Much of the time, Johnson takes a fly-on-the-wall approach, but she is also there to guide interviewees, from courtroom attorneys to terrified young women at a health clinic.
Visual aids with possible response options will guide interviewees in the different standardized questionnaires.
Conducted in a northern community of Seoul, Korea, from April 2014 to November 2015, data collection methods included 90 walking tours by researchers, 46 face-to-face, semi-structured interviews combined with qualitative mapping with senior residents aged 65 +, 19 guided tours with the interviewees, and 3 focus groups with 12 community service providers.
Home observations were guided by a checklist and interviewees wrote up their observations in English.
Sampling of (staff) interviewees will be guided by individual unit observations and will include those responsible for service delivery and evaluation; therapists with differing levels of experience and other MDT members engaged in facilitating, providing or continuing therapy, related to the 45 min recommendation.
These interviews were conducted either face-to-face or over the telephone depending on the preference of the interviewee and were guided by the information obtained in Stage 1.
The selection of participants for the interviews was guided by strategic sampling, i.e. interviewees should represent different modalities of healthcare.
As our focus group interviewees freely admitted, our choices are guided to a large extent by the retail environment around us.
In the first stage of the interview, interviewees determined themes rather than being guided by the interviewer.
Interviews, guided by topic guides (see online supplementary appendix II), will explore interviewees' perceptions associated with ePrescribing and work tasks.
