The Concept of Theme as Used in Qualitative Nursing Research

By L. Desantis, D. Ugarriza. Western Journal of Nursing Research, 2000

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Subfields: Education, General Health Professions, Visual Arts and Performing Arts

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Citations in the corpus

• Recommended Steps for Thematic Synthesis in Software Engineering (2011, background): “As such, a theme captures and unifies the nature or basis of the experience into a meaningful whole [19].”
• Latina Mothers’ Cultural Beliefs About Their Children, Parental Roles, and Education: Implications for Effective and Empowering Home-School Partnerships (2011, background): “As opposed to a topical label, category, or phrase, a theme is a comprehensive, vivid description that evokes the essence of an experience ( DeSantis and Ugarriza 2000 ).”
• Classifying the Findings in Qualitative Studies (2003, methodology): “Moreover, in qualitative research, these terms are not used in any consistent way (DeSantis & Ugarriza, 2000; Fredericks & Miller, 1997).”
• (Mis)conceptualising themes, thematic analysis, and other problems with Fugard and Potts’ (2015) sample-size tool for thematic analysis (2016, background): “…entities that are constructed from codes that unify disparate data, and capture the essence of some degree of recurrent meaning across a data-set (Braun & Clarke, 2013; DeSantis & Ugarriza, 2000), rather than things in the world that the researcher unearths, the idea of discovery does not work.”
• One size fits all? What counts as quality practice in (reflexive) thematic analysis? (2020, neutral): “This is probably one of the most common problems in published TA research, and it hinges on confusion around how themes are conceptualised, as there is no one widely agreed on and adopted conceptualisation of a theme in TA (DeSantis & Ugarriza, 2000).”