Everything about Structured interview

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Structured interviewA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Structured vs Self-Guided Multidomain Lifestyle Interventions for Global Cognitive FunctionInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Günther FörgThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Systematic methodological review: developing a framework for a qualitative semi‐structured interview guideCited 3,849 times
5. Go sideways: InterviewA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Unstructured interviewA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Systematic methodological review: developing a framework for a qualitative semi‐structured interview guide

  Hanna Kallio, Anna‐Maija Pietilä, Martin Johnson · 2016 · Journal of Advanced Nursing · 3,849 citations

• The Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R (SCID)

  Robert L. Spitzer · 1992 · Archives of General Psychiatry · 3,199 citations

• The Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI). A short diagnostic structured interview: reliability and validity according to the CIDI

  Y Lecrubier, DV Sheehan, E Weiller · 1997 · European Psychiatry · 3,067 citations

• Structured Interviews for the Glasgow Outcome Scale and the Extended Glasgow Outcome Scale: Guidelines for Their Use

  J.T. LINDSAY WILSON, LAURA E.L. PETTIGREW, GRAHAM M. TEASDALE · 1998 · Journal of Neurotrauma · 1,895 citations

• A Structured Interview Guide for the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale

  Janet B. W. Williams · 1988 · Archives of General Psychiatry · 1,709 citations

• Prodromal Assessment With the Structured Interview for Prodromal Syndromes and the Scale of Prodromal Symptoms: Predictive Validity, Interrater Reliability, and Training to Reliability

  T. J. Miller, T. H. McGlashan, J. L. Rosen · 2003 · Schizophrenia Bulletin · 1,590 citations

• A new, semi-structured psychiatric interview for use in genetic linkage studies: a report on the reliability of the SSAGA.

  K K Bucholz, R Cadoret, C R Cloninger · 1994 · Journal of Studies on Alcohol · 1,426 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Structured vs Self-Guided Multidomain Lifestyle Interventions for Global Cognitive Function

  Laura D. Baker, Mark A. Espeland, Rachel A. Whitmer · 2025 · JAMA · 308 citations

• Performing an Inductive Thematic Analysis of Semi-Structured Interviews With a Large Language Model: An Exploration and Provocation on the Limits of the Approach

  Stefano De Paoli · 2023 · Social Science Computer Review · 248 citations

• ​Pre-testing Semi-structured Interview Questions Using Expert Review and Cognitive Interview Methods

  Department of Decision Science, Faculty of Business and Economics, Universiti Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Sunil Bhalla, Nurhidayah Bahar · 2023 · International Journal of Business and Management · 37 citations

• Semi-structured interview for self-esteem regulation research

  Michał Dolczewski · 2022 · Acta Psychologica · 26 citations

• Microservice-based projects in agile world: A structured interview

  Hüseyin Ünlü, Dhia Eddine Kennouche, Görkem Kılınç Soylu · 2024 · Information and Software Technology · 25 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Günther FörgGünther Förg, Herman Beil · 1984
• Zaha HadidZaha Hadid, Joseph Giovannini · 1989
• Juan Navarro BaldewegJuan Navarro Baldeweg · 1986
• Thinking with Theory in Qualitative ResearchAlecia Youngblood Jackson, Lisa A. Mazzei · 2011
• Entretiens avec Claude Lévi-StraussClaude Lévi-Strauss · 1961
• 📕Mario BottaMario Botta · 1988
• Structure, Agency and the Internal ConversationMargaret Scotford Archer · 2003
• Invisible languageMasao Noguchi · 1993

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