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. 2014 Feb 5;12:15. doi: 10.1186/1477-7525-12-15

Table 3.

Examples of eliciting skills

Eliciting skills Examples
Descriptive questions
● “Grand Tour” – placing the interview in context
   - What’s a typical day like for you?
● “Mini Tour” – focusing on smaller unit of experience
   - Can you tell me more about that?
Checking
● Are there different kinds of bad times?
● Are there different kinds of bad days?
● Is this how you would talk about bad days to your friends? Your parents? Your doctor?
Contrast questions
● Investigates types of experiences and how they vary by context
     - You said that you get a lot of backaches, what, if anything, makes the experience of one of your backaches different from other aches and pains?
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