This identified broad areas to be covered together with examples of suggested probes (see Box 1), although the interviewer was also free to follow up other issues that might arise and to probe and clarify responses.
Both the CRF and structured questionnaire were reviewed prior to interviews and the information was used to probe and clarify responses provided by the patients.
In Phase 3, we used Design v2, shown in Figure 8, to probe and clarify with participants their desired reporting parameters.
If program staff were not absolutely clear on the meaning of the words or phrases used by participants, extra time was taken to (probe) discuss and clarify the meanings.
Questions were open-ended in order to encourage a range of responses, and probes and clarifying questions were used to stimulate further discussion.
These authors found that "direct teaching" (our Providing Reasoning category) was much less successful at getting students to generate warrants than "probing and clarifying" interactions (our Prompting Question and Requesting Reasoning categories).
At what point, or with what specific complications, the TBAs would take the pregnant woman to the hospital often remained vague in the discussions, despite much probing and clarifying questions.
The interview questions were posed in general terms to allow the respondents to explore each issue from their own perspective, with the interviewer probing and clarifying their line of thought to more fully understand the respondents' point of view.
This chapter reviews the advanced biotechnology and computational biology efforts necessary to make sense of the astronomical amount of cancer genomics data to identify novel biomarkers for developing targeted imaging probes and therapeutics, and clarify the achievements, opportunities, and challenges for genomics-based cancer theranostics.
The researchers explored rival explanations, probed biases, and clarified the basis of interpretation, in order to enhance the credibility of the analysis.
During the interview, the participants' responses to the main questions (as in the protocol) were followed to expand their comments and explore the issues in depth through probing, rephrasing, and clarifying.
