Evaluating Qualitative Research Methods

Introduction
In public health, it is important to know how to evaluate the appropriate research methods that best addresses an issue and establish rapport with target communities or populations. To gain knowledge of this, a vignette on a community health clinic and the barriers keeping minorities from seeking healthcare services will be assess. This discussion will allow public health scholars to evaluate an appropriate qualitative research method to address questions raised in the given vignette and determine how they would establish rapport with a target community or population in order to effectively apply the appropriated research method.
Qualitative Research Method
In consideration of the situation described in Vignette 1: Community Health Clinic, the qualitative research method of the key informant technique would be the most

“The key informant “technique, often referred to as the in-depth interview, is characteristic of interpretative qualitative research and ethnographic field research more broadly” (Faifua, 2014). In turn, key informant interviews are defined as qualitative in-depth interviews with people who are knowledgeable about what is taking place in the community, with the purpose of gathering information from a wide-ranging group of people (i.e., professionals, community leaders, and residents) who have firsthand knowledge concerning the community (UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, n.d.). Provided particulars of the vignette noted that community-based organization leaders had firsthand knowledge concerning their respective ethnic communities with strong connections to spiritual leaders of