblit and Hare³⁵)

Reprinted from Social Science & Medicine. Malpass A, Shaw A, Sharp D, et al. “Medication career” or “Moral career”? The two sides of managing antidepressants: A meta-ethnography of patients' experience of antidepressants. Soc Sci Med 2009;68:154–68.³¹ Copyright (2015), with permission from Elsevier (www.journals.elsevier.com/social-science-and-medicine).