Table 1 Correspondence between interpretative phenomenological analysis [13] and quantitative lexicometric analysis
Interpretative phenomenological analysis – Themes | Quantitaive lexicometric analysis – Semantic classes* (hierarchical descending classification) | Quantitaive lexicometric analysis – Semantic communities (similarity analysis) | |
|---|---|---|---|
Category #1 Living with COPD-related dyspnea | Theme #1 Envisioning one's death by suffocation | Class#1 Experience and need for understanding Class#4 Hospitalization | Community#3 Thing Community#5 Hospitalization Community#6 Feel |
Theme #2 Losing autonomy and hope | Class#2 Limitations | Community#6 Problem | |
Theme #3 Coping strategies | Class#3 Management | Community#2 Take | |
Theme #4 Being exhausted by a long-lasting burden | Community#3 Thing | ||
Category #2 Dyspnea invisibilities | Theme #5 Having been fooled by the insidious nature of dyspnea as a warning sign | Community#4 Disease Community#1 Seeing | |
Theme #6 Others' lack of awareness | Class#1 ** Experience and need for understanding | Community#1 Seeing Community#4 Disease | |
Theme #7 An unshareable life experience | Community#7 Feel | ||
Theme #8 A suffering that cannot be objectively measured | Community#4 Disease | ||
Theme #9 Others' lack of empathetic concern | Community#1 Seeing Community#4 Disease |