Findings from a small-scale, exploratory content analysis of information provided to AIS patients and their parents from NHS Scoliosis Hospital Clinics
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Methods Content analysis (CA) is an established and widely used method of document analysis, and can be used with quantitative or qualitative data and in a deductive or inductive way (Elo & Kyngäs, 2008). It has been defined as ‘any technique for making inferences by objectively and systematically identifying specified characteristics of messages’. The methods used here were ‘conventional’ (with a simple thematic analysis of the data) as well as ‘summative’ (though categories or key concepts were not counted but described in tabular and narrative form).
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دوره 8 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2013