Table 1.
Example of the open coding procedure, sentence by sentence.
Fig 1.
Theoretical model showing the interrelationships of the categories.
Categories organised into the building blocks of the emerging theoretical model. Categories describing what had led to the information sharing were sorted into ‘Causal conditions’, and the categories describing the conditions that shaped the ‘strategies’ i.e. the actions or interactions of people adopting the central phenomenon were sorted into ‘context’. Categories describing the result from the strategies were sorted into ‘consequences’. The “core categories” were formulated on the basis of all categories, characterising the central ideas about information sharing among (N) Nurses, (PT) Preschool teachers and (P) Parents.
Table 2.
Categories from the open and axial coding process for the three stakeholders.