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What is thematic analysis?

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  • Identifying and analysing themes within qualitative data
  • Includes an element of interpreting data
  • Involves finding related patterns of meanings (themes) within your data sets
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What are the phases of Thematic analysis?

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  1. Familiarising yourself with the text
  2. Generating initials codes
  3. Searching for themes
  4. Reviewing themes
  5. Defining and naming themes
  6. Producing a report
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What are some pitfalls with thematic analysis?

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  • Failure to analyse data
  • Using the interview questions as themes
  • Weak analysis: themes don’t make sense, overlap too much or fail to capture data
  • Mismatch between analytical claims and data, not backed up
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What is descriptive phenomenology?

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  • Emphasis on bracketing out prior knowledge and biases

- Aims to get a pure understanding

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What is interpretative phenomenology?

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  • Similar aims but emphasis on the impossibility of separating description and interpretation
  • Use knowledge and assumptions to better understand
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IPA methods: purposive sampling

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  • Participants are selected for the relevance of a research question
  • Participants share similar characteristics
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IPA methods: ideographic approach

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  • Focus on engagement with individuals cases

- Integration comes late in the research process

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IPA methods: double hermeneutic

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  • First, participant tries to understand their experience

- Then, researcher tries to understand and interpret their account

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What are the stages of IPA?

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  1. Reading and re-reading test
  2. Identify and label themes
  3. Structuring the themes
  4. Summary table
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What is integration of cases?

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  • Aim to generate a list of master themes that capture the participants shared experiences
  • Can make a summary table for each case
  • Summary table is constantly being reworked
  • End up with a master summary table