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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Intensive Crit Care Nurs. 2021 Jun 12;66:103075. doi: 10.1016/j.iccn.2021.103075

Table 2.

Semi-structured Qualitative Interview Guide.

Questions
Cycle 1

  1. We’d like to know about your experience using the tablet computer and VidaTalk™ application to communicate with your family member while you were visiting in the ICU. Please tell me about that experience.

  2. How often did your family member use the VidaTalk™ application to communicate with you or with others while you were visiting? What other methods of communication did you use?

  3. Tell me about how you felt when communicating with [patient’s name] after starting to use the VidaTalk™?
Cycle 2
  • 4.

    What messages were communicated using the VidaTalk™ application?

  • 5.

    Tell me about what conversation had the most impact on you? Which conversation was the most meaningful? Which conversation bothered you most?
Cycle 3
  • 6.

    What suggestions do you have for other family members of patients receiving mechanical ventilation who may use or assist in the use of the VidaTalk™ application to communicate?