Semi-structured_interviews/Activity_sheet_1/handout
Introduction: purpose of research, tape recorder/confidentiality, conduct of interview.
BIOGRAPHY
1. Tell me about your family. What was it like when you were a child?
Prompt: Family/Household /Earning capacity
Health of family members
Housing and education of family members.
2. How would you describe the general health of the family?
Probe: What about dental health? Do the members of your family have good teeth?
DENTAL HISTORY
3. How many times would you go or be taken to a dentist?
Prompt: Why? Cost of visit/ distance from home//family interest?
4. Did you have a regular dentist? What was he/she like?
Probe: your feelings about this dentist? (friend, enemy, nothing)
5. Can you tell me briefly about any dental problems you had as a child and what was done about them?
6. In what ways might your dental problems have affected you as an adult?
FAMILY PRACTICES
7. What advice did your parents give you about your dental hygiene?
Probe: Dental knowledge - how often and when to brush your teeth?
Anything else to keep your teeth healthy (e.g. chewing?)
How often to visit a dentist?
Cultural/ Religious practices
8. To what extent does concern about your teeth affect what you eat, when you eat?
Prompt: What to eat to protect or strengthen your teeth?
How would you describe your diet in relation to your dental health?
9. How often do you wash your teeth?
Probe: What do you use? Water/bottled drink/no drink
Brush, finger, datun
Before and/or after meals, before ceremonies, going out
EXPERIENCE OF DENTAL VISITS
10. What is your image of dentists?
Probe: personality, expertise, relationship with them
What you like/dislike in dentists?
11. What is it like to have dental treatment?
Probe: examples.
12. Have you any particular anxieties? What are they?
Probe: how do you cope with pain?
13. Have you ever had dental surgery/operation?
Probe: What was that like?
DENTAL HEALTH AND BEAUTY
14. In your view, what are beautiful teeth?
15. How important is it for a woman to have beautiful teeth/ for a man?
16. Some people can't smile because of worries about their teeth. What do you think of that?
17. Nasty breath, some people say, can make people unpopular. Any views?
18. What three words best describe your own teeth?
DENTAL COSTS AND VISITS
19. People often don't go to the dentist as often as they should. In your view, what are the three most important reasons for this?
Probe: Other reasons? (cost, laziness, distance, fear)
20. How do you rate the cost of going to the dentist? 1 to 5 high
Probe: relative cost
DENTAL POLICY
21. If the government wants to improve the country's dental health, what should it do?
22. Who should pay for going to the dentist?
23. Is there anything else the government should think about in relation to dentists?
24. Is there anything else you would like to add?
Thank you for your time and help.
Singal, N., and Jeffery, R. (2008). Qualitative Research Skills Workshop: A Facilitator's Reference Manual, http://oer.educ.cam.ac.uk/wiki/RECOUP, Cambridge: RECOUP (Research Consortium on Educational Outcomes and Poverty, http://recoup.educ.cam.ac.uk/). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. (original page)
