Anonymising interview data: challenges and compromise in practice
Anonymising interview data: challenges and compromise in practice
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DOI：
10.1177/1468794114550439
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发表时间：
2015-10-01
影响因子：
3.6
通讯作者：
Kitzinger, Celia
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作者：
Saunders, Benjamin;Kitzinger, Jenny;Kitzinger, Celia
将定性研究数据匿名化可能具有挑战性，特别是在灾难性脑损伤和临终决策等高度敏感的背景下。本文使用对处于植物人和最低限度意识状态的人的家庭成员的深入采访的例子，讨论了我们在试图最大限度地提高参与者匿名性同时保持我们数据的完整性时所面临的问题。我们讨论了我们如何制定精心设计的、对上下文敏感的策略，以尽可能在保护参与者的同时尽量保持面试材料的丰富性。对匿名化的实践和伦理细节的讨论旨在增加关于这个主题的大部分理论文献，并对其他面临类似困境的研究人员具有说明性的作用。
Anonymising qualitative research data can be challenging, especially in highly sensitive contexts such as catastrophic brain injury and end-of-life decision-making. Using examples from in-depth interviews with family members of people in vegetative and minimally conscious states, this article discusses the issues we faced in trying to maximise participant anonymity alongside maintaining the integrity of our data. We discuss how we developed elaborate, context-sensitive strategies to try to preserve the richness of the interview material wherever possible while also protecting participants. This discussion of the practical and ethical details of anonymising is designed to add to the largely theoretical literature on this topic and to be of illustrative use to other researchers confronting similar dilemmas.