Pretesting and Revising Interview Guides by Huibrie Pieters
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Types of Interviews in Research
There are several types of interviews, often differentiated by their level of structure. Structured interviews have predetermined questions asked in a predetermined order. Unstructured interviews are more free-flowing. Semi-structured interviews fall in between. Interviews are commonly used in market research, social science, and ethnographic ...
Qualitative research method-interviewing and observation
Interviewing. This is the most common format of data collection in qualitative research. According to Oakley, qualitative interview is a type of framework in which the practices and standards be not only recorded, but also achieved, challenged and as well as reinforced.[] As no research interview lacks structure[] most of the qualitative research interviews are either semi-structured, lightly ...
Chapter 11. Interviewing
Introduction. Interviewing people is at the heart of qualitative research. It is not merely a way to collect data but an intrinsically rewarding activity—an interaction between two people that holds the potential for greater understanding and interpersonal development. Unlike many of our daily interactions with others that are fairly shallow ...
How to use and assess qualitative research methods
The methods of qualitative data collection most commonly used in health research are document study, observations, semi-structured interviews and focus groups [1, 14, 16, 17]. Document study These can include personal and non-personal documents such as archives, annual reports, guidelines, policy documents, diaries or letters.
Qualitative Interviewing
Qualitative interviewing is a foundational method in qualitative research and is widely used in health research and the social sciences. Both qualitative semi-structured and in-depth unstructured interviews use verbal communication, mostly in face-to-face interactions, to collect data about the attitudes, beliefs, and experiences of participants.
Interview Research
InterViews by Steinar Kvale Interviewing is an essential tool in qualitative research and this introduction to interviewing outlines both the theoretical underpinnings and the practical aspects of the process. After examining the role of the interview in the research process, Steinar Kvale considers some of the key philosophical issues relating ...
Interviews in the social sciences
Abstract. In-depth interviews are a versatile form of qualitative data collection used by researchers across the social sciences. They allow individuals to explain, in their own words, how they ...
How to Conduct a Qualitative Interview (2024 Guide)
A qualitative interview is a research technique used to gather in-depth information about people's experiences, attitudes, beliefs, and perceptions. Unlike a structured questionnaire or survey, a qualitative interview is a flexible, conversational approach that allows the interviewer to delve into the interviewee's responses and explore their ...
Interviews and focus groups in qualitative research: an update for the
The most common methods of data collection used in qualitative research are interviews and focus groups. While these are primarily conducted face-to-face, the ongoing evolution of digital ...
6 Qualitative Research and Interviews
6.1 Interviews. In-depth interviews allow participants to describe experiences in their own words (a primary strength of the interview format). Strong in-depth interviews will include many open-ended questions that allow participants to respond in their own words, share new ideas, and lead the conversation in different directions. The purpose of open-ended questions and in-depth interviews is ...
PDF Interviewing in Qualitative Research
Qualitative interview is a broad term uniting semi-structured and unstructured interviews. Quali-tative interviewing is less structured and more likely to evolve as a natural conversation; it is of-ten conducted in the form of respondents narrating their personal experiences or life histories. Qualitative interviews can be part of ethnography ...
How to carry out great interviews in qualitative research
A qualitative research interview is a one-to-one data collection session between a researcher and a participant. Interviews may be carried out face-to-face, over the phone or via video call using a service like Skype or Zoom. There are three main types of qualitative research interview - structured, unstructured or semi-structured.
Interviewing in Qualitative Research
In case of the qualitative research, it is more suitable to use the word 'conversation' instead of 'the interview' due to its interactive and co-constructive character. The unstructured interview is the most popular method used by qualitative researchers to collect data (Silverman 2006). However, in order to utilize this method most ...
Interviews in Qualitative Research
Abstract. Qualitative interviews are widely used in qualitative and mixed methods research designs in applied linguistics, including case studies, ethnographies, interview studies, and narrative research. This entry discusses commonly used forms of interviews and provides examples to show how researchers use interview accounts to generate ...
