Carrying out interviews

Table of Contents

1. Carrying out interviews
2. Structured interviews
3. Semi-structured interview.
4. Who to interview?
5. Sampling
6. How? Steps to a successful interview
7. More preparation
8. Order of questions
9. Asking questions
10. Asking questions
11. Probing and following up topics
12. Ways to manage the interview
13. Closing the interview
14. After the interview
15. After the interview
16. Thank you we hope you enjoyed this course and found it helpful.

Who to interview?

The people you interview need to be able to tell you what you want to know.

This sounds easy but sometimes people miss the most obvious point

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So if we want to know about ways to improve our existing rapid access chest pain clinic it's important to include which of the following people in our sample? a) People admitted to hospital following an episode of chest pain b) People suffering from conditions which might give rise to acute chest pain but who are currently well c) All people who have attended the clinic whoever they might be and whenever they attended d) A subset or sample of people who have attended the clinic within the last three months a) We would not want just people admitted to hospital as this is a very small sample of people attending the pain clinica) We would not want just people admitted to hospital as this is a very selected and small sample of the people attending the clinicb) These people have not attended the clinic so would not be able to give us any informationb) These people have not attended the clinic so would not be able to give us any informationc) This is who we are interested in but we would need a lot of time and money, so it is probably not very practicalc) This is the group we are interested in but would require a great deal of time and money, so is probably not very practicald) This is the group we are interested in, they will have a clear memory of evens as it is recent and it is probably a feasible number of peopled) This is the correct answer