![]() More simply put, a theme captures an aspect of patterned meaning in the data and tells the reader something about the shared meaning within it, whereas a topic summary simply summarises participant’s responses relating to a particular topic (so shared topic but not shared meaning). In our reflexive approach to TA, themes are conceptualised as patterns in the data underpinned by a central concept that organises the analytic observations this is rather different from a topic summary, and the two should ideally not be confused when using our approach. Unlike themes, there isn’t anything that unifies the description of what participants said about this topic – there is no underlying concept that ties everything together and organises the analytic observations. A topic summary is a summary of an area (topic) of the data for example, a summary of everything the participants said in relation to a particular topic or interview question. The difference between a theme and a topic or domain summary is a source of frequent confusion in much published TA research.
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