Indeed, if what matters is supposed to be the degree of continuity, it might seem to make more sense simply to focus on the more obviously scalar relation in which continuity consists, viz., connectedness, as delivering the units of significance in the form of selves.
Next, units of significance are condensed even more and themes are formulated.
Then the units of meaning are sorted and condensed and units of significance are formulated (what is talked about).
In Figure 1, the movement from units of meaning to units of significance and to the emergence of themes is illustrated.
Here the text was analysed based on units of meaning, (what is said) and units of significance (what is being talked about).
Contradictory data formed units of significance that were not value loaded in order to include different patient perspectives on the same matter.
Thus, while open coding fractured the data in short units of significance, axial coding connected them into categories and subcategories in a hierarchical order, and finally selective coding integrated the categories to build a substantive theory.
First by identify all units of meaning, that is parts in the text were the patient describe the experience of recovery at home after heart valve replacement and next by identifying patterns and formulating units of significance and themes [ 18, 19].
At the second level a non-thematic structural analysis is performed by approaching the text in an open-minded way and disclosing units of meaning (what was said) and units of significance (what the text talks about), which was subsequently collated in themes.
