Analysis. A qualitative analysis was performed, including
both manifest and latent content analysis (24); the
former as the quality indicators formed the basis for thequestions, and the latter as the underlying meaning was
interpreted in the themes that occurred. The analysis was
performed in the following steps:
1 The transcribed interviews were read in their entirety
to obtain an overall picture.
2 Preliminary domains were formed based on the quality
indicators. All interview data could be sorted into these
domains.
3 The interviews were grouped into meaning units; that
is, parts of the text with statements with the same general
content.
4 Manifest content analysis was used to condense the
meaning units into shorter descriptions of the content
in every unit.
5 The meaning units were abstracted and labelled with
codes.
6 The meaning units were sorted into the domains.
7 Codes with similar content were united into categories.
8 Latent content analysis was used to create themes from
the underlying content, illustrated by direct quotes
from the text which were intended to show what most
people had indicated in the interviews.
9 The trustworthiness of the results was addressed
through reflections and discussions between the two
authors throughout the analysis procedure. The coding
was continually compared with the meaning units and
the text in its entirety, to assure conformity.