Interviewers' observations

The clinical raters who make the diagnoses do not meet the parents or children. Whether they get the diagnoses right depends on the quality of the information they receive. You can obviously help them by providing detailed transcripts of respondents' accounts of the problems in their own words. Another important way you can help them is by adding any relevant observations of your own to the end of the transcript. Naturally enough, what's needed is objective information rather than value judgements ("He's a nice kid", "I didn't like the parents"). Examples of really helpful observations include:

There is an opportunity for you to record your observations at the end of the interview.

<< Previous


Last modified : 05/09/09