How To Do Qualitative Interviews For Research
5. Not keeping your golden thread front of mind. We touched on this a little earlier, but it is a key point that should be central to your entire research process. You don't want to end up with pages and pages of data after conducting your interviews and realize that it is not useful to your research aims.
The qualitative research interview
In this article we briefly review the more common qualitative interview methods and then focus on the widely used individual face-to-face in-depth interview, which seeks to foster learning about individual experiences and perspectives on a given set of issues. ... The qualitative research interview Med Educ. 2006 Apr;40(4):314-21. doi: 10.1111 ...
Qualitative Research: Getting Started
Those unfamiliar with qualitative research may assume that "anyone" can interview, observe, or facilitate a focus group; however, it is important to recognize that the quality of data collected through qualitative methods is a direct reflection of the skills and competencies of the researcher. 13 The hardest thing to do during an interview ...
Getting more out of interviews. Understanding interviewees' accounts in
Qualitative interviews - ranging from unstructured to open-ended and to provocative - are methodologically well-established tools of social-scientific data gathering (see i.e. Kvale and Brinkmann, 2009; Roulston, 2010). They are very common in social sciences when it comes to studying the perspectives, experiences, explanations and ...
Planning Qualitative Research: Design and Decision Making for New
Qualitative research, conducted thoughtfully, is internally consistent, rigorous, and helps us answer important questions about people and their lives (Lincoln & Guba, 1985). These fundamental epistemological foundations are key for developing the right research mindset before designing and conducting qualitative research. ... Interviews with ...
(PDF) Interviewing in qualitative research
Using a qualitative approach, the data for this research was collected using face-to-face interviews, with 10 older persons and 5 grandchildren over the age of 17 years in skip-generation households.
Introduction: making the case for qualitative interviews
Fabienne Portier-Le Cocq is Professor of Contemporary British Studies at the University of Tours in France and is a member of the University Paris-Sorbonne HDEA (EA 4086) research group. Her research focuses on British and European comparative studies though qualitative interviews. She has published widely on teenage motherhood, teenage parenting, families, and related themes.
Thematic Analysis for Interviews
Thematic analysis is a widely used method in qualitative research for identifying, analyzing, and reporting patterns (themes) within data. It organizes and describes the data set in detail and interprets various aspects of the research topic. When applied to interview data, thematic analysis allows researchers to sift through large volumes of ...
Expanding Qualitative Interviewing for Studies Involving Adults With
In this paper, we reflect on our experiences of carrying out qualitative research interviews with people living with motor neurone disease (MND) in two research studies addressing aspects of palliative and end of life care. We discuss how we adapted and expanded approaches to qualitative interviewing to address the needs of our study population ...
A qualitative interview study to determine barriers and facilitators of
Genomics is among the most data-prolific scientific fields and is expected to surpass the storage needs and analytic capacities of Twitter, YouTube, and astronomy combined by as soon as 2025 [].To meet rising demands for genomic data and their efficient collection and use, national genomics initiatives [] rely on largescale repositories to pool data resources and incentivize data sharing [3,4,5].
What is Thematic Analysis?
Thematic analysis is a central method in qualitative research used to identify patterns within data. Under a thematic analysis paradigm, researchers analyze qualitative data to organize and describe their dataset in detail through themes and motifs that emerge from the data itself. This approach is flexible and can be applied across a wide ...
Interview
Interviews are the most used form of data collection in qualitative research. Interviews are used in marketing research as a tool that a firm may utilize to gain an understanding of how consumers think, or as a tool in the form of cognitive interviewing (or cognitive pretesting) for improving questionnaire design.
A qualitative study of experiences with physical activity among people
Design. This is a qualitative study using semi-structured interviews. The study was designed as part of the ATLAS4LAR project [], which has established a cohort and a health registry for OAT patients in Stavanger and Bergen.The interview guide, collaboratively created with clinicians and people with user experience, also encompasses topics related to participants perspectives on nutrition and ...
