To pilot the falls calendar and other patient data collection questionnaires.
The group also assisted with piloting the data collection questionnaires once they were finalised.
Twenty-nine trainees completed post-training surveys, and 20 interviewers completed post-data collection questionnaires.
However, these results have emerged from different methods of data collection: questionnaires, interviews, and clinical forms.
During follow-up visits (at 3, 6 and 12 months) we will ask the patient about compliance with treatment recommendations and data collection questionnaires will be completed.
For those who were either not readily available or present during the period of data collection, questionnaires were left at the schools to be given to them.
Drs. GLW, VC, MR, GD, LJ, JSL and IMO co-designed the study and were involved in writing study protocols, manual of operations and data collection questionnaires.
The sample selection criteria, as well as the use of validated data collection questionnaires, the quality control of the data collection, and the unawareness of the interviewers of the objective of this study, reinforces its internal validity.
This survey assesses the proportion of the fieldworkers' workday spent on different activities (HIV testing but also research activities like DBS collection, questionnaires administration and data collection control) and to estimate salary costs dedicated specifically to research activities.
There are four key components of each HUI system: a health-status classification system, a preference-based scoring function, data collection questionnaires, and coding algorithms for deriving HUI variables from responses to the questionnaires.
