Walden University Preparing for the Interview Journal For this week’s Journal, consider the following questions and capture your own brainstorming response

Walden University Preparing for the Interview Journal For this week’s Journal, consider the following questions and capture your own brainstorming responses to them in a text Journal entry.

Progress: When is it appropriate to use in-depth interviews?
Problems: What are the features, problems, and pitfalls of interviewing?
Plans:
How will you organize your interview?
How will you incorporate the concepts from your theory/model into your interview guide?
What other resources or support will you need to develop a good data collection tool?
BY DAY 7

Submit your written Journal entry to your Instructor. Interview Guide Worksheet
1. Restate the RQ, and define the phenomenon of interest.
2. Review your literature on the phenomena of interest.
7. For each question you ask, follow up with one or more of the following
probes (probing questions encourage the participant to describe specific
events and examples of the phenomena).
• Identify recurring patterns, conflicting ideas, or unique findings
• Can you give me a specific example of …?
• Choose 3 to 5 of these as potential topics for developing questions
• Tell me about a typical day when [the phenomenon] happens to you?
• Identify keywords and phrases that will form the basis of your
questions.
• What did that experience mean to you?
3. Review your theoretical/conceptual framework
• Identify 3 to 5 concepts or assumptions that are fundamental
to the framework
• Identify keywords and phrases that will form the basis of your
questions.
4. Review methodological sources of your approach.
• What are the structural or key points that need to be included
in the interview guide so that it is consistent with the
approach?
5. Arrange the literature topics, framework concepts and methodological
points into beginning, middle and end of interview.
6. Modify each concept so that it becomes an open-ended question. Use
these guidelines as well as Patton’s examples (Chapter 7) to make sure the
phenomenon of interest is thoroughly investigated.
8. Formulate an introduction to the interview. Start with an accessible, answerable question.
• Begin the interview with a “warm-up” question—something that the
respondent can answer easily and at some length (though not too
long). Make sure the question pertains to the phenomenon of interest,
and will put you and the participant more at ease with one another to
make the rest of the interview flow more smoothly.
9. Review the concepts questions, and consider which concepts will be hard to
talk about? Embarrassing? Move these concepts towards the middle of the
interview.
10. Consider how you want to close the interview (“Is there anything else you’d
like to share with me before we finish this interview?”). What can you say that
will let the participant know they were “heard” and respected?
11. What do you need to communicate to the participant to “debrief”? This
typically includes (1) how you will get in touch in order to have the participant
verify the accuracy of the interview; and (2) what you will share with the
participant once the study is completed.
• Make every question open-ended.
• Make every question neutral. Avoid leading questions, and avoid using
words that direct how the participant should answer.
• Ask only one question at a time.
• Make sure that the content of the question is consistent with
the participant’s level of education and culture.
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Interview Guide – Bad and Good Examples
Bad Examples
Good Examples
1. What did it feel like to have a heart attack
Too direct and obvious
2. What happened when you had your heart attack and were you scared?
Two questions in one
3. Why did you want to stay in the hospital?
1. Let’s begin with what you can tell me about your illness – when you
knew you that you were not feeling well.
2. What were the circumstances surrounding your heart attack? Can you
tell me what happened?
3. Tell me more about your hospital experience.
Avoid why questions. They encourage rationalization, rather than experience
4. Are you following the doctor’s orders to take care of yourself?
This is a yes/no question
5. What are the factors of your recovery?
4. Since then, you’ve been in recovery. Tell me about a typical day – what
do you do to take care of yourself?
5. What part of your recovery is going well?
Asking about factors encourages participants to make lists, and the items do not have a depth of response
6. What factors are getting in the way of your recovery?
6. What is the most difficult part about managing your disease?
Asking about factors encourages participants to make lists, and the items do not have a depth of response
7. How do you manage to remember to take your pills?
7. Tell me about how you are managing the medical prescriptions?
Too specific. Ask broad open-ended questions.
8. What’s the most important thing you are doing to help you recover?
8. What are you doing to help yourself recover?
This encourages your participant to think of whatever comes to mind first.
9. Do you feel you are in charge of your recovery?
9. What is your experience of being in charge of your recovery?
Yes/no question
10. How helpful or unhelpful is your family in your recovery
10. Tell me about the role of your family in your recovery.
Two questions in one – confusing
11. How do you like your doctor?
11. Tell me about your relationship with your doctor.
Too broad
12. What do you need to make your recovery go more smoothly?
Too broad
13. Is there anything else you’d like to tell me about your condition or your
recovery?
Two questions in one
12. What support or resource do you think would make your recovery go
more smoothly?
13. Is there anything else you’d like to tell me?
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