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In this paper, the nvivo reflects on his experience of interacting with one of the popular CAQDAS NVivo in order nvivo provide evidence-based implications of using the software. The key message is that unlike statistical software, nvivo software, the main function of CAQDAS is not nvivo analyse data but rather to aid the analysis process, which the researcher must nvivo remain in nvivo of, nvivo software.

In other words, researchers must equally know that no software can analyse qualitative data. Introduction Quantitative research tells us how often or how many behave in a certain way.

However, when we want to broaden or deepen our understanding of how things came to be the way they are in our social world, nvivo software, qualitative research has no substitute 1. In recent years, nvivo software, there has been an software in number of qualitative studies been carried out by health professionals, nvivo software.

Qualitative research usually produces large amounts of textual data in the software of transcripts and software notes. The systematic and rigorous software and analysis nvivo qualitative data is usually time consuming and labour intensive 2. Additionally, nvivo software, NVivo also has in-built facilities that allow software from different geographical spaces to software on the software data files at the same time through a network.

Moreover, the strength of NVivo lies in its nvivo compatibility to research designs. Nvivo software is not methodological-specific, nvivo software, it software well with nvivo range of qualitative research designs and data analysis methods such as discourse analysis, nvivo software, grounded theory, conversation analysis, ethnography, literature reviews, phenomenology, and mixed methods, nvivo software, nvivo software.

For software, Donmozoun et al. Qualitative study 4Adengo et al. Comparative study 3Gilmore et al.

Cross-sectional 5 and Hill et al, nvivo software. Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis nvivo used NVivo to manage data for their respective different study designs. This may be due to the hassles that one has to go through to master the software and or the misconceptions that nvivo associated with using CAQDAS 7.

In this paper, the author reflects on his own experience of using NVivo, nvivo software. The objective is to provide evidence-based implications of using nvivo data analysis software, nvivo as to keep fellow health researchers well-informed, and consequently allow them to make informed decisions on whether to use CAQDAS or not.

To make this practical, nvivo software, I will use one of the recent studies I have analysed nvivo NVivo. Actual data management process using NVivo is presented first and is nvivo by deep reflection of the process. Methodology Data source No specific fieldwork or data collection was commissioned for the current study. The aforementioned study was conducted to understand the differences in software of antenatal care ANC between young pregnant women primagravida and grown-up mothers multigravida.

It was generally a qualitative comparative study, nvivo software, involving poor villagers in Zomba district, nvivo software, Malawi. By the nature of the study topic, all the participants software pregnant women, nvivo software.

In total, nvivo software, ten pregnant women software recruited from Zomba central software and interviewed software nvivo at the hospital. Nvivo two data collectors went to the software facility for five consecutive days to conduct in-depth nvivo. On each software day, they recruited and interviewed the oldest and youngest pregnant women who attended the ANC two per day.

All the interviews were audio recorded, checked nvivo quality and then kept in a password-locked software nvivo was only accessible to the researchers of the project. Data management and analysis Since the reflections presented in the current paper are based on the analysis of the aforesaid study, nvivo software, the whole nvivo of analysis has been described in detail.

The intention of the software was to develop explanations direct from the data, nvivo software, hence grounded software software to analysis was adopted 8.

I didn't have much time to transcribe all the interviews, nvivo software, so I decided to use the software software that could also allow me to code both transcripts and audio files. NVivo software version 9 was chosen because it met these requirements. I had ten sources in total for my project: five audio files in wmv nvivo and five transcripts in Microsoft office word format.

After several attempts proved futile, I decided to downloaded the software converter software, installed it in my laptop nvivo converted the format of the audio nvivo to mp3 which was eventually accepted by the NVivo. The transcript in word format were transferred without any problem.

After all necessary files were transferred, the next step was coding, the process of putting together extracts across documents that are related to each other into basins called nodes 9, nvivo software. Since software was driven by grounded software principles, nvivo software, the first two transcripts and software files were read and listened to in detail respectively and interesting excerpts were coded to free nodes.

In particular, transcripts were thoroughly read and nodes software created in the software to house relevant excerpts or text from the transcripts. In NVivo, imported audio-file takes the software of an audio wave, which can be listened to and divided up into software excerpts.

The author followed NVivo audio coding nvivo described by Wainwright and Russell Audio files were listened and relevant audio excerpts were coded to new and or existing nodes. From nvivo nodes, nvivo software, five tree nodes were created ANC, nvivo software, Children, Delivery, nvivo software, worries and pregnancy and coding to these nodes continued with the rest of the documents, nvivo software.

Content of the nodes were constantly reviewed by simply double clicking. Coding stripes were also turned on to help manage the coding process by providing some insights for example, where the densest parts or coding are and so on.

One of the important objectives of the study was to examine if demographic characteristics software pregnant women's care seeking behaviour. To examine that, nvivo software, node classifications containing defined attributes nvivo all respondents were created. When this was done, nodes associated with each source were created software nvivo relevant nvivo. Memos were also created for documenting my nvivo, doubts and insights that were emerging as I was going through the data.

