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Application of Qualitative Thematic Analysis to

Near-Death Experiences

Pétré B.1*, Cassol H.2*, Degrange S.1, Martial C.2, Charland-Verville V.2, Guillaume G.1, Laureys S.2

*jointly co-authors

1Departement of Public Health, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium

2Coma Science Group, GIGA Research Center and Neurology Department, University and University Hospital of Liège, Liège, Belgium

COMA SCIENCE GROUP – GIGA RESEARCH | www.comasciencegroup.org | Contact: hcassol@student.ulg.ac.be

Our results highlight the structure of NDE narratives and give a fuller overview of the vocabulary used by NDErs to describe such ineffable experiences. Despite some differences in the extracted themes, our data corroborate the content of existing tools such as the Greyson NDE-scale3

and are concomitant with studies supporting the universality of this phenomenon4.

A thematic analysis was carried out using Nvivo software (version 9.2 for Windows) on 34 narratives (written in French). This analysis enables to identify and report patterns within data1 and is commonly

used in qualitative research to classify data into thematic categories2. All study participants met the

inclusion criteria (i.e., Greyson NDE scale’s total score ≥ 73) to be qualified as NDErs.

This study aims to contribute to the characterization of near-death experiences (NDEs) by highlighting the main themes discussed by near-death experiencers (NDErs) as well as the vocabulary they use when portraying their experience. Two experts in qualitative thematic analysis, novices in the field of NDEs, processed the retrospective self-reported NDE narratives of cardiac arrest survivors.

Conclusion

Objectives

Methods

Results

REFERENCES

1 Braun, V. and Clarke, V. (2006) Using thematic analysis in psychology. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 3 (2). pp. 77-101.

2 Pope C, & Mays N. (2006). Qualitative research in health care. 3rd ed. Hoboken: Wiley.

3 Greyson, B. (1983). The near-death experience scale. Construction, reliability, and validity. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 171(6), 369–375.

4 Facco, E., Agrillo, C., & Greyson, B. (2015). Epistemological implications of near-death experiences and other non-ordinary mental expressions: Moving beyond the concept of altered state of consciousness. Medical Hypotheses, 85(1), 85–93.

Fig. 1. Frequency (%) of the identified NDE themes according to the

qualitative thematic analysis –by decreasing order.

0 20 40 60 80 100 Entrance in the NDE

Life events Awareness of death Out-of-body experience Darkness Description of scenes Hyperlucidity Meeting Altered time perception Leaving the NDE

Light NDE

themes

Examples of verbatim (gender; age; time since NDE in years)

Light “I moved forward. I was not walking. I felt attracted by the

light and only my will was making me move forward.” (Male; 53; 15)

Leaving the NDE

“Everything disappeared all at once and I once again saw the doctors and the firemen taking care of me. The paramedic told me that I just had a cardiac arrest of 30 seconds. 30 seconds only, even though I have the impression that a very long time went by!” (Male; 53; 4)

Altered time perception

“I am unable to tell how much time it lasted.” (Male; 66; 6)

Table 1. Examples of verbatim associated with NDEs most

reported themes.

The analysis enabled to identify 10 time-bounded themes which refer to isolated events within narratives, and 1 transversal theme (i.e., altered time perception) which characterizes the structure of the whole narrative and is not described as an isolated event. Frequency of the extracted themes and illustrative verbatim are given in Fig. 1 and Table 1, respectively.

Figure

Fig. 1. Frequency (%) of the identified NDE themes according to the  qualitative thematic analysis –by decreasing order

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