Original Paper The Attitudes of Therapists and Physicians on the Use of Sex

participant and the number of issues they wanted to discuss.
Coding and Data Analysis
Statistical analyses were conducted using SPSS 18. Descriptive
statistics were used to evaluate most of the items. Statistical
correlations were calculated using appropriate statistical test
procedures 
(cross 
table, 
Spearman 
correlation,
Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test, and binary logistic regression
analysis). The open questions of the questionnaire were analyzed
by content analysis. All interviews were transcribed verbatim.
The transcripts were evaluated according to grounded theory
analysis using Microsoft Office Word. The grounded theory is,
among other methods, one that is suitable for research that seeks
to discover something new [
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]. Our choice of using grounded
theory lies in its capacity to discover participants’ main concerns
to consolidate the results of the quantitative survey. The analysis
begins with the process of open coding. Open codes are, for
example, certain words that occur recurrently in the data. The
open codes are used to search for differences, similarities,
behavioral patterns, etc, with the aim of forming categories [
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].
The data were read and reviewed, and then a coding framework
was developed to summarize the grouping of emerging issues
from the data into core issues. The subsequent axial coding was
about identifying the core phenomenon, causal conditions,
resulting strategies (ie, related actions and interactions), context,
and consequences. The collected data from each interview were
further compared with each other and with the data from the
other interviews to find similarities, repetitions, or differences
in the emerging issues. Additional grouping codes were added
as new topics emerged during the comparison process. Finally,
all findings were extensively rereviewed by all authors to
validate the data and to gain a high-level understanding of the
collected information that would help to identify potential