Thematic analysis of qualitative research data: Is it as easy as it sounds?

Castleberry, Ashley N.; Nolen, Amanda

doi:10.1016/j.cptl.2018.03.019

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“…From a methodological point of view, most of the studies included in this analysis used thematic analysis and/or the grounded theory, which are commonly used methods in qualitative research 39 . One of the primary steps in deciding whether a study had an increased risk of bias is the evaluation of its methodological quality.…”

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“…38 From a methodological point of view, most of the studies included in this analysis used thematic analysis and/or the grounded theory, which are commonly used methods in qualitative research. 39 One of the primary steps in deciding whether a study had an increased risk of bias is the evaluation of its methodological quality. Despite the multitude of quality scales and checklists that have been proposed [40][41][42] to assess the quality of research, the conclusion reached was that a generic and valid quality assessment tool for all cases is not available.…”

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A systematic review and meta‐synthesis of qualitative studies on pelvic organ prolapse for the development of core outcome sets

Rada

Jones

Falconi

et al. 2020

Neurourology and Urodynamics

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Aims In the current climate of evidence‐based health care, the aim of this meta‐synthesis was to collect and systematically analyse data from primary qualitative studies on pelvic organ prolapse (POP), to identify patient‐centered perspectives on the natural course of POP. Information acquired in this study may be useful for ongoing research towards the development of core outcome sets (COS) in pelvic floor disorders. Methods A CHORUS Working Group performed a standardized search of three different databases (Medline, Embase, Scopus), from inception to October 2019. We selected qualitative studies on women's perspectives on POP that were published in the English language. Three reviewers independently evaluated the quality of eligible papers and highlighted recurrent themes based on patient perspectives. Results Eighteen qualitative studies including a total of 497 patients were assessed in this analysis. Our study revealed five superordinate themes, recurrently encountered in qualitative studies on POP: awareness of POP (6 studies), communication (9 studies), treatments (10 studies), effects on quality of life (6 studies), and self‐image (3 studies). Five out of 10 quality criteria were met by all the studies included, based on an assessment performed using the critical appraisal skills program. Conclusions This is the first synthesis of qualitative studies that address POP‐related experiences of women, highlighting five superordinate themes, of which treatment was the most commonly reported one. This synthesis' findings may guide quantitative research priorities and will hopefully contribute to the development of a COS for POP.

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A systematic review and meta‐synthesis of qualitative studies on pelvic organ prolapse for the development of core outcome sets

Rada

Jones

Falconi

et al. 2020

Neurourology and Urodynamics

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“…The interview content was analysed based on principles for thematic analysis. [20][21][22] The transcribed interviews were read by all authors. Primarily, the thematic analysis was carried out by two of the researchers (ANS, AÅ).…”

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Swedish intensivists’ experiences and attitudes regarding end‐of‐life decisions

Syrous

Ågård

Redfors

et al. 2020

Acta Anaesthesiol Scand

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Background To make end‐of‐life (EOL) decisions is a complex and challenging task for intensive care physicians and a substantial variability in this process has been previously reported. However, a deeper understanding of intensivists’ experiences and attitudes regarding the decision‐making process is still, to a large extent, lacking. The primary aim of this study was to address Swedish intensivists’ experiences, beliefs and attitudes regarding decision‐making pertaining to EOL decisions. Second, we aimed to identify underlying factors that may contribute to variability in the decision‐making process. Method This is a descriptive, qualitative study. Semi‐structured interviews with nineteen intensivists from five different Swedish hospitals, with different ICU levels, were performed from 1 February 2017 to 31 May 2017. Results Intensivists strive to make end‐of‐life decisions that are well‐grounded, based on sufficient information. Consensus with the patient, family and other physicians is important. Concurrently, decisions that are made with scarce information or uncertain medical prognosis, decisions made during on‐call hours and without support from senior consultants cause concern for many intensivists. Underlying factors that contribute to the variability in decision‐making are lack of continuity among senior intensivists, lack of needed support during on‐call hours and disagreements with physicians from other specialties. There is also an individual variability primarily depending on the intensivist's personality. Conclusion Swedish intensivists’ wish to make end‐of‐life decisions based on sufficient information, medically certain prognosis and consensus with the patient, family, staff and other physicians. Swedish intensivists’ experience a variability in end‐of‐life decisions, which is generally accepted and not questioned.

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“…33 We have used thematic analysis process from the perspective of game based analysis to extract important codes or themes from the social engineering attack scenarios. Thematic analysis process is adapted from studies 34,35 and social engineering attack scenarios are collected from various research studies as mentioned in the next section. In order to get the important codes we have used Delphi approach to identify the codes and themes.…”

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Contemplating social engineering studies and attack scenarios: A review study

Yasin

Fatima

Liu

et al. 2019

Security and Privacy

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The previous year has seen an enormous increase in the studies related to social engineering. This increase is partly due to increasing number of social engineering attacks and partly due to people's inability to identify the attack. Thus, it is of great importance to find solutions which are helpful for human to understand the social engineering attacks and scenarios. To address this, we have performed a literature review of studies (on social engineering) in top-notch journals and conferences. In this paper, we have enlisted the types of attacks, and the persuasion techniques used by social engineers as listed in the literature. We also combined different theories which researchers tried to use to explain various activities of social engineers. Furthermore, we have mentioned that a better understanding of the social engineering attack scenarios can be done using thematic and game-based analysis techniques.Preliminary empirical evaluation of the proposed game based method shows overall neutral results. Future extension and evaluation is needed for the proposed methods. K E Y W O R D Scybercrime, cyber-security, human factors, human-centered, information security, review, social engineering

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Thematic analysis of qualitative research data: Is it as easy as it sounds?

Cited by 1,200 publications

References 16 publications

A systematic review and meta‐synthesis of qualitative studies on pelvic organ prolapse for the development of core outcome sets

A systematic review and meta‐synthesis of qualitative studies on pelvic organ prolapse for the development of core outcome sets

Swedish intensivists’ experiences and attitudes regarding end‐of‐life decisions

Contemplating social engineering studies and attack scenarios: A review study

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