In this chapter I will report the findings of the interviews that I carried out with nurses on their lived experience of treating patients with pseudocyesis. I will summarise the findings from each research participant individually and then in chapter six I will go on to compare and contrast those findings. I will use narrative inquiry (Clandinin & Connelly 2001) in reporting the findings of the interviews as I believe that this lends itself well to an interviewee reporting their lived experience. It also suits my personal academic background and writing style as I previously read for a BA (Hons) in Medieval and Renaissance History. Clandinin and Connelly also point to the fact in their chapter on Interviews that ‘there are many examples of interviews in narrative inquiry’ and cite an example of a qualitative interview extract from Enns-Connolly which demonstrates narrative inquiry. They also cite Mischler’s Research Interviewing: Context and Narrative (1986) as research that promotes the merits of carrying out narrative inquiry within qualitative interview settings.
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