A qualitative, phenomenological hermeneutical method for interpreting interview texts was used in this study. The method
has been elaborated on by Lindseth & Norberg [26], who are inspired by the theory of interpretation presented by Paul
Ricoer [27]. The analysis process includes three phases: naïve reading, structural analysis and comprehensive
understanding. The starting point of the analysis is the experiences related by the respondents in the interviews. In the
naïve reading, the researcher confines the meaning to the whole of the narration in the text, linked to its context. To gain an
overall understanding, the text is read many times by the researcher. The structural analysis of the text validates or
invalidates the researcher’s overall understanding of the text as acquired in the naïve reading. The structure of the text is in
focus in this phase, while units of meaning in the text are being sought that explain what the text is saying along with the
meaning of the lived experience. The third phase, comprehensive understanding, is the researcher’s final interpretation of
the text, and is a movement between interpretation and understanding of the lived experience, based on pre-understanding,
literature, the naïve reading and the structural analysis.