I am working through a quarter of my transcripts initially, this is to allow me to refine and adjust the framework I am using.  I have indexed 7 transcripts and already realised that applying Kleinman's Semantic Illness Network, and the 5 Parts of the Illness Experience at this stage are an analytical step too far.  I am therefore indexing the transcripts and creating charts for background information; Kleinman's 8 Questions; Depression themes; Antidepressant themes; and themes such as stigma, recovery, self etc. 

This appears to be working well; the plan is to then review these charts which will have been derived from the 7 transcripts with my PhD Supervisors in early October where we can further refine the Framework process.  From these initial charts I think I will then be more easily able to create second level charts for the Semantic Illness Network and also Illness Experience.

What has been interesting though is the indexing process.  I have been through the transcripts and indexed them numerically section by section, but now when I go back through the transcripts to chart them according to the indexing theme I have become more aware of deeper meanings and linkages in the data and have in some places had to revise my initial index category to something else. 

So far, I have found Framework a very useful data analysis tool which is not only adaptable but also provides a way of being able to index and chart all the data.