Table 1.

Stages of the analysis

STAGES	TASKS COMPLETED
Stage one: Transcribing and Organising the interview text	This involved the transcription of interview data already collected. This stage helps to organise already collected data into texts, which gave much impetus to the preliminary reading and interpretation of texts to facilitate coding.
Stage two: Organising patterns of experiences	At this stage, through preliminary reading and interpretation of the texts to facilitate coding, patterns of experiences can be listed such that all data that relate to the already classified patterns are identified.
Stage three: Combining all related patterns into sub-themes	This stage helps to catalogue all related identifiable patterns into sub-themes. Sub-themes that emerge from the informants’ stories are pieced together to form a comprehensive picture of their collective experiences.
Stage Four: Developing Themes	This stage involves grouping sub-themes into themes. In developing themes, further elaborations of themes were made by building valid arguments for choosing the themes. This is done by reading the related literature.