Table 2:
Examples of Meaning Units, Condensed Meaning Units, and Codes
| Meaning unit | Condensed meaning unit | Code |
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| “OCA Facebook is more of a casual sort of method of maybe text chatting with someone or a video chat.” | Video and text chatting | Chatting |
| “News about all cancer-related events come directly to my news feed.” | Observing information through news feed | Checking news feed |
| “I feel I belong to the community that the members love me.” | Belonging to a community | Sense of belonging |
| “OCA Facebook use kept me updated because there’s so much information.” | Feel well-supported and informed | Well-supported |
| “I could learn from the people’s interaction on OCA Facebook that some tests like pap smear test is important.” | Learning from interactions with others | Learning |
| “When the doctors have told you that you might not make it to Christmas it doesn’t give you much hope, but when you use OCA Facebook and read their hopeful posted quotes and emotional sentences you say doctors are not God.” | Feeling hopeful | Hopeful |
| “I was talking to someone and commenting on her posts and then she told me that there is a trial that I might be able to be involved to.” |
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| “I could meet new people and get some friendship from it and I could make sense of information provided by my doctors.” | Making good friendships | Satisfying relationship |
| “I feel a connection or something like a bond, you feel like you’ve got something in common as well because when you go through cancer, people who haven’t had cancer tell you lots of things and they really don’t know what you're going through.” | Feeling connected and having bond | Sense of belonging |
| “I feel good when I have more information related to ovarian cancer and it keeps me updated because there’s so much information. You know it’s good, it keeps you updated with everything.” |
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| “I do chemo every week, once that I posted, many posts came just in a minute to say, ‘Stay positive,’ I felt positive.” |
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OCA, Ovarian Cancer Australia.