Living with unexplained chest pain
The instrument used was not pilot-tested for accuracy and reliability since There is no reliability when asking open-ended questions; you will get different answers from every person, giving only the person answering the reliability. Depending on the way the questions were asked, the answers could have been different from one patient to another, for example a question like “Can you tell me what it is like to have chest pain and can you tell me how chest pain influences your everyday life?” (Jerlock, Johansson, & Danielson, 2005). However, the unstructured interview sheets used for this study are reliable because they ...
