Thematic Analysis

Question 1

Thematic analysis is the process of _________ or __________patterns of _______ across text based data. It is quite a _______ approach.

Answer 1

identifying or analyzing patterns of meaning across text based data
a flexible approach

Question 2

Describe the two main epistemological standpoints in thematic analysis

Answer 2

Essentialist realist approach - peoples words show deeper meaning/access to inner world - more objective
Critical realist approach - words give access into their version of reality - their culture, social life etc.

Question 3

True or false there are no major rules in classifying a theme.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

What is a theme?

Answer 4

A patterned response in data which has meaning in relation to research question

Question 5

What is true about prevalence in themes?

A Prevalence is never important
B Prevalence is always important
C Prevalence may or may not be important
D None of the above

Answer 5

C Prevalence may/may not be important

Question 6

What are the 2 main types of thematic analysis? Describe them

Answer 6

Inductive - Data driven - extracted themes grounded in data

Deductive - uses existing theory to guide analysis and theme search

Question 7

What are the 6 steps of Thematic analysis?
according to Braun and Clarke (2006)?

Answer 7

Familiarisation with data
Generating initial codes
theme searching
theme review
Defining/naming themes
Producing the report

Question 8

Familiarisation of data involves _________ reading of entire data set and making __________.

Answer 8

repeated reading and making annotations

Question 9

Coding is the process of ___________________________________________ which _____________________. Coding is inclusive, thorough and ________, and provides the _______ ________ for analysis.

Answer 9

identifying aspects of the data which relate to the research question
coding is inclusive, thorough and systematic
provides building blocks for analysis

Question 10

Semantic codes provide a summary of the _______ data. They typically do not deviate from the written _______ and participants __________>

Answer 10

Provide a summary of the explicit data
typically do not deviate from participants meanings and written content

Question 11

Latent codes go beyond _________ meanings and infer _________ meanings based on theoretical and conceptual ___________>

Answer 11

Latent codes go beyond explicit meanings and infer the implicit meanings
based on researchers theoretical and conceptual frameworks

Question 12

At the end of the coding phase, should all the codes be collated?

Answer 12

Yes

Question 13

Theme searching involves organising _______ into _______.

Answer 13

involves organising codes into themes

Question 14

What are cluster codes?

Answer 14

They share a unifying feature, reflecting a meaningful coherent pattern in the data

Question 15

At the end of theme searching you should have what 2 things?

Answer 15

Table of collated potential themes
data extracts for support

Question 16

Theme review requires re reading the whole data set and your collated codes. What 3 things must be ensured.

Answer 16

Themes form a coherent pattern - should relate to research question
themes should be distinct from each other
codes within themes should be relevant to theme and research question

Question 17

Defining themes involves giving each theme a _______, which ________the data within each theme and ________ it from other themes

Answer 17

Defining and naming themes
names must reflect data within theme
names must be distinct from other themes

Question 18

True or false, producing the report involves simply describing themes?

Answer 18

False, it goes beyond the data and creates a narrative/ argument

Question 19

In a thematic analysis report you describe the ________ within each theme, with vivid but relevant _______ _______

Answer 19

description of codes within a theme with vivid but relevant data extracts