Table 5.

Qualitative and quantitative methodological competence (N = 175)

	Expert		Familiar		Beginner		Never used		Don’t know
	n	%	N	%	n	%	n	%	n	%
Qualitative methods
Thematic Analysis (n = 144)	6	4.2	84	58.3	22	15.3	19	13.2	13	9.0
Content Analysis (n = 137)	8	5.8	91	66.4	14	10.2	17	12.4	7	50.1
Grounded Theory (n = 130)	7	5.4	64	49.2	19	14.6	28	21.5	12	9.2
Phenomenology (n = 118)	3	2.5	29	24.6	18	15.3	51	43.2	17	14.4
Narrative Analysis (n = 116)	4	3.4	41	35.3	13	11.2	48	41.4	10	8.6
Discourse Analysis (n = 115)	4	3.5	35	33.0	15	13.0	47	40.9	14	12.2
Quantitative methods
Descriptive statistics (n = 111)	6	5.4	72	73.8	18	16.2	3	2.7	2	1.8
Inferential statistics (n = 98)	2	2.0	53	54.1	25	25.5	5	5.1	13	13.3