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Interviews
Structured Interviews
- Easily compare multiple cases
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- Prepare and avoid missed opportunities
Strength:
- can be easily replicated as the questions willl be the same
- Easier to analyse than other interview types
Weaknesses:
- Participants may not be able to explain the complexity of their thoughts or rationale behind behaviour with limited answers
- Interviewer's expectations may influence the answers, interviewer bias
- Participants may be reluctant to share personal information when face to face
- Set amount of questions can be used to find out about disorders, eg 'How much weight have you lost? When were you diagnosed?
Unstructured
- Dive into deeper discussions
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- Improvise relevant interview questions
- Patient is free to talk about whatever they want
- Interviewer asks open-ended questions and aims for the interview to flow like a conversation
- Follow questions can be used
Strength:
- More detailed information can be obtained from each respondent because questions can be shaped for each situation and individual
- Can access information predetermined questions may not have been able to reveal
Weakness:
- More affected by interviewer bias because interviewer is developing questions on the spot and may ask leading questions
- Requires well trained interviewers which may be difficult to obtain, may make it more expensive
Semi-structured
- Set amounts of questions can be used to ask about disorders
- Follow up questions can be used to focus on specific information the participant has given, eg expanding on a specific hallucination they mentioned
Questions:
Open questions
Strengths:
- Unlimited range of answers
- Reveals how the respondents think about the question
- Responses can be used to expand on and clarify closed questions
- May br hard to find themes for content analysis
Weaknesses:
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- Answers may differ in levels of detail and can therefore e difficult to compare
- May be open to subjective interpretation
Closed questions
Strengths
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- Improves consistency of responses
- Easy to compare to other respondents or other questionnaires
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Weaknesses
- May not have the exact answer the respondent wants
- Can put ideas into the respondents minds, asking a question they had not thought about may be hard for them to decide on a short answer
Respondents may select answers most similar tot the true response, even though it may not be accurate
- Options may confuse the respondent
- Respondents with no opinion may feel a pressure to answer anyway
Vallentine
Aim:
- To investigate the usefulness of psychoeducation in a high security setting, and get information abut how the group could be improved in the future
Sample
- 42 Male patients from Broadmoor Hospital
- All suffered from schizophrenia or other related disorders
- Used semi-structures interviews to gather information from a patient about their life snd to improve psychoeducation treatment
- A content analysis was then carried out
- Themes included:
- What did participants value?
- What was helpful boutt he group?
- What was unhelpful/difficult about the group?
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Findings:
- Patients values knowing and understanding their illness
Found increased confidence in dealing with their illness, made them more positive about the future
Strength:
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- Recorded so there's can play back the recordings and interperate the results
- Learn to increased reliability and inter-rater reliability
- Appicable, can help psychoeducation improve
- Semi-structured interview allows detailed information to be gained, can explain opinions
Weaknesses:
- Questions were not standardised for everyone
- Lacks reliability as they received different questions
- Content analysis is not reliable as it is not replicable as themes are likely to vary