What can “thematic analysis” offer health and wellbeing researchers?

By Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke. International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health & Well-Being, 2014

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The field of health and wellbeing scholarship has a strong tradition of qualitative research*and rightly so. Qualitative research offers rich and compelling insights into the real worlds, experiences, and perspectives of patients and health care professionals in ways that are completely different to, but also sometimes complimentary to, the knowledge we can obtain through quantitative methods. (Published: 16 October 2014) Citation: Int J Qualitative Stud Health Well-being 2014, 9 : 26152 - http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/qhw.v9.26152

Subfields: General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Understanding Mental Health: What Are the Issues for Black and Ethnic Minority Students at University? (2018, positive): “In an iterative process of review and reflection, key themes and sub-themes were identified and defined (Braun and Clarke 2014).”
• Applying Thematic Analysis to Education: A Hybrid Approach to Interpreting Data in Practitioner Research (2020, neutral): “Thematic analysis (TA) is a commonly used qualitative data analysis approach in psychology (Braun & Clarke, 2006), health care (Braun & Clarke, 2014), sport and exercise (Braun et al., 2017), and many other fields (Boyatzis, 1998).”
• Thematic analysis of qualitative data: AMEE Guide No. 131 (2020, neutral): “Thematic analysis is a term that has been variably defined (Merton 1975; Aronson 1995; Boyatzis 1998; Attride-Stirling 2001; Braun and Clarke 2006; Joffe 2011), and that has even been discounted as unsophisticated or inferior to other qualitative methods (Braun and Clarke 2006, 2014).”
• Human-AI Co-Creation in Songwriting (2020, methodology): “We conducted an inductive thematic analysis [2, 5, 6] on the survey results to identify and better understand patterns and themes found in the teams’ survey responses.”
• "Hello AI": Uncovering the Onboarding Needs of Medical Practitioners for Human-AI Collaborative Decision-Making (2019, background): “The researchers examined relationships between codes, and iteratively converged on a set of themes [9, 10].”
• An Empathy-Driven, Conversational Artificial Intelligence Agent (Wysa) for Digital Mental Well-Being: Real-World Data Evaluation Mixed-Methods Study (2018, methodology): “A qualitative thematic analysis, as proposed by Braun and Clarke, 2006 [35,36], on in-app feedback responses was performed.”