Reading, Understanding, and Applying Nursing Research 4th Edition by James Fain

Exercise 3

Role-playing in-depth interview techniques helps student researchers develop interviewing skills. Special attention is given to the potential of researcher bias in student questions and interactions with study participants and to listening to problems, such as inattention to detail.
After listening to the recording and reading the transcript, students identify:
a. Content areas that could have been more fully explored.
b. How the interviewer may actually lead the participant away from sharing valuable data.
c. How to better elicit data.