A nurse is interested in understanding the meaning of the human experience of surviving polio. Subject recruitment targets persons who have been diagnosed with the disease. The researcher reflects on the data and identifies common themes in order to understand the "lived experience." These characteristics are consistent with the qualitative research method known as:
A) grounded theory.
B) ethnography.
C) phenomenology.
D) case study.

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Phenomenology is a qualitative research design that uses inductive descriptive methodology to describe the lived experiences of study participants.

A Nurse Is Interested in Understanding the Meaning of the Human