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Table 4 Demographic details of the participants in the fieldwork phase

From: A cross-cultural concept analysis of healing in nursing: a hybrid model

Participant

Number/Gender

Mean age

Level of education

Nurse

2 women/2 men

38

3 undergraduates/1 postgraduate

Physician

2 men

36

2 internists

Muslim clergyman

2 men

45

1 undergraduate/1 postgraduate

General public

1 woman/ 1 man

33

1 undergraduate/1 Nursing PhD student

  1. Data were coded based on the interviews, which yielded over 400 initial codes. Duplicate codes were eliminated, and the remaining codes were categorized by their differences and similarities. The findings of this stage were divided into five themes, each of which is briefly explained as follows: