Rather, the information gained from their use was mutually constructed in a process of negotiation between data collectors and respondents.
Individual-level data on women and their babies was abstracted by trained data collectors from the medical record; there was no contact between data collectors and patients.
It is unavoidable that the participants may not provide honest responses to the sensitive questions covered in the questionnaire, though this may have been ameliorated by using self-administered questionnaires and the established good relations between data collectors and MSWs.
Second, it is unavoidable that the participants may not provide honest responses to the sensitive questions covered in the questionnaire, though this may have been ameliorated by using self-administered questionnaires and the established good relations between data collectors and MSWs.
Four steps were followed during the data analysis: 1) immediate debriefing between data collectors and study Principal Investigator (AM) after each focus group, 2) listening to the tape and transcribing the content of the tape, 3) checking the content of the tape with the moderator and noting any non-verbal behavior, and 4) back translation of a sample prior data analysis, as noted above [ 23].
In [18], the authors proposed mobile data collection based on clustering and long-range wireless link (i.e. WiMax) between the mobile data collector and the gateway.
To improve quality and trustworthiness of the data, a range of participants were interviewed and regular meetings were held between data collectors to discuss the data collection process and identify inconsistencies between findings of various participant groups.
37 We will implement robust quality assurance processes to limit discrepancies between data collectors by training, measuring inter-rater reliabilities and having regular review meetings (see component 7).
Disagreements were documented and resolved by discussion between data collectors along with the primary investigator.
The observed agreement between data collectors in Study 1 was high for selected medical history (92%) and drugs (100%) and similarly for Study 2 (93% and 87% respectively).
