Cognitive Interview Obstacles

1. Cognitive Interview Obstacles • Little or no training • No understanding of cognitive methods • No CAPI • Multiple languages • Multiple cultures • Multiple levels of development

2. Requirements • Structured interview guide • Very simple instructions • Few skip patterns • Quantitative data and analysis

3. Cognitive Interview Protocol Designed to illustrate: • Administration ease • Interpretations • Factors considered • Degree of consistency with physical abilities

4. Cognitive Interview Protocol • Demographic Section: Country, gender, age, SES • Question Testing Sections • Core Question • Interviewer Coding • Open-ended Follow-up Probe • Cognitive Follow-up Probe • Functioning Follow-up Probe • Health Questions • Subjective health • Chronic condition list

5. Interviewer Code: Did the respondent… • need you to repeat any part of the question? Yes/No • have any difficulty using the response options? Yes/No • ask for clarification or qualify their answer? Yes/No

6. Open-ended Follow-up Probe • Why did you answer that way?

7. Cognitive Follow-up Probes: • How often they had difficulty • The amount of effort they needed to put into the activity • How often they felt self-conscious about the difficulty • The degree of concern or worry they had regarding the difficulty • How often they wished they could do the do the activity better

8. Functioning Follow-up Probes • Presence of a condition • Use of an assistive device • Degree of difficulty doing related activities

9. Health Status • General health question • Why did you answer that way? • Health conditions

10. Interviewer Debriefing • Details about the interview and interview setting • Insight into the quality of the information

11. Analysis Plans • Patterns in the response process • Interpretation • Judgment • Patterns of response error • Across countries and demographic variables