Abstract
This article is part of a series on African primary care research and gives practical guidance on qualitative data analysis and the presentation of qualitative findings. After an overview of qualitative methods and analytical approaches, the article focuses particularly on content analysis, using the framework method as an example. The steps of familiarisation, creating a thematic index, indexing, charting, interpretation and confirmation are described. Key concepts with regard to establishing the quality and trustworthiness of data analysis are described. Finally, an approach to the presentation of qualitative findings is given.
Highlights
This article is part of a series on African primary care research and addresses the topics of qualitative data analysis and writing results
Over the last few decades there have been several improvements in the scientific rigour of qualitative research methods, which had previously been regarded as being less scientific than more established quantitative approaches.[1,2]
Whilst the qualitative research field is a broad one, this article will focus mainly on the analysis and reporting of qualitative data derived from interviews
Summary
This article is part of a series on African primary care research and addresses the topics of qualitative data analysis and writing results. Most primary care researchers use content analysis to make sense of their data and most approaches to content analysis follow the same basic stages of familiarisation, coding and formation of categories, interpretation of themes, confirmation of the interpretation and presentation of the http://www.phcfm.org doi:10.4102/phcfm.v6i1.640
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