The most common reason why you are STUCK in your thematic analysis (with examples)

[@sinens1s]

It is so interesting! I want to know more about the codes but the writings were slightly too small indeed. 😊

[@qualitativeresearcher]

Sorry about that! I was only recently told how to increase the font size on my screen :)

[@ChristineJeya]

That is exactly where I am stuck! Does that story need to link to every theme?

[@qualitativeresearcher]

Well, you do need to go through each theme and sub-theem at the point when you are reporting the findings. If there is no place for a give theme, means that perhaps you don't need it. So in essence yes, that story should be told through the themes and sub-themes that you have

[@ruphinao7231]

How do you settle on the themes you would like to focus on?

[@qualitativeresearcher]

I have a series "from codes to themes" where I talk a bit more about this, but generally you will need to make a decision based on 1) what you have in the data, and 2) what your research questions are. Looking at your codes, which are your insight into the data, you will have to decide how you can answer the research questions (around which themes) and therefore, which themes should be the final set of themes at the core of this answer

[@ruphinao7231]

@@qualitativeresearcher Thank you Dr. K, I have watched a number of your videos which are very informative. However, listening to my recorded interviews, the most important stories are being ignored by the coding software ( I am using Quirkos). I am trying to answer the questions around the research questions but I am getting a lot of peculiarities and surprises which cannot be ignored.

[@azrafanoos1631]

Amazing video, once again

[@qualitativeresearcher]

Glad you like them!

[@azrafanoos1631]

@@qualitativeresearcher of course

[@Marshmellow0916]

You are saving me thank you! I am the one stuck 🤣🤣

[@qualitativeresearcher]

Glad to hear this! :) (that I could help, not that you are stuck)

[@majahenigman3465]

Hi Dr. Kriukow! Thank you so much for your videos, they are extremly helpful. I have a question, if I may - you say it's good to have a large number of codes but can you have too much codes at the end of the process. I read that each individual theme/subtheme should have 5-6 codes. I currently have 4 subthemes (very obvious, I'm not strugling with that) but I have 7-20 codes per individual subtheme. Is that too much? I feel like they are all relevant and I can't merge anymore... Thank you so much!

[@qualitativeresearcher]

There is Always a way to merge some more :) But on the other hand, maybe there is no need. If you have 4 sub-themes and 7 to 20 codes in each, I would not say this is too much, although this would probably be around the limit that I do not want to go over. If all of them are extremely relevant, means you need them . When I say you always need plenty of codes this mainly refers to the initial stages of coding, the goal is to later reduce them - but like I said, the number you mentioned is also acceptable

[@sayyedmohammadsalman6962]

Hi Dr. Kruikow. I am doing my thematic analysis on an anime series and I am just unable to run the videos on NVivo. Can you tell what could be the problem I am facing? I have tried reducing the file size and getting the codecs and the formats, nothing is working for me. Everytime I run my video in NVivo the software just shuts off.

[@qualitativeresearcher]

no idea, I would try to contact the NVivo company directly. They usually respond

[@bryangideon7461]

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