From: Qualitative description – the poor cousin of health research?
Six analytic strategies in QD |
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a. Coding of data from notes, observations or interviews |
b. Recording insights and reflections on the data |
c. Sorting through the data to identify similar phrases, patterns, themes, sequences and important features |
d. Looking for commonalities and differences among the data and extracting them for further consideration and analysis |
e. Gradually deciding on a small group or generalizations that hold true for the data |
f. Examining these generalizations in the light of existing knowledge |