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	Interpretativ kvalitativ innehållsanalys	Grounded Theory
Ämnesområde	Kvalitativa metoder	Kvalitativ forskning
Familj	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Ursprungsår	2005 (interpretive strand formalised); qualitative content analysis roots in the 1980s–1990s	1967
Upphovsperson	Hsiu-Fang Hsieh & Sarah E. Shannon (conventional/interpretive strand); Phillip Mayring (qualitative content analysis generally)	Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss
Typ	Qualitative analytic approach	Method
Ursprungskälla	Hsieh, H.-F., & Shannon, S. E. (2005). Three approaches to qualitative content analysis. Qualitative Health Research, 15(9), 1277–1288.	Glaser, B. G., & Strauss, A. L. (1967). The discovery of grounded theory: Strategies for qualitative research. Aldine.
Alias	conventional content analysis, inductive qualitative content analysis, interpretive QCA, IQCA	GT, Grounded Theory Approach
Närliggande	5	3
Sammanfattning	Interpretive qualitative content analysis (also called conventional content analysis) is a qualitative approach to systematically analysing text in which coding categories emerge directly from the data rather than from a pre-defined coding scheme. The researcher immerses themselves in the material, derives codes inductively through close reading, groups those codes into interpretive categories, and constructs a conceptual account of the content's meaning. It is especially suited to domains where existing theory is sparse and the aim is to understand how participants describe or make sense of a phenomenon.	Grounded Theory (GT) is a systematic qualitative research methodology in which theory emerges directly from data through iterative analysis, rather than being imposed before data collection. Developed by Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss in 1967, GT prioritizes generating explanatory frameworks grounded in evidence.