All questions of the interview that was based on the vignette referred to the diarrhoeal illness of the person described in the vignette.
It is especially lacking in assessment of people's health literacy, thus evaluation of MHL based on the vignette interview approach may be incomplete.
To elicit these proxy estimates, members of the general population could read a vignette describing AD and they could answer the questions on the EQ-5D as if they had AD based on the vignette they just read.
Moreover, participants were asked to evaluate 13 traits of the patient (e.g., cooperative-uncooperative, adaptive-not-adaptive, wise-stupid, selfish-unselfish, manipulative-non-manipulative, pleasant-unpleasant, bad-good, reasonable-unreasonable) based on the vignette, on a similar 7-point differential semantic continuum.
They were based on the four vignettes that had stimulated most discussion during the focus groups, supplemented by a topic schedule that sought information on health, social, and geographical factors and explored emergent themes.
The number of 40 results form a calculation based on the total number of vignettes, the expected sample size and the number of vignettes that will be given to each participant [ 33].
Studies were summarized into three tables (Additional file 2: Table S1, S2, and S3) based on the disease described in the vignettes.
We developed the vignettes based on the ethical issues ranked most important by 21 key stakeholders at three Toronto rehabilitation and community care centres (Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, Bloorview Kids Rehab and Toronto Community Care Access Centre), and by the community stakeholder groups organized by the MOHLTC to help identify "key integration opportunities" for the LHINs.
17 A score out of 10 was calculated for each part of the vignette based on the best practice actions mentioned.
