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Table 3 Summary of data collection methods

From: Modular health services: a single case study approach to the applicability of modularity to residential mental healthcare

Type of data

Data collection methods

 Primary data

Interviews

 • Seven interviews

 • Semi-structured

 • Face-to-face

 • Recorded

 • Confidential

 • Interviewees from various functions within the centre for psychosis

Observations

 • Three and a half day of observations

 • Unstructured

 • Observer as participant

 Secondary data

Documentary analysis

 • Internal documents

 • External documents