Recommendation to ensure rigour in secondary analysis of qualitative data | Measure taken |
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Information about the discursive context of interviewee's responses. | Detailed transcriptions, transcribed verbatim, were available. |
Information about the discursive history of interviewee's responses. | Whole interviews were available to at least one of the researchers involved in the secondary analysis rather than just the relevant sections. |
Information about background characteristics of interviewer and interviewee. | Field note summaries (interview ‘pen portraits’), included information about the participant’s gender, age, socio-economic status, residence, family situation, key life events and the context in which each interview took place were provided. |
Information about the place, time and setting of the interview, such as presence of third persons. | Information included in detailed field note summaries. |
Information about the composition of the secondary dataset. | Sampling frameworks of the primary studies and the selection of the subset used in the secondary analysis are described in the methods section. |
Funding of the primary and secondary work. | Funding information for the primary studies is included in Table 1. Additional funding sources for the secondary analysis are included in the acknowledgements. |
The relationship of each of the authors to the data. | At least one researcher from the original study was available to provide further information on any contextual queries (ShP, BP, RD). The original researchers were not however involved in the re-coding of the data (conducted by NE and RP). |
Information about informed consent. | Ethics and informed consent are described in the methods section. |
Rationale for approach used in secondary analysis and a description of analysis procedure. | Rationale for the thematic analysis is described in the methods section. |
Information about how the data were managed. | Data were managed using Atlas ti qualitative data analysis software. |
Information about how the rigour of the analysis was established. | Details provided in this table. |
Information about how the ‘fit’ of the data was ascertained. | At least one researcher from the original study confirmed the fit of the resulting themes. |
Details of limitations. | Limitations are outlined in the limitations section. |