Richard Philip Lee
Talking About Looking: Three Approaches to Interviewing Carers of People With Rheumatoid Arthritis About Information Seeking
Lee, Richard Philip; Thompson, Ben; Whybrow, Paul; Rapley, Tim
Authors
Ben Thompson
Paul Whybrow
Tim Rapley
Abstract
© 2016 The Author(s). Given the profusion of illness-related information, in this article, we consider how talking about information seeking - and in particular Internet use - is difficult, not because it is necessarily a highly sensitive topic (though it may be), but rather due to the unusual and unfamiliar situation of talking about information seeking. Drawing on interviews conducted as part of a study on the educational needs of carers of people with rheumatoid arthritis, we compare three types of interview for understanding online information seeking: interviews (recall), researcher-led observation (joining participant at the computer), and diaries. We discuss the strengths and weaknesses of each approach and discuss how changing interview questions and the form of interaction can help to produce different types of data, and potentially more meaningful insights. Of the three approaches, conducting interviews with participants while looking at a computer (talking while looking) offered the best opportunities to understand Internet-based information seeking.
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Aug 18, 2015 |
Online Publication Date | Aug 18, 2015 |
Publication Date | Jul 1, 2016 |
Deposit Date | May 14, 2018 |
Publicly Available Date | May 14, 2018 |
Journal | Qualitative Health Research |
Print ISSN | 1049-7323 |
Electronic ISSN | 1552-7557 |
Publisher | SAGE Publications |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 26 |
Issue | 9 |
Pages | 1229-1239 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732315599373 |
Keywords | interviews, health information seeking, musculoskeletal disorders, caregivers/caregiving, technology, qualitative, England |
Public URL | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/910093 |
Publisher URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1049732315599373 |
Contract Date | May 14, 2018 |
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