Iheb Naceur

1 Introduction Qualitative research methods in dental research are invaluable for understanding participants' perspectives in their own words. These methods generate unstructured textual data from semi-structured or focus group interviews [1], which are typically recorded [2]. During analysis, a code is defined as a qualitative label (e.g., ‘staying healthy’ or ‘harmful’) used to identify and summarise the meaning of a text segment or theme relevant to the study aims or research questions [3, 4].

This is an early access version, the complete PDF, HTML, and XML versions will be available soon. Open AccessArticle by Raidan Ba-Hattab 1,†, Noha Barhom 1,†, Safa A. Azim Osman 1, Iheb Naceur 1, Aseel Odeh 1, Arisha Asad 1, Shahd Ali R. N. Al-Najdi 1, Ehsan Ameri 2, Ammar Daer 3, Renan L. B. Da Silva 4, Claudio Costa 4, Arthur R. G.