Table 1 Diagram for this MMs study with the explanatory sequential design
Phase | Procedure | Product |
|---|---|---|
Quantitative data collection | Cross-sectional study(N ≈ 500) | Numeric data |
Quantitative data analysis | Data screening (frequencies, percent, poison regression, cox regression) using IBM SPSS software V.21 | Descriptive statistics, linearity, multivariate outliers, hypothesis testing |
Development of the Interview Protocol & Case selection | Purposeful recruitment based on typical response and maximal variation principle Developing interview questions | Case? |
Collecting or making the qualitative data | Individual in-depth interview with participants (Until data saturation) | Text (non-numeric) data (interview transcripts) |
Qualitative data analysis | Coding and thematic analysis Development of the within- case and across-case themes using the constant comparative methods (e.g. conventional qualitative content analysis) | Text data (interview transcripts) Codes, categories and themes |
Integration of the Qualitative and the Quantitative Results | Interpretation and explanation of the quantitative and qualitative results simultaneously | Discussion Implications for the policy and the public future research |