The Pave Project Report - Queen's University Belfast

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APPENDIX 5: SEMI-STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS
Question/Topics List:
1. Experience in the voluntary co-funded group:
• How did you hear about this group? For how long have you been a
member?
• What services have you been availing of during this time?
a. What do they consist of? How do they work? (brief description
of each one)
b. How regularly have you been using them?
c. Why are you using these specific services?
• Do you think these activities or services have helped/are helping you in
any way? In what ways?
• Is there anything that you would single out as being of particular
importance or relevance in helping you to move on?
• Would you like to use a particular service or do a certain activity that is
not available at the moment, or would you like a certain
service/activity to be offered in a different way?
• What does this group mean in your life? Why are you availing of these
services here and not anywhere else? Have the reasons why you joined
the group in the first place changed over the years? And have you
changed over the years? If so, how?
2. How have you been affected by the Troubles? (Explain briefly)
3. Coping
• How have you coped with these traumatic experiences over the years (in
the short and in the long term)? How did this affect you immediately after
and as the years passed by? (nightmares, being jumpy, not able to
concentrate, etc.)
• Do you still suffer from any of these effects?