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Table 2 Theme counts

From: Towards an understanding of the information and support needs of surgical adolescent idiopathic scoliosis patients: a qualitative analysis

Theme

# of Passages*

# of Documents**

- Recovery at home

48

5

- Pain control***

10

3

- Recovery in hospital

21

5

- Post-surgical appearance

20

5

- Emotional impact of surgery

18

5

- Coping***

12

4

- Impact on activities

14

4

- Instrumentation***

11

4

- School

13

4

- Social interactions***

13

4

- Friends***

11

2

- Making the decision to have surgery

11

4

- Being in the operating room

8

2

- Future worries

7

2

  1. * # of Passages is the number of times that each theme was coded across all documents.
  2. ** # of Documents defined as the number of focus groups and interviews (max of 5) in which the theme emerged.
  3. *** Some themes were grouped together when discussed here as they are inter-related; however each theme was coded (and counted) independently.