Qualitative Content Analysis

Abstract

Background During 2011-2013, women from a municipality in Denmark who were born in 1936, 1941, 1946 or 1951 were invited to cardiovascular screening (n = 1984); of those, ten nonattendees were interviewed about their perspectives on cardiovascular screening. The interviews were re-analysed to gain a deeper understanding of their motives for viewing screening as personally irrelevant. A salutogenic perspective formed the premise for the data analysis. Additional Files Additional le 1. This le contains the checklist 'The COnsolidated criteria for REporting Qualitative research (COREQ): a 32-item checklist for interviews and focus group'.

A grounded theory of how social support influences physical activity in adolescent girls

“…Criteria for assessing the quality of qualitative studies are often termed as trustworthiness (Elo et al, 2014). Trustworthiness can be assessed at each stage of a research process, including data collection, interpretation, organization and reporting of results (Elo et al, 2014).…”

Ethical and methodological issues in qualitative studies involving people with severe and persistent mental illness such as schizophrenia and other psychotic conditions: a critical review

“…Thus, the importance of obtaining in-depth knowledge from the perspective of individuals with experience of the investigated phenomenon, as mentioned by Mestdagh and Hansen (2014), is well described and taken care of in some of the studied articles, for example through descriptions of member checks and the use of an advisory group of people with experience of mental illness (Kidd et al, 2016; Singh et al, 2016). In addition, attaining and reporting trustworthiness in the findings can be assured by the detailed descriptions of the analysis process in qualitative studies involving individuals with schizophrenia and other psychotic conditions, as highlighted by Elo et al (2014). …”

“…Attaining trustworthiness in findings of qualitative studies is of great significance and the analysis approach used should assure trustworthiness in the data analysis regarding the perspectives of the individual, which is essential for developing nursing research and practice (Elo et al, 2014). Both inductive and deductive analysis processes represent three main phases, described as preparation, organizing and reporting the data (Elo et al, 2014), starting with selecting the units of meaning in the analysis.…”

“…Both inductive and deductive analysis processes represent three main phases, described as preparation, organizing and reporting the data (Elo et al, 2014), starting with selecting the units of meaning in the analysis. A unit of meaning in a qualitative analysis can consist of more than one sentence and contain several meanings, making the use of long units of meaning in the analysis process difficult and challenging (Graneheim & Lundman, 2004).…”

“…A unit of meaning in a qualitative analysis can consist of more than one sentence and contain several meanings, making the use of long units of meaning in the analysis process difficult and challenging (Graneheim & Lundman, 2004). However, too brief a meaning unit extracted from its context in the interview could result in fragmentation of the participant’s intended meaning (Elo et al, 2014). These issues become even more central when analysing data deriving from interviews with people who deliver different levels of incoherent speech or are taciturn at times despite being willing to participate and having important experiences to share.…”