Can you use the same questions for interview, questionnaire, and focus group in a qualitative descriptive study?
The short answer is "yes," but you are leaving information on the table if you do that. Verbal questions and focus groups provide a much better opportunity for follow up questions, based on responses. This is a powerful research option that should not be ignored!
Questionnaires are quite different because they rely on a set of pre-determined, close-ended response categories. In contrast, qualitative interviews and focus groups use open-ended questions to hear the participants' own perspective on the topic.
Hello Kayla
It would not be the most profitable. Focus groups and in-depth interviews are qualitative research techniques, so the questions that are asked are open, in a generally semi-structured scenario (possibility of including new questions based on the information that is being generated). The questionnaires, in general, are instruments of quantitative orientation (except if open questions are included) and characterized by being structured (it is not possible to include new questions during the application). In the questionnaires, it is intended that the largest number of questions be associated with a certain number of answers (closed questions) to facilitate their processing.
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