Accepted for/Published in: Journal of Medical Internet Research
Date Submitted: Oct 20, 2020
Date Accepted: Nov 30, 2020
Date Submitted to PubMed: Feb 12, 2021
Warning: This is an author submission that is not peer-reviewed or edited. Preprints - unless they show as "accepted" - should not be relied on to guide clinical practice or health-related behavior and should not be reported in news media as established information.
Guidelines for Conducting Virtual Cognitive Interviews During a Pandemic
ABSTRACT
The COVID pandemic has challenged researchers doing face-to-face research. We describe guidelines we developed to conduct cognitive interviews virtually that accommodate populations with limited internet accessibility. The guidelines describe essential communication and safety equipment and outline a procedure for collecting responses while protecting the safety of the participant and researcher. We also provide suggestions to facilitate the process including training participants to use the technology, encouraging them to respond aloud (a potential challenge given that the researcher was not physically present with them), and having the equipment ready to deploy (and testing it) in advance of the research sessions. Finally, the guidelines emphasize the need to adapt the interview to the circumstances and anticipate possible problems that might arise.
Citation
Request queued. Please wait while the file is being generated. It may take some time.
Copyright
© The authors. All rights reserved. This is a privileged document currently under peer-review/community review (or an accepted/rejected manuscript). Authors have provided JMIR Publications with an exclusive license to publish this preprint on it's website for review and ahead-of-print citation purposes only. While the final peer-reviewed paper may be licensed under a cc-by license on publication, at this stage authors and publisher expressively prohibit redistribution of this draft paper other than for review purposes.