Scrapbook Interviewing And Children With Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Interviewing children about their physical activity (PA) experiences can be a challenging research undertaking. A new visual research method in qualitative research, scrapbook interviewing, was created to explore the PA experiences of children. Six children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder shared their PA stories in semi-structured interviews through the use of a PA scrapbook. A comparison of a consecutive and concurrent scrapbook interviewing techniques was performed between two groups of three children. The concurrent technique produced substantially more data than the consecutive technique to address problems of limited data to analyse when performing child-PA interviews. Since children in the concurrent technique expressed themselves at greater lengths, their PA voices emerged in a deeper and richer fashion. Preliminary findings suggested both groups spoke about similar PA experiences but differences in positive outcomes and planning were revealed. Challenges of using this new and exciting hybrid method in qualitative research methods are discussed.