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      Situating and Constructing Diversity in Semi-Structured Interviews

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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.

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              Qualitative content analysis: a guide to paths not taken.

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              Counting codes makes qualitative content analysis a controversial approach to analyzing textual data. Several decades ago, mainstream content analysis rejected qualitative content analysis on the grounds that it was not sufficiently quantitative; today, it is often charged with not being sufficiently qualitative. This article argues that qualitative content analysis is distinctively qualitative in both its approach to coding and its interpretations of counts from codes. Rather than argue over whether to do qualitative content analysis, researchers must make informed decisions about when to use it in analyzing qualitative data.
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                Journal
                Glob Qual Nurs Res
                Glob Qual Nurs Res
                GQN
                spgqn
                Global qualitative nursing research
                SAGE Publications (Sage CA: Los Angeles, CA )
                2333-3936
                14 August 2015
                Jan-Dec 2015
                : 2
                : 2333393615597674
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
                [2 ]University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
                Author notes
                [*]Michele J. McIntosh, Trent Fleming School of Nursing, Trent University, 1600 West Bank Drive, Peterborough, Ontario K9J 7B8, Canada. Email: michelejmcintosh@ 123456trentu.ca
                Article
                10.1177_2333393615597674
                10.1177/2333393615597674
                5342650
                28462313
                59786b17-a5ea-49ad-8cd7-1edef3ee1434
                © The Author(s) 2015

                This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License ( http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page ( https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).

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                : 25 June 2015
                : 1 July 2015
                : 18 July 2015
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                January-December 2015

                qualitative research methods,interview,mixed-method design,semi-structured interviews

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