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The qualitative research interview
Author(s) -
DiCiccoBloom Barbara,
Crabtree Benjamin F
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
medical education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.776
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1365-2923
pISSN - 0308-0110
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2929.2006.02418.x
Subject(s) - interview , qualitative research , semi structured interview , focus group , medical education , psychology , meaning (existential) , set (abstract data type) , participant observation , applied psychology , medicine , sociology , psychotherapist , computer science , social science , anthropology , programming language
Background Interviews are among the most familiar strategies for collecting qualitative data. The different qualitative interviewing strategies in common use emerged from diverse disciplinary perspectives resulting in a wide variation among interviewing approaches. Unlike the highly structured survey interviews and questionnaires used in epidemiology and most health services research, we examine less structured interview strategies in which the person interviewed is more a participant in meaning making than a conduit from which information is retrieved. Purpose 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. We discuss methods for conducting in‐depth interviews and consider relevant ethical issues with particular regard to the rights and protection of the participants.