Deductive coding is a closed top-down method for describing and analysing your material.

In this exercise, you will code text sections based on nodes/categories defined in advance.

How to:

Create three new nodes: “Purpose of study”, “Intervention”, and “Type of fear”.

This is done by going to the menu “Create” > “Node”. Write the appropriate name in the field and click “OK”.
Repeat for all three nodes.

Open one (or more) of the articles in NVivo by double-clicking the document. (The articles can be found under “Data”>“Files”.)

Now code text sections with the newly created nodes: Mark the relevant text section and right-click the marked section. Choose "Code at exisitng...”. Choose one or more of the nodes from the list and click “OK”.
If you wish to see which codes, you have used in the document, click the top menu “View” and then the tab “Coding Stripes”. Choose “All Coding”. Your nodes will now show to the right of the document. If you click on a node, all the text coded with the node in question will now be highlighted in yellow in the document.
If you wish to highlight all text coded within the document, you once again go to the top menu “View”. Choose the tab “Highlight” and “All Coding”. All coded text will be highlighted in yellow. You cannot choose other colours than yellow for highlighting, so if you need to know which node the highlighted text represents, you will have to look in your “Coding Stripes” to the right of the document (see bullet above).

You can find your codings in the menu “Codes”>”Nodes”. Double-click a node to see which text sections you have coded with the particular node.