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	تحلیل موضوعی بازتابی طولی	تحلیل مضمون بازتابی
حوزه	کیفی	کیفی
خانواده	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
سال پیدایش	2006 (RTA seminal); longitudinal application developed through 2010s	2006 (seminal paper); explicitly named 'reflexive' from ~2019
پدیدآور	Virginia Braun & Victoria Clarke (reflexive thematic analysis); longitudinal design adapted from qualitative longitudinal research traditions (Saldaña, 2003)	Virginia Braun & Victoria Clarke
نوع	Qualitative analytic method applied longitudinally	Qualitative research method
منبع بنیادین	Braun, V., & Clarke, V. (2006). Using thematic analysis in psychology. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 3(2), 77–101.	Braun, V., & Clarke, V. (2006). Using thematic analysis in psychology. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 3(2), 77–101.
نام‌های دیگر	longitudinal RTA, repeated-wave thematic analysis, longitudinal qualitative thematic analysis, L-RTA	RTA, reflexive TA, Braun and Clarke thematic analysis, qualitative thematic analysis
مرتبط	5	6
خلاصه	Longitudinal Reflexive Thematic Analysis (L-RTA) applies Braun and Clarke's reflexive thematic analysis framework to qualitative data collected from the same participants (or context) at two or more time points. Rather than producing a single static account, it tracks how meanings, experiences, and themes evolve, persist, or transform over time, foregrounding the researcher's active reflexive engagement at every stage of the iterative process.	Reflexive Thematic Analysis (RTA) is a widely used qualitative method for identifying, analysing, and interpreting patterns of shared meaning — called themes — across a dataset. Developed by Virginia Braun and Victoria Clarke, it is theoretically flexible, works across epistemological positions, and foregrounds the researcher's active, interpretive role rather than treating themes as features that simply emerge from data. It differs from older 'codebook' approaches by treating the analyst's subjectivity as a resource rather than a source of bias to be suppressed.