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Participatory theme elicitation: open card sorting for
user led qualitative data analysis
Paul Best, Jennifer Badham, Tracey McConnell & Ruth F
Hunter
To cite this article: Paul Best, Jennifer Badham, Tracey
McConnell & Ruth F Hunter (2021): International Journal of
Social Research Methodology, DOI:
10.1080/13645579.2021.1876616
Abstract
Participatory Theme Elicitation (PTE) is a new approach to increasing
user-involvement in qualitative data analysis. In this five-step method, participants
independently identify themes in the data using open card sorting, and are
supported in their development of a set of themes that reflect all participant views.
We describe and evaluate PTE with a case study, where nine lay researchers
identified five core themes in qualitative data from an online intervention with
depressed adults. Total participation time was approximately 6 hours.
Evaluation data revealed high levels of satisfaction with the PTE process and the
themes generated. The strong commitment to public engagement in social science
research and limited guidance on methods for effective participatory analysis of
qualitative data highlight the value and growing need for robust standardised
approaches such as PTE.
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2021.1876616