By using this method together with peer debriefing during the research process, researcher bias was reduced.
Reflexivity refers to the process of critically reflecting on the knowledge produced during the research process and the researcher's role in producing that knowledge [ 23].
The researchers took steps during the research process to ensure that the findings were not romanticized or biased.
In this model, interaction is defined as actions undertaken by policy makers during the research process, and conversely by researchers during the policy process, in order to influence these processes.
Here we see that the same independent variables, namely preliminary interaction between researcher and policy makers during the research process and awareness about media attention, are significant.
Instrumental use can be explained by preliminary interaction between researcher and policy makers during the research process, in other words, the involvement of local officials during the design of the research and during the publication phase.
Indigenous research, on the other hand, develops a shared relationship between the researcher and the researched population who must be interconnected in a reciprocal way during the research process.
We use this premise to further argue here that while it is very important to develop greater social and cultural understandings of this under-researched group of older people during the research process, it is also equally important to shift our gaze away from a sole focus on the often over-emphasised social and cultural differences of these ethnic minority older participants.
Pressures with deliverables and deadlines, accountability to funding agencies, prospective chances of career advancement, personal life pressures and various other factors may influence researchers to take liberties and cut various corners during the research process.
These guidelines are designed to alert researchers to ethical issues and situations that might arise during the research process.
