Qualitative research allows the researcher to investigate and understand a topic from the
point of view of a participant or participants (Bogdan & Biklen, 2007). The qualitative process
is not an effort to explain a topic or formalize specific questions or hypotheses, but to understand
and describe the topic within its own context. The researcher must approach the topic with a
clean slate, letting go of preconceived ideas and notions about what makes up or influences the
topic