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Table 2 List of qualitative methods identified in the literature

From: Beyond interviews and focus groups: a framework for integrating innovative qualitative methods into randomised controlled trials of complex public health interventions

Art

Art workshops, collage, dance, decoupage, drama, drawing, drawing method of storytelling, graffiti, imprography, imitation games, improvisation, magazine collage, mural, music, painting, performative methodologies, role-play, scenario workshop, sculpture, sketching, street theatre.

Mapping

Argument maps, body-mapping, circle map, concept mapping, digital mind maps, digital traces, emotion map, process maps, egocentric sociograms, social network analysis, spider diagrams

Multimedia

Avatar representation, bio-photographic elicitation interviews, video recordings, computer mediated communication, conversation audio recordings, documentary film, head-mounted cameras, spatial montage, skype interviews, twitter data, video shadowing, videoconference focus groups, videovoice.

Narrative

Audio diaries, scrapbook diaries, biographic narrative, biographic workshop, creative non-fiction, creative writing, digital storytelling, dramatic writing, experimental writing, fiction writing, memory box, narrative poetry, poetic reflection, scroll-back method, stimulated recall.

Visual

Visual dialogues, flash card activity, interpretation panels, mood boards, photo elicitation, photographic portraits as autobiography, photography exhibition, photovoice, social vignettes.