Day 25

I continued with the analysis today, and it is almost done! I am still trying to ensure that I have sufficient quotes to support the findings however, as I realise that a lot of what the participants "said" were not really said by them. Instead, they mentioned something, my supervisor helped to reframe it and clarified if this is what they meant to say, and then they agreed with the clarification. While this does give evidence to support our findings, it means that I cannot safely give what that particular participant said or affirmed as it was not spoken by them personally.

However when you think about it, it is true that it is important for the words to come from the client. As the interviewer, very often it is easy for us to be seen as an "authority figure", or for participants to think that because they were fortunate enough to get chosen, for them to want to give answers that will be pleasing to the interviewer, or simply because they want to help our cause. Interviewer bias thus could become a serious problem if we were to take such quotes to represent "what the client said", even if it was truly mere clarification and not coercion at all. Thus we have to be careful to ensure that, for the sake of the credibility of the study and findings generated, that we stick as closely as possible to what the participants themselves said.

To ensure that I do not lag too far behind in my literature review as well, I continued reading some articles and getting the essential parts out of them to collate into my basic summary of journal articles. This is to ensure that when I do begin writing the literature review in its entirety, it will be easier for me to know what important points to take note of, which articles support these points, and also make it much simpler for referencing. The only issue is that as I look at the summary of the articles, I begin to worry that I have insufficient articles for the literature review.

This means that I might have to resort to taking the systematic reviews which I found and use the articles they revewed to hel p"beef up" the review report. This tends to be a "trick" that my friends and I use in university - when we find an article that is useful and good for our asisgnment or research (particularly when we are having trouble finding articles related to our topic or subject), we take note of the references used in the article and search for those articles as well. I am not sure how good or valid or reliable a research method that is )as it could frnakly lead to some bias - since those areticles were chosen to support the initial article and so might not give the full objective picture) but it is a way to get around not having sufficient material for research.