abstract background: chronic renal disease and hemodialysis cause numerous psychological, social, cultural, and spiritual challenges for both patients and their families. overcoming these challenges is possible only through providing holistic support for the patients. today, despite the support provided by family and professional caregivers for the patients, patients still express dissatisfacti...

Qualitative inductive methods are widely used in CSCW and HCI research for their ability to generatively discover deep contextualized insights, but these inherently manual human-resource-intensive processes often infeasible analyzing large corpora. Researchers have been increasingly interested ways apply qualitative "big" data problems, hoping achieve more generalizable results from larger amou...