Hi everyone,

I have a very basic NVIVO question that I somehow haven't managed to figure out after hours of scouring the internet.

It's my first time coding a focus group with NVIVO. This means that there are multiple (15) participants in the same source document. When I code this document to different theme nodes and I subsequently open one of the theme nodes, the program doesn't show me who said what.

Is there a way to tell NVIVO in the source document which fragments were spoken by which participants so that it subsequently shows up in the theme nodes. Here's an example of what I mean:



Right now, for example under the theme node of "fishing", it only says:

Reference 1
...quote

Reference 2
...quote

Whereas what I want it to show me is:

Reference 1 - participant 5
....quote

Reference 2 - participant 14
.....quote



I've read about the possibility of making cases, so that when you open a case node, e.g. participant 5, you can see everything that participant 5 said - I get that.

But I specifically need to be able to see WHICH participants said WHAT about a theme node, e.g. fishing in the sea. And I need to see all of the answers about this theme node together, so I can compare what people said about it.

Can anyone help me out?

Thanks!

One option is to add an additional node for each piece of text with the speaker- i.e. create nodes of speaker 1, speaker 2 etc.