Table 1.

Layered analysis of patients' and caregivers' experiences

Stage	Process	Purpose
1	Initial preview of each photograph and related interview transcript, moving repeatedly between transcript and photographs for each participant on a case‐by‐case basis	Seek an understanding of participants' intended representations and how they site themselves within the content of the photograph
2	Thorough and detailed review of participants' interpretations of their photographs and the context in which they were produced	Develop understanding of patients' and caregivers' tube feeding experiences in the “home” environment.
3	Reflexive and repetitive constant comparison of the entire photographic collection and interviews in which photographs were tentatively coded and then recategorized with increasing refinement	Code data and emergent themes. Clarify inconsistencies between what we were seeing in the photographs and the participants' narratives
4	An interpretation of the categories in relation to appropriate theory	We used a sociomaterial perspective, focusing on the human and nonhuman aspects of tube feeding at home for patients and caregivers.

Adapted from: Balmer, C., F. Griffiths, and J. Dunn, A ‘new normal’: Exploring the disruption of a poor prognostic cancer diagnosis using interviews and participant‐produced photographs. Health. 2015; 19 451–472