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Qualitative Health Research, Vol. 16, No. 10, 1335-1349 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/1049732306294511

"It’s No Skin off My Nose": Why People Take Part in Qualitative Research

Elizabeth Peel

School of Life and Health Sciences, Aston University, United Kingdom

Odette Parry

North East Wales Institute of Higher Education (NEWI), United Kingdom

Margaret Douglas

Lothian NHS Board, United Kingdom

Julia Lawton

Research Unit in Health, Behaviour and Change (RUHBC), University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

In this article, the authors analyze participants’ accounts of why they took part in a repeat-interview study exploring newly diagnosed patients’ perceptions of diabetes service provision in Lothian, Scotland. The study involved three semistructured in-depth interviews with each patient (N = 40), which spanned a year. The authors provide a thematic discursive analysis of responses to the question, Can I ask you what made you decide to part in the study and why you’ve stayed involved over the past year? The main themes are (a) recruitment within health contexts ("the nurse said it would help"), (b) altruism ("if it can help somebody"), (c) qualitative research being seen as inherently innocuous ("nothing to lose"), and (d) therapeutic aspects of interviewing ("getting it off my chest"). The analysis contributes both to the qualitative literature about generic research participation and to a germinal literature exploring qualitative health research participation.

Key Words: diabetes • repeat interviews • qualitative research • research participation

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