Week 14: Qualitative Interviews Flashcards
What are interviews?
Interviews and focus groups are the most common methods of data collection used in qualitative healthcare research, and can be used to explore the views, experiences, beliefs and motivations of individual participants
What are the different types of interviews?
- structured
- semi-structured
- unstructured
- focus group
What are narrative interviews?
An interviews that puts peoples at the heart of a research study, they are a means if collection of peoples own stories about their experiences of health and illness
What are some positives about narrative interviews?
- better understand peoples behaviours
- come closer to representing the content and integrity of more quantitative means of research
What are the 4 stages of a narrative interview?
- introduction and explanation
- the narrative
- questioning phase
- conclusion
What are some pros of a structured interview?
- fast
- less bias
- easy to use
What are cons about structured interviews?
- lack of depth
- doesn’t explore full experience
What are pros of a semi-structured interview?
- combines benefits of both structured and unstructured
What are cons of semi-structured interviews?
-has both drawbacks but at a reduced level
What are pros of an unstructured interview?
- fully explored experience
- allows for further probing flexible
- respondents open up more
What are cons of an unstructured interview?
- longer
- introduces bias
- hard to generalise findings
What are pros of a focus group?
- efficient
- some interviewees more open in a group setting
- less expensive
What are some cons of a focus group interviews?
- required good group leadership skills
- risk of social desirability
- confidentially not guaranteed
