APPENDIXIES Sample Clauses

APPENDIXIES. Appendix A: Guidelines for conducting interviews The following guidelines were developed to give the best possible conditions for interviews and ensure consistency. • All potential respondents should be contacted prior interviews. • All terms and rules should be introduced during the contact taking process. • All key questions should be sent beforehand. • All privacy concerns should be regulated with the legal agreement. • All prior information about the respondents and their current situation should be clear to all interviewers beforehand. • The questions will be created prior to the interview. • Open ended questions will be allowed. But when open ended questions are used it is a good idea to have a list of topics that should be covered in the question to ensure that the needed information is obtained. • Questions will be grouped by respondent’s type. • The interviewer will ask each respondent’s group the same set of key* questions. • Ordering and phrasing of the key* questions will be kept consistent from interview to interview. • Interviewers use Skype even if the respondents use telephone because of the agreed recording functionality and constant quality. • All conversations will be recorded with the MP3 Skype Recorder tool. If the respondent rejects the recording agreement then the recording should not take a place. • Recordings will not be shared with third parties. • All recordings will be deleted latest by the end of 2014. • Interviewers are aware of possible technical issues with the sound quality, microphone malfunctions, and a lag in the Internet connection speed and have a backup plan prepared in advance. • Talking over participant • Interrupting participant (not allowing participant time to finish talking before asking the next question) • Finishing sentences for participant (putting words in their mouths) • Asking more than one question at a time (very often, you will only get a response to the last one the participant heard) • Asking narrow questions (framing the question too narrowly) • Asking leading questions • Filling up silences (not giving the participant time to think or expand) which is very common amongst less experienced (and also some very experienced) qualitative interviewers • Not following the topic guide (not to be confused with not allowing emergent topics) or being consistent across and between interviews in relation to key topics from the topic guide which should have been drawn from the research question itself • Not allow...