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Here we describe a new method,\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Conceptual Scaffold Analysis,<\/jats:italic>\n                    for applying a relevant, mature lay concept (from the literature) as a focus within a research proposal. This method enables analyzing and integrating a concept into your proposed methods, expedites inquiry, provides an organizing framework, and reconstructs understanding. We present a selection of mature concepts pertinent to nursing that may be used for\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Conceptual Scaffold Analysis.<\/jats:italic>\n                    As a complete method,\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Conceptual Scaffold Analysis<\/jats:italic>\n                    may serve as the qualitative (QUAL) component in a mixed method project, enhancing the\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">qual<\/jats:italic>\n                    method for the sequential component, thereby enabling advanced theory development. We present an example of\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Conceptual Scaffold Analysis<\/jats:italic>\n                    on a topic critical to nursing and public health: the importance of mothers\u2019 trust in vaccinating their infants and children with developmental disabilities. Analysis\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">of trust<\/jats:italic>\n                    is used to organize the main QUAL component, contributing to a mixed methods design, as a scaffold for the analysis of the\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">qual<\/jats:italic>\n                    supplemental research study to follow. Thus, the concept analytic structure, developed from the scaffold analysis, expedites and enriches the subsequent qualitative component, strengthening an inductive mixed-method qualitative process.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1177\/23333936261455156","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,6,3]],"date-time":"2026-06-03T10:03:25Z","timestamp":1780481005000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/sage-journals-update-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["<i>Conceptual Scaffold Analysis<\/i>\n                    Using Mature Lay Concepts when Constructing Qualitative Theory"],"prefix":"10.1177","volume":"13","author":[{"given":"Janice M.","family":"Morse","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"University of Utah, College of Nursing, Salt Lake City, Utah"},{"name":"University of Alberta, Faculty of Nursing, Edmonton, Alberta"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7668-2149","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Lauren","family":"Clark","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"University of California Los Angeles"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"179","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,6,3]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_3_5_2_1","volume-title":"The Professional Stranger","author":"Agar M. 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