Contents of It's not All in Your Head by Asmundson and Taylor

During the creating subcategories and abstraction phase, the themes and
information units under each subcategory were examined and used to name each
subcategory. For example, in responding to question 1, there were many responses
indicating participants liked that they had learned new things in the study and had more
knowledge and skills after treatment than they had before. This was subcategory 1 and it
was labelled ―learned new things/changed thinking‖. Specific examples of this
subcategory were learning relaxation techniques or completing exercises that helped
participants understand their health anxiety (e.g., identifying thinking distortions or
identifying triggers for their anxiety symptoms). Initially many subcategories were
created. Subcategories were then examined and compared for each question. Based on
their similarities some were combined and the number of subcategories was reduced.
Subcategory names were also revised so that they could best describe the information
units. This resulted in 21 subcategories (2 - 5 per question, some subcategories were used
for multiple questions; see Table 9).
Beside each question category, a tally was made of the number response units
which signified the number of times a response was given. As noted above, some
participants provided more than one response to each question and this resulted in more
responses than participants for some questions (e.g., eight responses for ―learned new
things/changed thinking‖). The completed unconstrained categorization matrix with
response tallies is presented in Table 9.
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