Table 2:

Children’s experiences of CCHD, third generic category

Units of analysis (participant number)	Codes	Sub-categories	Generic category
The orange is happy, the cucumber is not very happy and not angry (14)	Tell what they see	Interpret the pictures and observe details	Interpret into an understandable story
Everybody is running, except for the troll (13)The lamp is on otherwise you can’t see (1)	Observe the details
She showed me her hand (Do you know what she told you?) I don’t know (10)	Tell what they remember
The troll likes water best (8)
He will fall down and mum is helping him, she says : ‘you have to go there’, yes, she says: ‘stop’, so that he will not fall, ‘you should not be up there, you can play if you like’ (12)	See the troll as part of a family	Create a story
And there you are jumping on the trampoline and there you sit with a few apples and there you drink and there you are brushing your teeth and there you are with all those things and there you are eating fruit and there you sleep (11)	See the pictures as a story
If you eat a little bit of beans and cucumber and bread and cheese then it will be tasty (7).	Tell what they understand	Create understandable meaning
You have to brush your teeth… in the night (pointing at the moon) and in the morning (pointing at the sun) (4)
This one has three hands (15)	Tell what they do not understand
The troll said: ‘you could eat food with your hands’ (3)
But there are ice cubes in it, big ice cubes ….I did not drink it (the sugar), most of it was left in it, most of it was left in the soda can (16)