Audiotaped individual and focus-group interviews
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Step 1 | Reviewed transcripts and field notes independently | Emergent factors highlighted
Illustrative quotations recorded |
Step 2 | Discussed factors and themes jointly
Identified data to confirm or refute interpretations | Interpretations agreed upon by consensus
Themes categorized using iterative process |
Videotapes
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Step 1 | Reviewed videotapes independently | Noted characteristic practice behaviors
Identified factors and themes |
Step 2 | Reviewed representative videotaped visits jointly | Shared independent interpretations
Interpretations agreed upon by consensus |
Step 3 | Reviewed notes and transcripts of the post-videotape physician interviews and questionnaires | Shared independent interpretations
Interpretations agreed upon by consensus |
Written notes from fieldwork and brief interviews
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Step 1 | Reviewed all notes from observations and nontranscribed interviews independently | Emergent factors highlighted |
Step 2 | Reviewed notes jointly | Interpretations agreed upon by consensus
Themes categorized using iterative process |
Thematic results
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Step 1 | Results reviewed with medical anthropologist in serial meetings with researchers | Probed layers of meaning about data obtained
Examined consensus decision-making about interpretations
Explored outlying interpretations |
Summarized results
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Step 1 | Study results reviewed by four key informants | Critiqued results in writing |
Step 2 | Reviewed critiques | Written comments reviewed
Results adapted accordingly |