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Probing the Prime Narrative: Illness, Interviewing, and Identity

Cynthia M. Mathieson

Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Cecily M. Barrie

Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

In this article, semistructured interviews with cancer patients are interpreted as a narrative process. Using a qualitative, inductive method, a coding scheme and lexicon were developed to analyze the form and content of interviews with persons with cancer. The authors introduce and describe the coding scheme by applying it to the audiotapes and transcripts from 13 interviews. This work indicates that there is a prime narrative supported by subnarratives. One can probe the narrative by studying the features of the lexicon: the interview gallery frame movement within the gallery, audio features, milestones, prompts and turn-taking, and the memo. The individual narrative is discussed in terms of a final summary report. This analytic approach enables the researcher to locate and describe the narrative.

Qualitative Health Research, Vol. 8, No. 5, 581-601 (1998)
DOI: 10.1177/104973239800800502
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