This section briefly reviews ethical issues relevant to qualitative research. It is intended to be responsible for a context for discussion in subsequent modules of techniques for protecting research participants and their interests. (Mack et al., 2005) However, ethical consideration guarantee that as researchers, we specifically consider the needs and concerns of the general population to the study, this is to establish the basis of trust between researchers and study participants. Additionally whenever a research is conducted on people, the welfare of research participants must be the top priority.
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According to (Fereday & Muir-Cochrane 2006; Guest et al., 2012). Thematic analysis is a qualitative research analytic method for identifying, analyzing and reporting data by recognizing pattern with, so that identified themes become categories for analysis.
Therefore, the thematic analysis presents data in themes. A theme is a pattern found in information that describes and organizes likely opinions or interprets aspects of the occurrence (Boyatzis, 1998).
In this case, thematic analysis was used in this study to interpret data from focus group. The main themes from above mentioned data sources are; knowledge and awareness, cultural factors, these themes were taken based on the research questions with appropriate links to the theories that informed this study.
The data collected from focus group discussions will be analyzed deeply because views and perceptions would be marked to final results. These views and perceptions constitute beliefs that students have, thus analyzing them is primary objective of this section. A narrative analysis will be used as a tool because it permits a researcher to verify if the compiled narrative make sense (Neuman