Qualitative analysis of hearing program interviews

The SOUND-BITES pilot trains Meals on Wheels volunteers and audiology students to deliver in-home otoscopy and an 8–10 minute Sound Scouts hearing screen, then offers optional recorded interviews with clients and volunteers to probe acceptability and feasibility. Interviews are scheduled about 4 weeks after the visit and include structured and open-ended prompts tied to the Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF).

• Audio: phone or Zoom / telephone; intelligent verbatim transcription in Word; manual checking per protocol.
• Qual coding plan in protocol: deductive content analysis mapped to TDF, dual coders with consensus and third-party adjudication.
• Analysis outputs: themes for acceptability, barriers/facilitators, help-seeking decisions; triangulation with survey and clinical outputs.

Follow this checklist to run qualitative analysis of hearing program interviews at scale.

• 1) Import audio files and metadata (site, volunteer ID, client age, Sound Scouts hearing number) into Evidano.
• 2) Run automated transcription with a custom dictionary (Arclight, Sound Scouts, hearing-number ranges) and enable PII redaction. Review and correct transcripts.
• 3) Import the TDF codebook used in the protocol and run AI-assisted pre-coding to surface candidate segments per domain.
• 4) Dual-code a subset (n≈10–20%) to calibrate, lock codes, apply AI labeling across corpus, reviewers verify and finalize.
• 5) Run cross-segment analyses (by site, by volunteer experience, by referral outcome) and co-occurrence networks to detect linked barriers/facilitators.
• 6) Triangulate with quantitative survey and audiometric outputs (HHIE‑S, hearing-number, referrals) to prioritise action items.
• 7) Export concise executive brief: top 5 themes, representative quotes with timestamps, visuals (co-occurrence map, theme frequency table), and reproducible analysis files for publication.

The next steps are to map audio, survey, and clinical outputs into a single, auditable corpus and apply the 7-step workflow above to accelerate synthesis and publication. Try a pilot: ingest 10 interviews, enable custom-dictionary transcription, import the TDF codebook, and run an AI-assisted code pass to see savings firsthand.

Ready to try it with your SOUND-BITES data? Try Evidano for free to see how Evidano handles transcription, TDF-aligned coding, cross-segment analysis and secure reporting for your study.