Not just data collection
The qualitative interview is a method to obtain knowledge about the persons own lived experience and the possibility to share the person’s own life experiences.
A qualitative interview study with planed interviews between 20 to 30 minutes related to the persons health. The interviews lasted for 40 to 70 minuets.
At the beginning of each interview, most of the informants were affected by symptoms, which faded out during the interview. An interview is aiming for data collection but the conversation can be treating the affected person so the qualitative interview is more than just data collection-becoming an intervention