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Table 2 Superordinate and subordinate themes and prevalence within transcripts

From: Adolescents’ lived experience of panic disorder: an interpretative phenomenological analysis

Superordinate theme

Subordinate theme

Participant pseudonyms

Mia

Andrew

Emma

Olivia

Eva

Alexandra

Azita

Lilly

Drowning in sensation

“A vicious kind of circle”

*

*

*

*

*

 

*

*

“A different mentality”

*

*

*

*

 

*

*

*

Losing the battle

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

An unacceptable self

Under the social spotlight

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

The unhelpful helpers

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

The outsider

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

  1. * marks where theme was present in transcript