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In the second, inpatient, stage, we had to adapt the interview outline to the hospital environment.
The test interviews allowed the research team to adapt the interview guides.
A field diary, conceptual maps and daily reflections all assisted to identify emerging themes, and adapt the interview guides.
Specifically, participants were telephoned to increase the response rate and, as required, to adapt the interview procedure to the preferences of the participants, conducting the questionnaires over the phone for those with visual impairments, for example.
The document review analysed published and unpublished information from a variety of sources (Table 1) to contextually ground the study and adapt the interview guide to the policy environment of the APE programme and iCCM policy in Mozambique.
After that, participants were telephoned to increase the response rate and, as required, to adapt the interview procedure to the preferences of the participants, conducting the questionnaires over the telephone for those with visual impairments, for example.
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To adapt the interviews for each context, each country team conducted between one and three pilot interviews to modify the questions, interview process, and language.
We adapted the interview guide used in a similar study elsewhere [ 20].
Four experienced qualitative researchers led interviews and adapted the interview guide (Additional file 2) during the process as needed to enable a fluent interview (semi-structured interview) [ 16].
This may indicate that the therapists have been successful in adapting the interview to each patient, and confrontation has thus been avoided.
The continual process of adapting the interview schedule will be critical, as the aim is not validation of pre-existing hypotheses, but identification of emergent issues in order to generate new understandings.
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