Imagine that you have conducted qualitative interviews with a small sample of nurses about their jobs.You have done 25 interviews,each about 30 minutes long,resulting in about 20 pages of transcription.Now that you have about 500 pages of data,how would you go about analyzing the data?
A) select topics that participants have talked about
B) create categories through coding
C) look for patterns
D) subject to quantitative statistical manipulation
E) select topics that participants have talked about, create categories through coding, and after categorizing, look for patterns

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The best approach would be to first read through all of the transcripts to identify the main topics that participants have talked about. Then, create categories through coding, which involves assigning labels to segments of data that relate to specific themes. Finally, after categorizing, the next step would be to look for patterns within and across the categories to identify trends and insights from the data. This approach is a common method used in qualitative analysis known as thematic analysis. Quantitative statistical manipulation would not be appropriate for this type of qualitative data.

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