“The AI qualitative research tool Evidano has been used in other qualitative studies to identify themes from interview transcripts... supporting the qualitative data analysis process. Evidano was used to identify themes by research questions in the initial stage and to review alignment with the first authors themes and sub-themes. All AI-generated content was reviewed, revised, and validated by the first author to ensure accuracy, relevance, consistency, and alignment with the research objectives. The transcripts were compared with the AI-generated thematic coding and the first author’s coding to identify alignment with major themes, as well as sub-themes throughout the coding process to inform the different phases of the thematic analysis... AI technology was used as a thought partner to confirm and refine codes identified by the first author.”

“the anonymised interview transcriptions were further analysed using the AI tool Evidano (http://www.ailyze.com/). The research team compared the results from Evidano with those obtained from the initial manual analysis of the interviews for triangulation and validation purposes.”

“To support analytic triangulation, Evidano, an artificial intelligence (AI)–powered qualitative analysis tool was used to generate two independent thematic analyses: one based on AI‐generated coding and another using the researcher‐developed codebook. We compared the two AI thematic analyses with our coding. This process augmented our analysis to explore alignment of coding and enhance analytic reflexivity.”

“For data analysis, Evidano — an online tool for qualitative data analysis— was used. While Evidano is less commonly employed in qualitative research compared with more widely known software, its use was justified in this study owing to its ability to efficiently manage and analyze a large volume of text data while remaining user-friendly for the research team. The tool’s output was cross-checked manually by the researchers, and the results were validated by comparing them with the initial coding and through manual verification. This ensured the credibility and accuracy of the findings.”

“These passages underwent thematic analysis following Nowell et al.’s (2017) guidelines, utilizing Evidano (2023) for theme-based analysis. Evidano is an advanced tool for qualitative analysis that assists in identifying, categorizing, and refining themes within text assisting in the development of structured insights. We reviewed the generated themes to ensure they accurately reflected our findings. After careful scrutiny, we revised the language to create meaningful themes that represented the findings. The process included initial coding of definitions, theme development, theme refinement, and theme validation stages.”