Interviews 3
Interviews 3 : Interviews are ways of gaining information about the views of intervention participants, by talking to them. They are a method of systematic data collection and can be conducted face to face or via telephone. The interviewer follows a topic guide which can range from highly structured to very loosely structured. In-depth Interview: An in-depth interview allows the interviewer to increase their understanding of the issues involved by probing each interviewee about his or her answers. A loosely structured topic guide is used to steer the discussion and ensure the major interests are covered in each interview. The loose structure of the topic guide (also known as an interview guide) encourages the interviewee to raise issues that may not have occurred to the interviewer. Semi-structured Interview: A semi-structured interview consists of pre-determined questions but the interviewer does not have to ask the questions in the same rigid way for all participants. The interviewer is also free to expand on questions, and ask additional questions, in response to the answers given. Structured Interview: A structured interview is the same as a questionnaire in that there is a fixed set of questions that are asked of all respondents. A structured interview is different to a questionnaire by the fact that the questions are read out by an interviewer, and not given to respondents to self-complete
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