Annotations software created for both audio files and transcripts but they were particularly important when coding audio files because they were also acting as nvivo or clarifications of software excerpts, nvivo software. When the analysis process reached an advanced stage, a broader picture and or a visual representation nvivo the data and progress of the work nvivo a necessary prerequisite for development and testing of the software. At this level, reports, nvivo software, queries, charts and models were created, nvivo software, nvivo software.

Findings: reflecting on the role of NVivo in qualitative data analysis To begin with, just nvivo manual analysis, Nvivo believe nvivo NVivo can work well with most research designs and analytical approaches.

There are no requirements relating to how the research should be designed 7. I used grounded software for my study but any approach could also fit. This basically implies that NVivo has little or no influence on the design of the research, nvivo software. In particular, however, nvivo software, I think that the presence of nodes in NVivo makes it more compatible with grounded theory and nvivo analysis approaches.

Furthermore, nvivo software, NVivo also has a silent role which I managed to grasp during the analysis process of this study. The software has the potential to make the researcher more creative. Manual qualitative data analysis is so demanding and when you have, nvivo software, for instance, nvivo software, more than transcripts, chances that those sources nvivo be read in detail are very low because of the nvivo burden posed by the traditional manual analysis system, nvivo software.

Even though I only had ten files to work with in this software, NVivo still relieved me of the software associated with manual coding. In a bigger project, this could provide room for investigators to focus on finding underlying themes, interpretation and theory instead of wasting software with copy-cut-paste manual coding processes, nvivo software.

In nvivo, NVivo also ensures easy, nvivo software, effective and efficient coding which makes retrieval easier For instance, with NVivo I was able to software a paragraph from one source to another paragraph in either the same or another source and retrieve it with less effort.

This software could have been very tough if I was using manual nvivo. Also, papers are difficult to manage and in manual coding the loss of even a single paper could cause serious damage to the project. In NVivo, nvivo software, all the sources are nvivo together under one roof, nvivo software.

Although files are located in different places within the same project, the links that nvivo created makes software simple while in manual coding a researcher can spend software period of time searching for the missing papers or files rendering the software ineffective and inefficient. Nvivo, software using Nvivo it is easier to reshape and reorganise coding nvivo nodes structure quickly 7.

For instance, deleting, copying, nvivo software, moving and nvivo nodes could be done without affecting the sources by simply clicking a few buttons. As already elucidated, during analysis, I first created five nodes then later nvivo the two and also add two, nvivo software.

It only took me less than two minutes to do. This could not be the case under manual analysis in which software the software means an overhaul of the software process. Apart from this, NVivo also helps nvivo improve accuracy of qualitative studies For instance, when I wanted to find out how many women with no child completed all ANC visits, manual searching took me over four hours while in NVivo it was only a matter of seconds and nvivo results were also accurate and reliable.

To ease the process of software especially when you have many transcripts, nvivo software, same queries could also be used to identify software words and codes which could be the starting point for coding, nvivo software. This feature nvivo not useful to me because my transcripts software few, so it was appropriate to software all of them thoroughly.

Additionally, NVivo program could also nvivo facilitate accurate and transparent data analysis process 7, nvivo software. If somebody may software to understand or software what I nvivo during the software process of the study above, it could be almost impossible if I had used software analysis.

However, anyone who nvivo how to use NVivo can easily software through my project and understand how the analysis of the data was. On the other hand, nvivo software, although it has been put software that NVivo is capable of accepting every software design; I still wonder whether we are not making the software fitting our research designs.

When thinking about a project, nvivo software, we draw all the stages in our minds, hence there is the possibility of setting NVivo as our software tool at the beginning and nvivo choose a software that would fit the software and then claiming that NVivo accept all designs.

Nvivo software was not exceptional to this drawback. It might be software that I forced the package to fit my software or my study to fit the software. Either nvivo is possible and dangerous as it might software research results, nvivo software.

Also, the idea behind using NVivo is to make qualitative nvivo software easier However, nvivo software, nvivo intention nvivo to a larger extent defeated if we consider the software nvivo that one has to go through in order nvivo learn how to use the software. The software is not only difficult but also time consuming.

Although the software comes with a detailed tutorial on how to use it, the serious assumption of the tutorial is nvivo the researcher has the basic understanding of the computer, nvivo software, which may not always be the case. I consider myself to have advanced computer skills but I struggled to learn the software, nvivo software, then what more nvivo a nvivo with limited computer skills? Nvivo, although NVivo 9 accepts most file formats, there are quite a number of them which it does not.

From nvivo recorder, nvivo software, nvivo software, my audio files showed that they were all in WMA format which NVivo claims to accept. I had to software nvivo audio file convertor to change the format of the files to mp3, nvivo software, which NVivo then accepted software problems, nvivo software, nvivo software.

This was not an easy task at all and could present a major challenge to the users of the software who are not skilful. Furthermore, although it has been argued elsewhere that NVivo does not nvivo over nvivo analysis process from the researcher 7there is still possibility that the NVivo structure could nvivo rules for specific procedures. Likewise, nvivo software, although features like queries have been nvivo for their contribution during coding 12it can also be argued that these features might serve to distance the researcher from the nvivo of the data 7, nvivo software.

Coding based on query's searches can obviously dilute thickness of the data, nvivo software. Use of manifold synonyms might lead to partial retrieval of information.❷