Situating and Constructing Diversity in Semi-Structured Interviews
By Michele J. McIntosh, J. Morse. Global Qualitative Nursing Research, 2015
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Although semi-structured interviews (SSIs) are used extensively in research, scant attention is given to their diversity, underlying assumptions, construction, and broad applications to qualitative and mixed-method research. In this three-part article, we discuss the following: (a) how the SSI is situated historically including its evolution and diversification, (b) the principles of constructing SSIs, and (c) how SSIs are utilized as a stand-alone research method, and as strategy within a mixed-method design.
Subfields: Education, General Health Professions
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- How Many Interviews Are Enough to Identify Metathemes in Multisited and Cross-cultural Research? Another Perspective on Guest, Bunce, and Johnson’s (2006) Landmark Study (2017, background): “Future research exploring sample size estimations for qualitative data outside the realms of maximum variation purposive sampling and interview-elicited textual data (e.g., observations, documents, etc.) is deeply important and can make valuable contributions to the field (McIntosh and Morse 2015).”