Interview Guide

LIVED EXPERIENCE OF BEREAVED STUDENTS ON PARENTAL DEATH SEMI-STRUCTURED INTERVIEW

GUIDE

Instruction: This a research project and for this project you will be asked to complete a short
questionnaire. This questionnaire aims to:

The information you provide will be used to enhance and improve: Your answers will not be released to
anyone and will remain anonymous. All responses you provide for this study will remain confidential.

Grand Tour Question

1. How does the participant describe their experience of losing parent?

Stand in Question:

1.1 How do the Participants view their experience losing one's parent?

Elucidating Questions:

1.1.1 Can you tell me about your experience on parental death?

1.2.1 What's a favorite memory about yyou loved one?
1.3.1 What is like to be experiencing losing one's parent?
1.1.4 What is the regret you have after llosing your parent?
1.1.5 What challenges/barrier do you experience losing one's parent?

Stand in Question:

1.2 How do they feel experiencing losing one's parent?

Elucidating Questions:

1.2.1. How do you losing feel/think losing one of your parent?

1.2.2. Can you describe to me what you felt when you find out that your parent has died?
1.2.3 How long have you been experienced grieving? Can you describe to me what you feel during
that time?
1.2.4. When you think about your father/mother, what do you remember most? What did you feel
1.2.5. What gives you a comfort feel better?
Stand in Question:
1.3 How do they cope with the loss of the parent?
Elucidating Questions:
1.3.1. How you cope up with your grief?
1.3.2 How did you handle the experience losing one's parent?
1.3.3 What grief-coping strategies (if any) do you provide to your self- losing one's parent?
1.3.4 What has helped you get to other through times in your grieving experience?
1.3.5 What about other difficult times in your life? How you deal with the grieving process?