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Table 3 Process of constructing the framework

From: Prioritizing rehabilitation in low- and middle-income country national health systems: a qualitative thematic synthesis and development of a policy framework

 

Step

Description of the analysis process

1

Line-by-line extraction of secondary data

• Included literature was read in full and data was extracted into Microsoft Excel

• The following categories were used for the initial extraction: paper objective, stakeholders mentioned, summary of structural and agentic features influencing prioritization and implementation of rehabilitation policies, and reflections of the data extraction team

2

Development of descriptive themes

• An abductive analytical approach was utilized, moving between the extracted literature data and policy theory to distill themes under structure and agentic features

3

Generation of analytical themes

• A second round of thematic analysis was used to inductively identify analytical sub-themes from extracted literature within the structural and agentic categories

• Group discussions within the research team were held to review sub-themes and consider representativeness across the literature

• All extracted literature was re-assembled by sub-theme

4

Dualist inductive/deductive coding of key informant interviews

• Pre-coded segments of transcripts from the key informant interviews were re-coded against the themes and sub-themes identified from the extracted literature

• A dualistic technique of deductive/inductive thematic analysis was utilized, comparing the extracted literature data and key informant interview findings. Additional sub-themes were added inductively based on the KII data

5

Triangulation with policy theory and framework finalization

• Equal weighting was applied to all forms of data when constructing the framework; however, the majority of the empirical data was derived from the KIIs

• Abductive analysis was utilized to analyze how the final set of inductively generated categories emergent in the rehabilitation-specific data aligned with policy theory and scholarship