Communication with Health Care Services-Experiences of Kurdish Refugees in Scandinavian Countries : Table 2

Table 2: Illustration of the analysis process in various stages (Modified from Lundestam et al).

Steps	Description
I	Meaning unit. The first step is to identify the words, sentences and paragraph that have the same essential meaning and contain aspects related to each other through their content and context.
II	Condensed meaning unit description close to the text. Then meaning units related to each other through their content and context were abstracted and grouped together into a condensed meaning unit, with a description close to the original text.
III	More condensed meaning unit interpretation of the underlying meaning. The condensed text in the meaning unit was further abstracted and interpreted as the underlying meaning and labelled with a code.
IV	Subcategories. Codes were grouped together based on their relationship and codes that addressed similar issues were grouped together in subcategories.
V	Categories. Subcategories that focused on the same problem were brought together in order to create more extensive conceptions.
VI	Theme. Finally, a theme that covers the analysed text links the categories that appeared and emerged from the text.
VII	Direct quotes. Presentation of result with direct quotes from the interviews.