This included double entry of paper-and-pencil questionnaires, regular training, monitoring and supervision of interviewers by experienced research psychologists and automated consistence checks during interviewing.
Special care was taken to avoid causing any emotional distress to participants, by using a respectful and compassionate approach during interviewing.
The following steps have been taken for analyzing the data of the study: Step 1: Short notes have been made about important topics in each interview during interviewing the respondents.
Biases could also have occurred during interviewing because interviewers were unblinded to diagnoses and they could have been more accurate when interviewing cases than when interviewing controls, tending assertively to find exposure.
The pilot was deemed successful as offenders were found twice as likely to disclose contacting a victim or breaching terms of their release during interviewing when connected to a polygraph.
For consistency, the order of statements presented in the results was rearranged compared to the order during interviewing, thus clustering our findings for each principle more concisely.
