The question of the intensity of physical activity and use of different methods of training in patients and athletes are potential themes of future studies.
Third, the pool of codes was sorted into potential themes on the basis of frequency, significance and overlap.
The section of the questionnaire that explored the importance of the potential themes to learn in a medical education program for residents asked them to rank 20 content areas in a scale of 0 to 4 (0 = the theme is not important, 4 = the theme is very important).
Interviews will be analyzed by the first author using inductive thematic analysis to identify common patterns across the interviews and finally generate potential themes to use in the development of the educational tool [ 83, 84].
The purpose of this study was to identify potential themes for inclusion in effective HIV prevention interventions for Mexican American men who have sex with men (MSM).
As coding progressed, we used memos to summarise and synthesise this work: memos were created for each new code assigned, as well as for potential themes or groupings of codes.
Initially, the transcriptions were read and re-read by three members of the research team and initial identification of codes and potential themes occurred through colour coding of transcripts by hand.
The third phase involved the process of axial coding, whereby all data was initially coded, a list of different codes was developed, these different codes were sorted into potential themes, and relevant extracts of coded data were then collated under the identified themes.
Toward the end of my second year there, I decided it was time to get back into constructing and started thinking of potential themes.
Glossaries may prove quite sticky as there are virtually an infinite number of potential themes that can be built out (think Web 2.0 terms, 60's Hollywood actresses, etc although a good starting point might be an actual definition for Web 2.0, which does not yet exist on the site.
