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Table 5 Themes and categories emerging from the evaluation stage

From: Towards a public health approach for palliative care: an action-research study focused on engaging a local community and educating teenagers

Dimensions

Categories

Examples of text units

Take-home messages

Moments of happiness

“Happiness can exist during a bad disease” (AWT2)

“… nurturing the value of life in order to experience happiness” (WT)

Societal relevance

“Palliative care is crucial for the population” (AWT48)

Additional comments

Excellent

“Excellent session!” (AWE7)

Exciting

“Exciting” (AWT38)

Enlightening

“(…) enlightening and with very clear and relevant information” (AWE66)

Revolutionary

“(…) revolutionary education session” (WT)

Thank you

“(…) the gratitude we feel for having had this education programme. Thank you!” (WT)

Education session:

Need for more time

 

“it would have been good to have more time to further discuss some of the issues and give a more complete and comprehensive answer to the questions raised by the teenagers” (RFN)

“We really need more sessions like this one! This one was great, but we needed more time to deepen some discussions.” (I1)

  1. AWT Answers written by teenagers. AWE Answers written by catechists. RFN Researcher Field Notes. WT Written Testimony. I Interviewee