title: African Primary Care Research: qualitative interviewing in primary care.
abstract: This article is part of a series on African Primary Care Research and focuses on the topic of qualitative interviewing in primary care. In particular it looks at issues of study design, sample size, sampling and interviewing in relation to individual and focus group interviews.There is a particular focus on helping postgraduate students at a Masters level to write their research proposals.
authors.affiliation: Primary Health Care Directorate, University of Cape Town. steve.reid@uct.ac.za.
authors.forename: Steve
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Reid
authors.forename: Bob
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Mash
mesh_terms: D000349:Africa; D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D011320:Primary Health Care; D036301:Qualitative Research; D018401:Sample Size; D012494:Sampling Studies