A telephonic semi-structured interview was used to collect data. The data was recorded through an audio-recording device available in a mobile phone. The data were analyzed by using the Narrative Thematic Analysis Method (Creswell, 2014). The basic questions covered the sources, causes and impacts of Corona disease on human life. The data collection was started after the approval of the proposal by the Ethics committee [BLINDED FOR REVIEW]. No new themes and codes generating from additional interviews consistent with the research questions were indicative of the saturation (Saunders et al., 2018). Some initial discussions and a pilot study on four participants were carried out to come up with a useful preliminary interview protocol.
Each participant was assigned a code to determine the confidentiality and checking/rechecking of the codes ascertained reliability. The analysis started with reading and rereading the transcriptions to develop familiarity and insights from the data (Barbour, 2001). Early coding of three interviews was done by the authors to assess the appropriateness of the coding framework. The coding framework was assessed regularly to add any significant change in the criteria. Finally, the codes were updated and combined to come up with the relevant codes and to finalize the themes (Guest et al., 2012). According to the suggestions of the American Psychological Association Journal Article Reporting Standards (Levitt et al., 2018), details of the qualitative methods used in this study have been presented in Table 2.
Table 2. Detailed descriptions of the methods┼