Writing Usable Qualitative Health Research Findings

Sandelowski, Margarete; Leeman, Jennifer

doi:10.1177/1049732312450368

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“…[12,43] Therefore, the theme becomes the recurrent unifying idea that characterizes the experiences of participants by a holistic insight from the whole of data. [3,13,50] …”

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“…Moreover, a considerable diversity and lack of details on the identification of theme in the literature has often compounded the issue of development of theme. [11,13,14] Therefore, questions surrounding the process of theme construction in qualitative content analysis and thematic analysis are addressed in this paper to help with an analytical clarification, and to increase rigour and acceptability of data analysis.…”

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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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“…[12,43] Therefore, the theme becomes the recurrent unifying idea that characterizes the experiences of participants by a holistic insight from the whole of data. [3,13,50] …”

Section: Classifyingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Theme development in qualitative content analysis and thematic analysis

Vaismoradi

Jones²,

Turunen³

et al. 2016

JNEP

1,168

976

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“…A theme was defined as integrations of disparate pieces of data that were consistently present, linked numerous codes and were latent or manifest. 17 Three team members assessed all themes for agreement. The results were member-checked by participants at the evaluation sessions, with strong agreement.…”

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Impact of the 5As Team study on clinical practice in primary care obesity management: a qualitative study

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“…The interviews were semi-structured with open questions to determine the impact of LBP on women's lives, the reasons why they either sought or did not seek treatment for their LBP, the types of treatment which were used and their satisfaction with the treatments. An inductive qualitative approach was selected to enable women to describe the impact of pregnancy related LBP and explain their (non)-treatment seeking rationales from their own perspectives [15].…”

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Women's experiences of low back pain during pregnancy

Mota¹,

Cardoso²,

Carvalho³

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Abstract. OBJECTIVES:This study investigated the self-reported prevalence and impact of low back pain (LBP) during pregnancy in primiparous and multiparous women, and their treatment-seeking rationales and experiences, including their use of physiotherapy. METHODS: A sample of 105 post-partum women was recruited. All participants answered a questionnaire; women who experienced LBP during pregnancy (n = 71) continue in the study and later they were also interviewed. Content analysis, descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyse the data. RESULTS: Reports of LBP were common (n = 71; 67.6%) and slightly more frequent in primiparous (n = 40; 56.3%) than multiparous (n = 31; 43.7%) women. Multiparous women with LBP were significantly older (p < 0.001) and reported more sleep disturbances (p = 0.026) than primiparous women with LBP. LBP prevented women performing their daily activities (n = 41; 57.7%) and worsened with the advance of pregnancy (n = 55; 77.5%), yet 93.0% (n = 66) of these women received no treatment. CONCLUSION: LBP is a prevalent and important clinical condition affecting the daily life of many pregnant women. Nevertheless, few women seek any treatment and physiotherapy is rarely considered. Given the significant impact on quality of life, health professionals need to be proactive in asking women about LBP.

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Writing Usable Qualitative Health Research Findings

Cited by 306 publications

References 55 publications

Theme development in qualitative content analysis and thematic analysis

Theme development in qualitative content analysis and thematic analysis

Impact of the 5As Team study on clinical practice in primary care obesity management: a qualitative study

Women's experiences of low back pain during pregnancy

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