Question

Discuss the necessity for having a skilled clinician in administering an unstructured interview. Elaborate on the need for the clinician to remain sensitive, unbiased, and nonjudgmental. What would happen if the clinician showed the opposite behavior? How would the client respond?

Answer 1

Answer: The unstructured informal interview is normally conducted as a preliminary step in the research process to generate ideas/hypotheses about the subject being investigated so that these might be tested later in the survey proper. Such interviews are entirely informal and are not controlled by a specific set of detailed questions. Rather the interviewer is guided by a pre-defined list of issues. These interviews amount to an informal conversation about the subject.

Healthcare profession is one of the profession that should be free from every biases and judgment. The clinician should not be racist or biased, because the main purpose of this health care profession is to take care of the patient as well as cure the patient. If the physician himself only is a biased or racist, how will the patient will feel relaxed with the healthcare professionals?. For this reason, the clinician should not be biased, so that patient can trust the health care professional easily.