Interview topic guides were used to steer rather than direct the interview conversations, with space to explore areas of significance to participants, following the path of the interviewee's dialogue [ 54].
The master tree will direct the interview to a complete cardiac history as part of the review of systems for a patient with pleuritic pain or a patient with a swallowing disorder manifesting as chest pain.
This activity was open-ended in terms of the topics related to each list, but was limited to three items in order to direct the interview towards priority issues.
The right questions not only talk about your abilities but also help you direct the interview towards the areas you are happy about.. Avoid asking about possible promotions.
We developed semi-structured interview and focus group guides to direct the interviews, although participants were free to raise other issues they believed important.
The topic list will be used to direct the interviews, but will be informally and flexible applied in order to prevent us from imposing our preconceptions.
Study data were collected qualitatively using a semi-structured interview guide developed based on the TPB constructs [ 21] to direct the interviews to ensure similar data about salient beliefs were collected.
A period of familiarisation with the data set by the lead researcher was followed by a process of coding whereby a priori themes directed by the interview topic guide, unexpected emergent themes and recurring viewpoints were identified.
A semi-structured interview guide with relevant probes was used to direct the cognitive interview process.
The quality assurance measures were directed at the interview technique, the preparation of the field work, the conduct of the study, and finally at the plausibility of the database.
