Thematic Analysis and Its Reconceptualization as ‘Saliency Analysis’

Buetow, Stephen

doi:10.1258/jhsrp.2009.009081

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“…[19] It contains codes that have a common point of reference and has a high degree of generality that unifies ideas regarding the subject of inquiry. [3,20] It is considered a thread of underlying meaning implicitly discovered at the interpretative level and elements of subjective understandings of participants. [19,21,22] Each theme may have some subthemes as subdivisions to obtain a comprehensive view of data and uncovers a pattern in the participants' account.…”

Section: Meaning Of Themementioning

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Theme development in qualitative content analysis and thematic analysis

Vaismoradi

Jones²,

Turunen³

et al. 2016

JNEP

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Sufficient knowledge is available about the definition, details and differences of qualitative content and thematic analysis as two approaches of qualitative descriptive research. However, identifying the main features of theme as the data analysis product and the method of its development remain unclear. The purpose of this study was to describe the meaning of theme and offer a method on theme construction that can be used by qualitative content analysis and thematic analysis researchers in line with the underpinning specific approach to data analysis. This methodological paper comprises an analytical overview of qualitative descriptive research products and the meaning of theme. Also, our practical experiences of qualitative analysis supported by relevant published literature informed the generation of a stage like model of theme construction for qualitative content analysis and thematic analysis. This paper comprises: (i) analytical importance of theme, (ii) meaning of theme, (iii) meaning of category, (iv) theme and category in terms of level of content, and (v) theme development. This paper offers a conceptual clarification and a pragmatic step by step method of theme development that has the capacity of assisting nurse researchers understand how theme is developed. As nursing is a pragmatic discipline, nurse researchers have tried to develop practical findings and devise some way to "do something" with findings to enhance the action and impact of nursing. The application of a precise method of theme development for qualitative descriptive data analysis suggested in this paper helps yield meaningful, credible and practical results for nursing.

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Section: Meaning Of Themementioning

confidence: 99%

Theme development in qualitative content analysis and thematic analysis

Vaismoradi

Jones²,

Turunen³

et al. 2016

JNEP

1,334

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“…A limitation of this article is that these micro-ethnographic encounters may appear to be extremely fleeting. However, the case studies have been selected from the broader dataset using the criteria of salience (Buetow 2010) -i.e. they are pertinent to the particular research questions that are addressed here.…”

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Governing spaces: a multi-sited ethnography of governing welfare reform at close range and at a distance

Carter

2016

Critical Policy Studies

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Governing at a distance has been much discussed in relation to welfare reforms but debates tend toward abstract theorization, neglecting Foucault's instruction to study mundane practices in specific sites. Although sociological concepts of place, positioning and boundaries carry particular resonance for public policy, ethnographic studies are scarce. A multi-sited ethnography of welfare reform reveals how seemingly discrete governance sites turned out to be linked in a complex policy assemblage. Findings suggest that governing at a distance may be ineffective and may necessitate governing at close range, although scales may fold over. Local spaces of network governance may not be autonomous but imbricated with national and local government and broader scales of governance. Apparently inclusive spaces exhibited exclusionary features, with spaces doing representational work that was simultaneously political, material and symbolic. Complex, shifting sociospatial relationships thus influence the uneven development of welfare reform.

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“…The qualitative data analysis was designed based on inductive thematic content analysis (18) . From this inductive model, the identified themes were extracted from the data and a coding process was conducted from the data, do not fixed a priori, meaning that they were based on the data itself (18) .…”

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“…From this inductive model, the identified themes were extracted from the data and a coding process was conducted from the data, do not fixed a priori, meaning that they were based on the data itself (18) . The codification process was guided by repetitive readings of collected data, identifying significant situations and the regularity with which they appeared in interviews, analysis of the meanings, elaboration and discussion of the issues.…”

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Child care and health rights: perspectives of adolescent mothers

Santos

Andrade

Pina

et al. 2015

Rev. esc. enferm. USP

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OBJECTIVETo analyze child health care and the defense of their rights from the perspective of adolescent mothers.METHODSAn exploratory study with qualitative thematic analysis of data, based on conceptual aspects of care and the right to health, from semi-structured interviews with 20 adolescent mothers ascribed by Family Health teams.RESULTSMaternal reports indicate that child health care requires responsibility and protection, with health practices that promote child advocacy. Gaps in assistance which preclude the full guarantee of the right to child health care were also highlighted.CONCLUSIONThe right to health care assumed different meanings, and the forms to guarantee them were linked to individual behavior in detriment to broader actions that consider health as a social product, connected to the guarantee of other fundamental rights.

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Thematic Analysis and Its Reconceptualization as ‘Saliency Analysis’

Cited by 258 publications

References 11 publications

Theme development in qualitative content analysis and thematic analysis

Theme development in qualitative content analysis and thematic analysis

Governing spaces: a multi-sited ethnography of governing welfare reform at close range and at a distance

Child care and health rights: perspectives of adolescent mothers

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