Problematic Interviewee Behaviors in Qualitative Research

Collins, Melinda; Shattell, Mona; Thomas, Sandra P.

doi:10.1177/0193945904268068

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“…A compilation of descriptions may give a deeper understanding of typical difficulties and how these tend to be handled. It is possible that participants' statements might be incomplete or influenced by social desirability [31]; however, the similarities between descriptions made by the IMGs and the Norwegian born health personnel, respectively, underpin that silence as a coping strategy is commonplace in Norwegian healthcare. indicated by the present study.…”

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How do international medical graduates and colleagues perceive and deal with difficulties in everyday collaboration? A qualitative study

Skjeggestad

Norvoll

Sandal

et al. 2017

Scand J Public Health

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Aim: Many medical doctors work outside their countries of origin. Consequently, language barriers and cultural differences may result in miscommunication and tension in the workplace, leading to poor performance and quality of treatment, affecting patient safety. However, there is little information about how foreign doctors and their colleagues perceive their collaboration and handle situations that can affect the quality of health services.Methods: Individual, semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with two groups of informants 16 doctors who had recently started working in Norway, and 12 unrelated Norwegianborn healthcare providers who had extensive experience working with doctors from foreign countries. Interviews were analysed according to the systematic text condensation method.Results: The foreign doctors described themselves as newcomers and found it difficult to speak with colleagues about their shortcomings, as they wanted to be viewed as competent. The Norwegian colleagues reported that many new foreign doctors had demanding work schedules; therefore, they were reluctant to give them negative feedback. They also feared that foreign doctors would react negatively to criticism. All participants, both the new foreign doctors and colleagues, reported that they took responsibility for the prevention of misunderstandings and errors; nevertheless, they struggled to discuss such issues with each other. Conclusions:Silence was the coping strategy adopted by foreign doctors and native healthcare professionals when facing difficulties in their working relationships. In such situations, many foreign doctors are socialised into a new workplace in which uncertainty and shortcomings are not openly discussed. Effective leadership and procedures to facilitate communication may alleviate this area of concern.

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Section: Methodological Considerationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

How do international medical graduates and colleagues perceive and deal with difficulties in everyday collaboration? A qualitative study

Skjeggestad

Norvoll

Sandal

et al. 2017

Scand J Public Health

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“…Studies have shown that interviewees can quickly establish what 'sits well' with the interviewer (i.e. in this case a young professional women) and perform appropriately within the interview (see Collins, Shatell, & Thomas, 2005;Williams & Heikes, 1993). Much like the performance of heterosexual (and potentially hegemonic) masculinities in Study 2 (as mentioned above regarding potency and prostate cancer), the performance of what could be described as more 'feminised' discourses of fathering may emerge in an interview context with a female researcher.…”

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The role of gender, environment and Individual biography in shaping qualitative interview data

Broom¹,

Hand²,

Tovey³

2009

International Journal of Social Research Methodology

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Reflexivity is a key aspect of qualitative research. Considerable attention has been given to the ways in which gender mediates the production and analysis of qualitative data; however, much of this has been focused on qualitative interviews with women and the influence of the interviewer's gender in this specific context. Very little work has been done on comparing different interviewer-interviewee contexts such as male-to-female, male-to-male or female-to-male interviewing. Moreover, the interplay of gender with environmental, psycho-social and other biographical factors within the interview has received little attention. Drawing on four different studies on cancer care, work and family, and parenting, this article examines how each of these factors potentially mediate the collection of qualitative data in a range of interviewer-interviewee contexts. Moreover, it explores gender as both resource and delimiting factor, examining the use of impression management as a researcher tool to mediate potentially problematic interpersonal dynamics. It is concluded that greater attention should be paid to the complex intersectionality of gender, environmental, biographical and psychosocial factors in qualitative data analysis and write-up.

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“…Interpretation is based on the interviewer's perceptions, which are affected by what the researcher is able to hear within the text. Participants' accounts might be mitigated by social desirability response bias because of the need for approval and the demands of a particular situation (Collins, Shattell, & Thomas, 2005). …”

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Ethical Components of Researcher—Researched Relationships in Qualitative Interviewing

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Qualitative interviews are widely and often uncritically adopted for health care research, with little justification of therapeutic value. Although they might provide valuable insights into the perspectives of participants, they represent only a version of reality, rather than "truth" per se. Qualitative research is vulnerable to bias through the attitudes and qualities of the researcher, social desirability factors, and conditions of worth. Exploitation, through role confusion, therapeutic misconception, and misrepresentation are particular risks for health care-related research. Ethical codes, biomedical principles and care philosophies provide little contextual guidance on the moral dilemmas encountered in the practice of research. If nurse researchers are to navigate the moral complexities of research relationships, then sensitivity to risk to participants must be of continual concern, from conception of the study to the reporting of outcomes. Examination of the self through critical reflection and supervision are therefore necessary components of ethical research.

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Problematic Interviewee Behaviors in Qualitative Research

Cited by 94 publications

References 5 publications

How do international medical graduates and colleagues perceive and deal with difficulties in everyday collaboration? A qualitative study

How do international medical graduates and colleagues perceive and deal with difficulties in everyday collaboration? A qualitative study

The role of gender, environment and Individual biography in shaping qualitative interview data

Ethical Components of Researcher—Researched Relationships in Qualitative Interviewing

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