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7.1.1 The main findings from a thematic review of the interviews
‘Qualitative data are examples of human meaningful communication […] Qualitative
research is concerned with explaining what people and situations have in common’
(Gibbs, 2007, p.9). Incorporating a semi-structured interview into the student’s
meetings with the interviewer, before and after their block of therapy, gave the
research study ethnographical detail. Revealing ideas, attitudes and personal
experiences from the students first-hand is a phenomenological approach and the data
from these interviews proved a vital way to gain a better view into the students’
experience.
Table 7.1 shows the themes which emerged. They were generally linked to the
questions that the interviewer put to the students (table 5.8).
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