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into it, without rapport-building pre-interview chit-chat’ (p. 88), thus allowing the participant ‘to find their voice’ (Dillman, 1978, p. 44). Further the researcher sought a ‘connectedness’ having previously worked as a remote nurse and hence, built a mutual level of similar understanding by sharing informally stories, experiences and anecdotes. This approach cajoled and coaxed the nurses into feeling the researcher was a colleague of ‘liked experience and mindedness’ and hence, made participants more comfortable to disclose sensitive information with someone ‘who truly understood’ (Tausig & Freeman, 1988). 5.8.1 Disadvantages of interviews Interviews are generally a time consuming method of data collection. Organising arrangements to conduct the interviews, administering them and finally analysing their content all take time (Bowling, 2009). Polit and Beck (2006) also argue that using interviews as a data collection method is an expensive process and can potentially preclude the feeling of participant anonymity. While time was incurred in arranging and undertaking the interviews, the researcher did not find this particularly onerous as the research was a doctoral study and so had expected to invest this level of time in data collection. Further, participants were scattered across Australia which meant that teleconferencing as a method of interviewing, substantially reduced otherwise invested time, by eliminating substantial travel and waiting time(s). 5.9 Data analysis Relevant to research are the questions of what is analysis and how should it be undertaken? Two complementary definitions are helpful. The first is very general (Bernard,