Designing interview guides on stress and coping related to parenting pre‐teen children: an example from a hermeneutic phenomenological study

Abstract

Abstract Aims To develop a semi‐structured interview guide on stress and coping related to parenting pre‐teen children for a hermeneutic phenomenological research study. Design Hermeneutic phenomenological research approach which describes the development of an interview guide with semi‐structured questions. Methods Ovid MEDLINE, CIHAHL, ERIC, SCOPUS, Web of Science, JSTOR, Education Source, PsyINFO and ProQuest were searched to identify possible interview guides with questions related to stress and coping. The literature was searched in 2019 and included manuscripts from 1970–2019. An initial interview guide was constructed. Mock interviews were used to confirm the rigour of the guide. Results The final outcome was a semi‐structured interview guide on stress and coping related to parenting pre‐teen children. Conclusion The development of this semi‐structured interview guide is relevant to hermeneutic phenomenological researchers who are interested in discovering how personal background meanings and interpersonal concerns shape parents’ day‐to‐day stress appraisals and coping with parenting pre‐teen children.

Keywords

• child behaviour
• hermeneutics
• instrument development
• nurse–patient interactions
• parenting
• phenomenology