Table 3 Examples of eliciting skills
Eliciting skills | Examples |
|---|---|
Descriptive questions | ● “Grand Tour” – placing the interview in context |
- What’s a typical day like for you? | |
● “Mini Tour” – focusing on smaller unit of experience | |
- Can you tell me more about that? | |
Checking | ● Are there different kinds of bad times? |
● Are there different kinds of bad days? | |
● Is this how you would talk about bad days to your friends? Your parents? Your doctor? | |
Contrast questions | ● Investigates types of experiences and how they vary by context |
- You said that you get a lot of backaches, what, if anything, makes the experience of one of your backaches different from other aches and pains? |