This is unfortunate since some themes — delaying adolescent coital debut and reducing numbers of sexual partners, for example — are widely supported goals in nearly all circles and political philosophies.
Having achieved redundancy on the theme of delay, we presented this finding to focus groups (two with older adults and two with family caregivers) for member-checking, to see whether the participants recognized the findings as being consistent with their own experiences [ 24].
The leader of the group, Steve Russell, was a procrastinator, and although the group passionately discussed a video game with a science- fiction theme, he delayed writing the necessary code until Mr. Kotok drove to Digital Equipment and returned with a paper tape containing the necessary math subroutines.
Finally, among patients who decided to go to the ED instead of going for an urgent primary care visit, a common theme was delaying action until the situation became more serious.
The releases of certain films with terrorist themes were delayed or postponed indefinitely.
In this study, we reached saturation on the primary theme, care-seeking delay, and confirmed its validity in both focus groups and the literature.
Plans for a theme park were delayed after the Dubai real estate crash in 2008.
The perception that symptoms were previously dismissed as unimportant was a relevant theme explaining subsequent delays, most often because of not wanting to appear hypochondriacal.
By the fifth participant interview, redundancy on the emergent theme of treatment seeking delay emerged.
However lack of empowerment was also a key theme: women passively accepted delayed appointments and typically did not challenge health professional misdiagnosis of early pregnancy symptoms.
