Team debriefing, shared reflection and mutual support were essential to ameliorating the potentially distressing effects of collecting and analysing sensitive and upsetting data.
Finally, in phase three, everyone will return to the school for a 1-day debrief to share what they learned.
This is despite government standards for research emphasizing the need to debrief and share study findings with participants [ 6].
After each interview interviewers met at debriefing sessions to share their data and interpretation.
We thank the women with type 1 diabetes who participated in the pilot testing and cognitive debriefing interviews and shared their experiences with us.
The malaise group served in effect as a debriefing space, in which emotions, including anxiety and frustrations, were shared.
During the debriefing time, peer leaders would share personal experiences with the other leaders, as well as the learning specialist.
These data were shared at the debriefing meetings of approximately two hours, which followed each data collection session.
To ensure validity of the results, data were initially analysed by the first author (AA-G) and then shared for "peer debriefing" with other scholars, including the co-author of this paper (JM) for discussion of emerging themes [ 50].
Likewise, to minimise the potential harm that researchers may be exposed to as part of the fieldwork, at the end of the data collection process, interviewers will be provided with opportunities for debriefing as a way of sharing their research stories with the rest of the team, expressing their feelings and concerns, and reflecting on possible ways of managing emotional attachment.
And we share knowledge and we debrief.
