Table 3 Illustration of the analytic process
Meaning unit | “It’s something with the term incurable cancer. It does something to the ones following up. When it says cancer, their shoulders rise immediately.” |
“There’s something about cancer and palliative phase. It has some expectations attached. That often makes your shoulders rise a little. When you’re talking to the patients, and you move over to topics like life and death and the patient’s anxiety and expectations and so on.” | |
Condensed meaning unit | The term incurable cancer makes the shoulders rise |
Coding | Fear of cancer and death |
Category | Cancer-specific competence |
Sub-theme | Knowledge and competence |
Theme | Lack of experience and personal distress of cancer inhibited professional care |