African Primary Care Research: Qualitative interviewing in primary care

Abstract

This article is part of a series on African Primary Care Research and focuses on the topic of qualitative interviewing in primary care. In particular it looks at issues of study design, sample size, sampling and interviewing in relation to individual and focus group interviews.There is a particular focus on helping postgraduate students at a Masters level to write their research proposals.

Keywords

• Primary care research, qualitative research, in-depth interviews, focus group interviews