Although the patients and partners had the opportunity to discuss participating in the study with each other, we put strategies in place to ensure that they made independent decisions.
All participating women, in both control and intervention arms would be provided with full written information about the trial, including the contact details of a researcher with whom to discuss participating if they wished, and would be able to opt out of participating or being followed up by post, telephone, online or in person when attending for breast screening.
At the outset of forming and naming the collaboration, the use of the term kanyini was discussed with participating health service partners with particular discussions directed to the non-Central Australian sites.
During the study, the importance of knowing their HIV status was discussed with participating women.
The template taxonomy is discussed with participating surgeons and adjusted to represent individual surgical technique.
All disagreements were discussed by participating pathologists during a kick-off meeting.
Before starting data collection, a protocol was set up and discussed with participating midwives to ensure that a uniform protocol was followed by all midwifery practices.
At this Forum, key issues related to the two thematic interactive round tables will be discussed, and participating children will choose one boy and one girl to speak at the closing session of the plenary.
As previously discussed, the participating component of the target population of a health promotion program is generally healthier and at lower risk than the non-participating component[ 4, 6].
Using information collected in interviews with service staff, using service records and documents as well as information from interviews with staff in other services in the network, these mechanisms will first be identified and discussed with participating service staff to reach a consensus.
