Hello, Victoria. Indeed, you are correct. This methodology is known as grounded theory, wherein the themes that aim to address your research question emerge from the data via transcription and coding processes.

To be a true example of grounded theory, it would be necessary to combine their data collection and analysis into one, simultaneous process. Instead, it sounds like these authors collected all of their data and then applied a coding process that you might say was "inspired by grounded theory." Even then, their analysis process falls short of true grounded theory, since they did not move from open coding to axial coding to theoretical coding.

My personal interpretation is that they borrowed the term "constant comparative analysis" from grounded theory, and that is the extent of their use of this approach.

But at least you can say that this is not thematic analysis, since it bears no resemblance whatsoever to Braun and Clarke (2006).

So it’s neither grounded or thematic- it’s the research of Herron and earth all on putting responsive behaviours in place

David L Morgan so do you mean that the analysis should be ongoing as they are collecting data? Can you kindly elaborate on "open coding to axial coding to theoretical coding" or suggest an article that helps in this regard?

Sorry I apologise Wrathall

Most comprehensive sources on grounded theory are books, of which I would recommend Charmaz, Constructing Grounded Theory, which has a thorough discussion of the progression from initial open coding to axial coding and then to theoretical coding. As this suggests, coding is quite a specific (and demanding) process in grounded theory.

In terms of what what to call the analysis method in this article, as I said before, I would call it "inspired by grounded theory," just because they did mention a constant comparative approach. (Note that both returning the transcripts to the participants and coding as a group are generic processes in qualitative research, and thus do not affect the definition of which method was used.)

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