Week 7: Second Interviews

Hi everyone! This is the one and only Joleen and I am back with the seventh blog post for my senior research project! This week, I will be discussing my interviews for the second round. This blog will be shorter and more straightforward because everything is pretty much the same as last week and as the first round of interviews that I conducted four weeks ago.

The second interview is different from the first for a couple of reasons. First, we do not need to ask questions relating to participants’ age, income, etc because we already entered that information into the SPSS where it is being processed. We only need to ask questions with answers that we must input into the software. These questions ask about participants’ sleep quality and struggles relating to menopause. After I enter the data from the second interview, I will use data analysis to compare the numbers before and after the participants practice Qigong. This way, I will be able to conclude whether or not Qigong is actually effective in decreasing insomnia symptoms in menopausal women.

Second, my external advisor and I worked together to add another section to the interview. This section involved free-response questions. Examples include: “How easy was it for you to comprehend the video instructions” and “Did you have any difficulties throughout the entire process?” Questions like these will benefit me if I decide to continue my research project in the future. We also asked participants to rank how helpful Qigong was in decreasing insomnia and how likely participants would recommend my project to others. This week’s blog is short, but next week’s will be extra long! Prepare yourselves!