Additional interviewer training was conducted to ensure that the interviewers were particularly focused on classifying the respondents correctly as a soft or hard refusal following the initial contact.
An additional 24 interviewers and 12 supervisors were hired for a period of 2 months to administer the HMS.
If additional interviewers were used, each centre was responsible for their training and supervision.
Moreover, six additional interviewers were hired to enlarge the team because of the increased workload (morbidity module integrated with the HDSS data collection).
Recruitment for the study was done by two of the authors and two additional interviewers (see acknowledgements), who contacted participants by phone to ask if they were willing to participate.
The program also received three Cable Ace Award nominations as best cable show and an additional one for best interviewer.
Housekeeping: When There Are Multiple Versions of a Poll On an unrelated note, we're starting to see more cases in which multiple versions of the same poll are published — for instance, the figures among both likely voters and registered voters, or as listed with and without "leaners" (voters who initially say they're undecided but pick a candidate after an additional prompt from the interviewer).
We excluded an additional set of new interviewers (7/25) from this analysis who had not completed at least five assessments in each catchment area.
All interviewers received an additional six hours of training focused on interviewing young adults on sensitive topics and collection of biological samples.
After reviewing the consent form, the respondent signed the form along with the interviewer and an additional witness.
For the first 100 reports of any symptom during the second round of interviews, one of the physician interviewers made an additional home visit for the purpose of directly observing the symptom (e.g., if fever was reported, the temperature was taken, if vomiting or diarrhea was reported, the output was examined; if sore throat was reported, the throat was examined).
