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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Volume 25, Issue 4, Pages 477-482Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2021.1913921
Keywords
Qualitative research; COVID 19; older people; recruitment; remote interviewing
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- Fondazione Cariplo [2017-0946]
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Conducting qualitative research on older people during a pandemic poses challenges, but this study demonstrates the feasibility of remotely recruiting and interviewing older individuals, highlighting the importance of community engagement and tailored video interviews.
There is an urgent need to understand the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemics on older people's lives. However, conducting qualitative research is challenging, because of the shortage of guidelines and methodological research on how to recruit and interview participants during biological disasters, such as pandemics. This paper documents the procedures we adopted to recruit and interview 40 older people living in a rural area of Northern Italy that was subject to the first full lockdown in Europe. Despite the challenges arising when qualitatively researching the old age population in pandemic times, our study has shown that it is feasible to recruit and interview older people remotely. Specifically, community engagement and tailoring video-interviews according to older people's needs and ICT skills are the key aspects to consider when designing these types of studies.
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