As improper interviewing techniques may hamper the capacity of victims to report accurately the abusive experience they were subjected to, promoting and sustaining best-practice interviewer techniques, notably among police officers, should be prioritized [ 26].
A single study tested the hypothesis that simulated practice interviews for investigative interviewers of children are more effective when the role of the child respondent is played by trained actors (i.e., postgraduate psychology students) than untrained fellow participants (i.e., child protection workers).
All the 30 interviewers were trained and completed standard practice interviews before the survey to minimize interviewers' effect in affecting responses.
If you practice interviewing and prepare answers to questions the interviewer might ask, you will feel more relaxed during the real thing.
- The period for training interviewers and supervisors together should allow sufficient time for training on the selection of the sample, extensive role playing for practice interviews, and the observation and assessment of interviewers in the field by supervisors.
Here's some tips on how to do a practice interview, even if you don't have an interviewer.
Interviewer training included orientation to the study and its conceptual framework as well as practice interviews.
Peer-to-peer interviewing has been shown to enable interviewees to be more open about issues encountered in practice, with interviewers better placed to probe answers using their professional experience.
Telephone interviewers were trained and practiced interviewing each other before the survey.
It is also possible that women may have shown a tendency to report what they assumed to be desired practices although interviewers were trained to impress that there were no 'right' or 'wrong' answers and that all responses were valid, confidential and anonymous.
