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. 2022 Apr 15;12(4):e052378. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-052378

Table 1.

Text analysis

Step Primary action Purpose
1 Listening to the recordings and reading the transcriptions Becoming familiar with the data
2 Organising the data in meaning units Creating initial codes
3 Organising the initial codes Creating potential themes
4 Going through the coding for each potential theme Ensuring a coherent pattern in the thematic placement of the codes
5 Identifying the essence of each theme Themes are given their final labels/names
6 Statements are used to build up the argument for answering the research question Writing the text and choosing quotes to support the text

The analysis is conducted in six steps according to Braun.22