title: Skype interviewing: the new generation of online synchronous interview in qualitative research.
abstract: The most commonly used method for data collection in qualitative research is interviewing. With technology changes over the last few decades, the online interview has overcome time and financial constraints, geographical dispersion, and physical mobility boundaries, which have adversely affected onsite interviews. Skype as a synchronous online service offers researchers the possibility of conducting individual interviews as well as small focus groups, comparable to onsite types. This commentary presents the characteristics of the Skype interview as an alternative or supplemental choice to investigators who want to change their conventional approach of interviewing.
authors.affiliation: Student Research Committee, Department of Midwifery School of Nursing and Midwifery, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.
authors.forename: Roksana
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Janghorban
authors.affiliation: Evidence-Based Care Research Center, Department of Midwifery School of Nursing and Midwifery, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran; LatifnejadR@mums.ac.ir.
authors.forename: Robab
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Latifnejad Roudsari
authors.affiliation: Health Sciences Research Center, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology School of Health, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.
authors.forename: Ali
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Taghipour
mesh_terms: D003625:Data Collection / Q000379:methods*; D017144:Focus Groups; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D036301:Qualitative Research; D035844:Researcher-Subject Relations; D061108:Social Media
keywords: Interview; Skype; qualitative research; researcher
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