It draws on the findings of an in-depth interpretive study conducted from May to November 2013 that examined the relative contribution of varied green and blue space experiences to individual wellbeing through the life course.
This research sought to address this gap, by adopting a semiotic framework of analysis, and undertaking an in-depth, interpretive case study of the customer service operations at the call center of a large retail firm.
Clarke & Everest 31 suggest that latent qualitative content includes the investigation of deeper and perhaps unintended themes, requiring more in-depth interpretive analytical qualities of qualitative methods to make inferences from data.
Some data were treated descriptively due to the nature of questioning, while more in-depth discussion involved greater interpretive analysis into themes.
The study collected data through in-depth interviews, and an interpretive analytic approach was applied to elicit deep meanings of the lived experiences.
The study design limited the co-construction of knowledge between the participant and researcher and, as such, future research should include an interpretive design with in-depth qualitative interviews.
This is an interpretive approach that allows an in-depth, exploratory study of experiences from both an emic perspective, i.e. the inside view of the case managers, and an etic perspective, i.e. the outside view of the researcher [ 30].
Based on an interpretive ethnographic approach [ 17] in-depth interviews permitted exploration of lived experience from the vantage point of children and adolescents' life world, perspectives and meanings.
As the findings reflected an interpretive process, they were not changed, but additional in-depth data were collected through the third interview on the participants' hope experience.
Design: For this interpretive study, data were collected from 11 clients via in-depth interviews and a questionnaire eliciting demographic details and written comment.
In this qualitative study, Thorne's [ 12] interpretive description methodological approach was used to achieve a more in-depth understanding of the concept of hope in family caregivers of persons with dementia living in LTC.
