Development of the translation procedures could provide qualitative nursing researchers with a guide when collecting data in one language and presenting results in another language. In this way, the necessary rigour in qualitative nursing research could be achieved.

This method indicates how grounded theory has developed, where it might go next in nursing research and how it may continue to evolve.

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This study shows that family carers experience a catastrophic life event, they have to confront challenges and the positive consequence is family resilience, the negative consequence is family breakdown. Relevance to clinical practice. Knowing how prospective family carers view their own situation and what they need is essential to provide effective nursing care for the family that has been changed dramatically by a spinal cord injury.