A process of condensation then identified condensed meaning units from the original meaning units.
The process continued to distill condensed meaning units and construct sub-themes and themes [ 20].
In Table 2, examples of the analysis are displayed (ie, meaning units, condensed meaning units, abstracted meaning units, codes, categories, and the overall theme).
Examples of meaning units, condensed meaning units, subcategories, categories and theme are shown in Additional file 1. Eleven women and nine men participated in the study.
During the structural analysis, the connections and patterns of the text are uncovered by dividing the text into meaning units, condensed meaning units, themes and sub-themes [ 17].
JJH and SM read some of the transcripts, and all authors discussed and analyzed the sorted themes, subthemes, condensed meaning units and their quotations.
CH first extracted and condensed meaning units for five of the interviews, then all authors discussed the result and agreed on further approach.
Having read all the interviews to obtain a sense of the whole, this author examined the meaning units, condensed meaning units, codes and subthemes in order to detect any bias in the primary analysis made by the first author (CS).
The third step involved condensing the meaning units into codes.
In this case, it is said that the nitrogen gas has been condensed into a liquid, the word condense meaning "to make dense"—i.e., to decrease the volume.