Identifying gaps in healthcare: a qualitative study of Ukrainian
Refugees constitute a vulnerable group of people and this was considered during the study's conception and research design. The interview questions were checked in advance to ensure that personal events and memories related to the flight experience were not discussed, thus minimizing the potential for retraumatization during the interviews.
Drivers of district-level differences in outpatient antibiotic
International research suggests that such regional differences in outpatient prescriptions cannot be fully explained by regional differences in ... [22, 23]) was used to guide qualitative interviews with prescribers. The TDF is a psychological model developed for healthcare and behaviour change research and is based on comprehensive reviews of ...
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There are several types of interviews, often differentiated by their level of structure. Structured interviews have predetermined questions asked in a predetermined order. Unstructured interviews are more free-flowing. Semi-structured interviews fall in between. Interviews are commonly used in market research, social science, and ethnographic ...
Interviewing. This is the most common format of data collection in qualitative research. According to Oakley, qualitative interview is a type of framework in which the practices and standards be not only recorded, but also achieved, challenged and as well as reinforced.[] As no research interview lacks structure[] most of the qualitative research interviews are either semi-structured, lightly ...
Introduction. Interviewing people is at the heart of qualitative research. It is not merely a way to collect data but an intrinsically rewarding activity—an interaction between two people that holds the potential for greater understanding and interpersonal development. Unlike many of our daily interactions with others that are fairly shallow ...
The methods of qualitative data collection most commonly used in health research are document study, observations, semi-structured interviews and focus groups [1, 14, 16, 17]. Document study These can include personal and non-personal documents such as archives, annual reports, guidelines, policy documents, diaries or letters.
Qualitative interviewing is a foundational method in qualitative research and is widely used in health research and the social sciences. Both qualitative semi-structured and in-depth unstructured interviews use verbal communication, mostly in face-to-face interactions, to collect data about the attitudes, beliefs, and experiences of participants.
InterViews by Steinar Kvale Interviewing is an essential tool in qualitative research and this introduction to interviewing outlines both the theoretical underpinnings and the practical aspects of the process. After examining the role of the interview in the research process, Steinar Kvale considers some of the key philosophical issues relating ...
Abstract. In-depth interviews are a versatile form of qualitative data collection used by researchers across the social sciences. They allow individuals to explain, in their own words, how they ...
A qualitative interview is a research technique used to gather in-depth information about people's experiences, attitudes, beliefs, and perceptions. Unlike a structured questionnaire or survey, a qualitative interview is a flexible, conversational approach that allows the interviewer to delve into the interviewee's responses and explore their ...
The most common methods of data collection used in qualitative research are interviews and focus groups. While these are primarily conducted face-to-face, the ongoing evolution of digital ...
6.1 Interviews. In-depth interviews allow participants to describe experiences in their own words (a primary strength of the interview format). Strong in-depth interviews will include many open-ended questions that allow participants to respond in their own words, share new ideas, and lead the conversation in different directions. The purpose of open-ended questions and in-depth interviews is ...
Qualitative interview is a broad term uniting semi-structured and unstructured interviews. Quali-tative interviewing is less structured and more likely to evolve as a natural conversation; it is of-ten conducted in the form of respondents narrating their personal experiences or life histories. Qualitative interviews can be part of ethnography ...
A qualitative research interview is a one-to-one data collection session between a researcher and a participant. Interviews may be carried out face-to-face, over the phone or via video call using a service like Skype or Zoom. There are three main types of qualitative research interview - structured, unstructured or semi-structured.
In case of the qualitative research, it is more suitable to use the word 'conversation' instead of 'the interview' due to its interactive and co-constructive character. The unstructured interview is the most popular method used by qualitative researchers to collect data (Silverman 2006). However, in order to utilize this method most ...
Abstract. Qualitative interviews are widely used in qualitative and mixed methods research designs in applied linguistics, including case studies, ethnographies, interview studies, and narrative research. This entry discusses commonly used forms of interviews and provides examples to show how researchers use interview accounts to generate ...
