2.5. Data analysis

Data were analyzed with the domain analysis, taxonomical analysis, componential analysis, and theme analysis proposed by Spradley [22]. In the first step, the recorded interviews by participants were transcribed. An overall picture for the treatment of patients with chronic hepatitis C was drawn through this step. In the second step, a categorization was made by planning the questions for the next steps or the focuses of observations and considering the semantic relations of the explored data based on the domain analysis. In the third step, a componential analysis was performed, in which the properties of the categories were systematically derived by classifying the data into similar meanings. In the fourth step, the process of the theme analysis was carried out, where the culture theme that reappeared both implicitly and explicitly in the treatment processes for patients with chronic hepatitis C and repeatedly appeared in the culture was discovered.