Semi-structured interviews offered the opportunity to build rapport [ 74] with the interviewees, to explore socio-cultural and environmental influences on family dietary choices, thus allow reflection on parents' described 'lived experiences' [ 75].
The interview guide, broken down by TDF domain, is attached for information (see Additional file 2); however, it was used as a guide allowing the interviewee to explore areas in the order they preferred and at their own pace.
Focused interviews are a particularly useful tool to employ in an area where little is known, they are also flexible enough to allow the interviewer and interviewee to explore potentially sensitive and challenging issues which are pertinent to the individual.
They are flexible enough to allow interviewer and interviewee to explore issues which are pertinent to the individual person which had not been anticipated in advance, thus enabling a fuller understanding of the processes at work to emerge.
The intention was to explore the interviewees´ understanding of the cases given.
The questions were designed to explore the interviewees' awareness and experience of undertaking evidence-base practice, doing research and developing guidelines or protocols.
When designing clinically focused studies, it may therefore be useful to explore the interviewees' suggestions of increasing the use of information technology for data collection and forming collaborations with local healthcare services to minimise participant travel.
From a social constructionist approach (see Burr [1995]), attitudes are captured through methods such as interviews as these allow the researcher to explore the interviewee's current perception, to clarify issues (Slater et al. [2011]), and to obtain in-depth qualitative data.
Specific verbal communication techniques appropriately help to explore the interviewee's experience.
To explore the future migration plans of interviewees and the factors influencing those decisions.
