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Interviews in qualitative nursing research: differing approaches for ethnographic and phenomenological studies
Author(s) -
Sorrell Jeanne Merkle,
Redmond Georgine M
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
journal of advanced nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.948
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1365-2648
pISSN - 0309-2402
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2648.1995.21061117.x
Subject(s) - interview , qualitative research , ethnography , psychology , nursing research , style (visual arts) , data collection , nursing , sociology , medicine , social science , visual arts , anthropology , art
Interviews form an essential part of data collection for many qualitative nursing studies Information about how to individualize interview formats to meet the purpose and style of specific qualitative research approaches, however, is not readily accessible to the researcher This paper offers an overview of use of the interviewer as an instrument in qualitative research, as well as ways in which the differing purposes and styles of ethnographic and phenomenological research approaches affect the format for the interview