5. Not keeping your golden thread front of mind. We touched on this a little earlier, but it is a key point that should be central to your entire research process. You don't want to end up with pages and pages of data after conducting your interviews and realize that it is not useful to your research aims.
In this article we briefly review the more common qualitative interview methods and then focus on the widely used individual face-to-face in-depth interview, which seeks to foster learning about individual experiences and perspectives on a given set of issues. ... The qualitative research interview Med Educ. 2006 Apr;40(4):314-21. doi: 10.1111 ...
Those unfamiliar with qualitative research may assume that "anyone" can interview, observe, or facilitate a focus group; however, it is important to recognize that the quality of data collected through qualitative methods is a direct reflection of the skills and competencies of the researcher. 13 The hardest thing to do during an interview ...
Qualitative interviews - ranging from unstructured to open-ended and to provocative - are methodologically well-established tools of social-scientific data gathering (see i.e. Kvale and Brinkmann, 2009; Roulston, 2010). They are very common in social sciences when it comes to studying the perspectives, experiences, explanations and ...
Qualitative research, conducted thoughtfully, is internally consistent, rigorous, and helps us answer important questions about people and their lives (Lincoln & Guba, 1985). These fundamental epistemological foundations are key for developing the right research mindset before designing and conducting qualitative research. ... Interviews with ...
Using a qualitative approach, the data for this research was collected using face-to-face interviews, with 10 older persons and 5 grandchildren over the age of 17 years in skip-generation households.
Fabienne Portier-Le Cocq is Professor of Contemporary British Studies at the University of Tours in France and is a member of the University Paris-Sorbonne HDEA (EA 4086) research group. Her research focuses on British and European comparative studies though qualitative interviews. She has published widely on teenage motherhood, teenage parenting, families, and related themes.
Thematic analysis is a widely used method in qualitative research for identifying, analyzing, and reporting patterns (themes) within data. It organizes and describes the data set in detail and interprets various aspects of the research topic. When applied to interview data, thematic analysis allows researchers to sift through large volumes of ...
In this paper, we reflect on our experiences of carrying out qualitative research interviews with people living with motor neurone disease (MND) in two research studies addressing aspects of palliative and end of life care. We discuss how we adapted and expanded approaches to qualitative interviewing to address the needs of our study population ...
Genomics is among the most data-prolific scientific fields and is expected to surpass the storage needs and analytic capacities of Twitter, YouTube, and astronomy combined by as soon as 2025 [].To meet rising demands for genomic data and their efficient collection and use, national genomics initiatives [] rely on largescale repositories to pool data resources and incentivize data sharing [3,4,5].
Thematic analysis is a central method in qualitative research used to identify patterns within data. Under a thematic analysis paradigm, researchers analyze qualitative data to organize and describe their dataset in detail through themes and motifs that emerge from the data itself. This approach is flexible and can be applied across a wide ...
Interviews are the most used form of data collection in qualitative research. Interviews are used in marketing research as a tool that a firm may utilize to gain an understanding of how consumers think, or as a tool in the form of cognitive interviewing (or cognitive pretesting) for improving questionnaire design.
Design. This is a qualitative study using semi-structured interviews. The study was designed as part of the ATLAS4LAR project [], which has established a cohort and a health registry for OAT patients in Stavanger and Bergen.The interview guide, collaboratively created with clinicians and people with user experience, also encompasses topics related to participants perspectives on nutrition and ...
Refugees constitute a vulnerable group of people and this was considered during the study's conception and research design. The interview questions were checked in advance to ensure that personal events and memories related to the flight experience were not discussed, thus minimizing the potential for retraumatization during the interviews.
International research suggests that such regional differences in outpatient prescriptions cannot be fully explained by regional differences in ... [22, 23]) was used to guide qualitative interviews with prescribers. The TDF is a psychological model developed for healthcare and behaviour change research and is based on comprehensive reviews of ...