Women's Decision-Making And Factors Affecting Their Choice Of ...

probes and/or questions were used to get the participants' view on the issue.
There was an active search for negative cases.
A sample of the transcripts were given to a second person to analyse to
check that the researcher was making an objective analysis of the interviews. The
second person was a nurse lecturer, and she was only given the aims of the study
and asked to analyse the transcripts to see what categories she could come up
with. There was a remarkable similarity between the themes that the researcher
and the second person produced. This was taken by the researcher as an
indication that the analysis was objective and therefore she continued with the rest
of the transcripts.
Summary sheets in the form of mind maps, depicting the categories that
developed were made for each transcript. Figure 2 is an example of a mind map
that was made.
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