Nurses’ Experience of Using an Application to Support New Parents after Early Discharge: An Intervention Study
Table 1
Process of analysis, examples from the analysis.
Step 1: from medley to themes: superior themes extracted after the first open reading of the text
Step 2: from themes to codes. Identifying the meaningful units. The meaningful units are coded based on the superior themes as well as the preunderstanding and the theoretical frame
Step 3: from codes to meaning. The meaningful units are sorted into groups with respect to the codes; hereby overall categories arise from the coding process, which then are divided into subcategories
Quotations
[Code]
No tears
“I answer their questions… (…). I look at the photo of the umbilicus for instance or whatever it is. But I do not have the mother’s tears. It creates a distance”
[Lack of senses]
Telemedicine as a means of providing support
Telemedicine as a means for timely and accessible information.
[one sided dialoque] [sic]
Open door
“And I think that it is a help. They feel that it is ok that they take contact”
[help available]
Repetition
“Then they get the pop-up messages which means they get the information one more time, that’s great”
[timely information]
A lot of information in a short time
“You are just talking, talking, talking… And how much do they really remember?”
