Table 6.

Combining the qualitative and quantitative stage results.

Intervention	Quantitative stage results	Qualitative stage results	Interpretation
Investigating the effect of mobile phone-based education on the pain and quality of life of adolescents with chronic pain	No improvement in the physical functioning aspect of quality of life	Challenges in doing home and school assignments (in both the control and intervention groups) No change in exercise activities (in the intervention group) No change in activities such as walking, jogging, going to the bathroom and taking a shower (in both the control and intervention groups)	Agree to some extent
	Improvement in the emotional functioning aspect of quality of life	Feeling fear and horror (in the control group) Feeling sadness and sorrow (in the control and intervention groups) Feeling anger and rage (in the control and intervention groups) No sleep disorder in either of the two groups	Agree to some extent
	Improvement in the social functioning aspect of quality of life	Communication as a pain management technique (in the intervention group) Friends had not stopped being friends (in the intervention group) No experience of being ridiculed by friends (in the control group) Limitations in doing school activities, such as the assignments, going up the stairs, etc. (in both groups) The challenging nature of accompanying friends in daily school activities (in the control group)	Agree to some extent
	Improvement in the school functioning aspect of quality of life	Paying attention to lessons; no instance of forgetting the lessons learnt (in both groups) Problems in doing school work, or absence due to not feeling well (in both groups)	Disagree