Qualitative Data Analysis Sample examples Content analysis Start

Qualitative Data Analysis Sample examples

Content analysis • Start with text –organize similar ideas –Name codes and define • Start with questions –organize responses

Respondent: He sounds depressed to me. Interviewer: Okay thanks. Yes? Respondent: He seems to be isolating himself. Interviewer: He’s isolating himself. Uh huh? Respondent: There a lot of symptoms of emerging, potentially emerging mental health issues. Interviewer: Like? Respondent: Well the sustained time of not eating well, sleeping, missing work you said for a week. It’s usually two weeks if things happen for two weeks or longer. Then it begins to affect all areas of your life. It’s affecting his social life. It’s affecting his work life. It’s affecting his activities. So those are pretty big symptoms.

Respondent: He seems to be isolating himself. Interviewer: He’s isolating himself. Uh huh? Respondent: There a lot of symptoms of emerging, potentially emerging mental health issues. Interviewer: Like? Respondent: Well the sustained time of not eating well, sleeping, missing work you said for a week. It’s usually two weeks if things happen for two weeks or longer. Then it begins to affect all areas of your life. It’s affecting his social life. It’s affecting his work life. It’s affecting his activities. So those are pretty big symptoms.

TEXT CODE Well the sustained time of not eating well, sleeping, missing work you said for a week. It’s usually two weeks if things happen for two weeks or longer. Then it begins to affect all areas of your life. It’s affecting his social life. It’s affecting his work life. It’s affecting his activities. Symptoms Respondents notice and identified describe Description of Code symptoms of mental health conditions

Respondent: I was thinking another possible option I guess if you didn’t have resources for medical providers to help him, would be somebody in the faith community like a spiritual leader or… Interviewer: So another option for treatment, how would Bob get there? How would Bob get to one of these alternatives to the health care system? Respondent: This is where you’re going to have the family involved. But they’re saying the brother’s saying he’s not communicating with him.

TEXT CODE I was thinking another possible option I guess if you didn’t have resources for medical providers to help him, would be somebody in the faith community like a spiritual leader or… This is where you’re going to have the family involved. But they’re saying the brother’s saying he’s not communicating with him. Treatment Respondents describe options possible Description of Code solutions for symptoms

Code: Identifying appropriate symptoms for diagnosis Symptoms Identifying inappropriate symptoms for diagnosis No symptoms identified to characterize behavior

Code: Medication (pharmacological) Treatment options Engage family support Meditation Group therapy

Interpretive analysis • Look for areas of meaning • Name ideas as concepts or phrases • Refine as successive texts analyzed

It often happens when somebody… I mean he’s isolating himself however he does have a girlfriend. You mentioned a girlfriend so there’s at least someone in his life that hopefully can reach out and try and connect him with. If they don’t have the answers there’s someone else that does. So they could act as a beginning step for trying to encourage him to get help because conversely they need help but when someone’s in that situation they’re not as likely to reach out and get it themselves. They need someone usually to help lead them to resources.

Mental health providers can look Finding for multiple sources supportive of contact and help others connect patient to others Theme:

Suggestions • Decide upon coding plan • Set time line for analysis activities • Create file management system – Software – Word files – Tables • Keep audit trail –log of decisions