Table 1 Steps of data analysis taken when conducting interpretive phenomenology, adapted from Caelli [33]
From: Being on the juvenile dermatomyositis rollercoaster: a qualitative study
1. Reading and re reading whole interview many times | |
2. Highlighting the first level extra text which can come out e.g. interviewer questions or listening noises where not important, and ‘umms’ and ‘huh’ which are extra | |
3. With first level text removed | |
4. Second level coding procedure to identify sections that wander away from phenomena, are superfluous e.g. when discussing what they had for lunch or do not make good grammatical English | |
5. With second level text removed | |
6. Third level, all of it with added words to make it readable, but keeping participant words wherever possible | |
7. Craft into story, in a way that ‘shows’ what the researcher is noticing and interpreting whilst working with the data and keeping it true to original meaning | |
8. With comments added to show initial themes of each paragraph of crafted story |