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Table 2 Step by step to conducting IPA analysis

From: Exploring healthcare providers’ perspectives of childbirth education classes for quality of care and positive childbirth experience: an interpretative phenomenological analysis study

STEP 1: Starting with the first case: reading and rereading

STEP 2: Explanatory notes

STEP 3: Constructing experiential statements

STEP 4: Searching for connections across experiential statements

STEP 5: Naming the personal experiential themes and consolidate

STEP 6: Continuing the individual analysis of other cases

STEP 7: Working with personal experiential themes to develop group experiential themes across cases

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BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

ISSN: 1471-2393

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