Description

This Master Prompt focuses on evaluating, strengthening and transparently reporting the methodological rigor of interview-based research. It guides researchers in examining credibility, dependability, confirmability, transferability, reflexivity, evidential adequacy and analytical transparency while ensuring that quality criteria are appropriate to the study’s epistemological position, methodological design and analytical strategy. Rather than treating rigor as a checklist of universally required techniques, the Master Prompt emphasizes methodological coherence, transparent decision-making, careful documentation of researcher influence, explicit treatment of uncertainty and traceability from participant evidence to final interpretation.