Exploring a Research Method - Interview

The qualitative research interview.

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 examin...

Exploring Technology Frames through Interview Narratives

As information technology innovation becomes increasingly complex and as information technologies diffuse into new professions and institutional contexts, researchers are looking to project participants and organizational members to understand how their interpretations of technology influence change processes and outcomes. Technology frames of reference (TFR) is a well-established theoretic fra...

The CITRA research-practice consensus-workshop model: exploring a new method of research translation in aging.

PURPOSE On the basis of the experience of an extensive community-based research partnership in New York City, we developed an innovative process for bridging the gap between aging-related research and practice, using a consensus-workshop model. DESIGN AND METHODS We adapted the traditional scientific consensus-workshop model to include translation of the research into nontechnical language an...

The interview in qualitative research.

can telephone interview be considered as an appropriate data collection method in health research?

one of the most important challenges for researchers is deciding on how to collect their data. there are various views on using telephone interviews. conducting telephone interviews on women of 40 years old and older in isfahan about mammography screening behavior showed that it could be an appropriate method for data collection when there is a combination of effective communication process and...