Senior medical students were trained to interview the patients at the various data collecting sites.
Enumerators were trained to interview CHWs and other staff managing supplies of medicines, conduct product inventories, and rate storage conditions.
Bilingual interviewers (Dutch and Turkish, Dutch and Arabic or Dutch and Amazigh (Berber)) were trained to interview parents who were not sufficiently fluent in Dutch to participate.
Three healthcare professionals were trained to interview patients so that the same questions were asked in the same way, and unusual circumstances were handled similarly.
The survey team was trained to interview the household head present at the address, but in the absence of the household head, one adult member was randomly selected.
The school nurses and teachers were trained to interview students, collect absenteeism data, interview parents, and complete data collection forms, and the nurses were trained to collect and process nasal swabs to test for influenza.
If a neonate died at any time during the first month after birth (including stillbirths), the data collectors were trained to interview the mother or guardian of the infant, using the World Health Organization's verbal autopsy algorithm 16 to help define the most likely cause of death.
Specifically, he learned that the process of better understanding whether a child's development is on track typically means hours of behavioral examinations by certified practitioners who've been trained to perform interview-based analyses with parents or with children directly.
The RAs have also been trained to conduct interviews, to take field notes and to record factors that may influence the adoption of the model into practice.
Psychiatric diagnoses were based upon a formal structured diagnostic interview (SCID-P) performed by MR or a research assistant that had been trained to criteria on SCID interview procedures with review of SCID findings with MR. Comparison control subjects were community volunteers with no history of mental illness or neurological disease.
