February 8

Interview 2

  1. Questions for Interviewee: Write the three or four of the questions that elicited the best responses. How did these change based on previous experience?
    1. What were you taught about mental health? Was it talked about?
    2. Why do you think people are afraid to go to mental health appointments? Appointments in general?
    3. How do you feel about the current way that appointments are set-up and what might help to lessen the fear?What are some ideas that might fix this issue? Solutions? Counter-measures?
    4. What is your primary issue with the way doctors interact with a patient?
  2. Interviewee Response Summary
    1. March 6th at 7pm on Zoom
    2. Summarized bullet points of the interviewee responses including:
      • His answers were quick and short.
      • He wasn’t taught about mental health, just became self aware of it through life.
      • He’s not afraid to go to visits and prefers in-person.
      • He doesn’t have a specific worse/best health visit, all have been neutral for him. Could go either way.
      • People are afraid to go to visits because they don’t want to be labeled with something wrong. 
      • Mentioned that patients don’t get the information they always need. Stating that doctors don’t think the patients knows what the patient is talking about, not enough information is given to the patient and they just don’t listen to the patient.
      • He recommended more online services to possibly help.