Table 3 Example of the coding and grouping approaches for analysis
Participant information | Coding | Common theme |
|---|---|---|
“I have like a film forming across my chest” | Chest tightness | Symptom burden |
“Coughing usually starts about twelve O’Clock and it doesn’t have any rhyme or reason” | Diurnal variation | Symptom variation |
“Right, if somebody comes round to your house, you get a visitor who goes ‘I’m not feeling well’ then I just say ‘well go away, just go, stay away from me’.” | Social anxiety | Quality of life |
“how do you define moderate difficulty and a little difficulty” | Questionnaire answers | Questionnaires |