Searching for meaning: a method of analysing interview transcripts with a personal computer.
Unstructured, qualitative data present a challenge to the nurse researcher. This paper offers a method of focusing on 'meaning units' as the basis of developing a category system for the analysis of interview transcripts. The use of the wordprocessing program WordPerfect is described as a method of...
| Publicado en: | Nurse Education Today Vol. 14; no. 2; pp. 111 - 118 |
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| Formato: | Journal Article |
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Elsevier B.V.
1994 Apr
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