Lack of familiarity with the study design; Table 1: The theme of lack of familiarity was a fundamental part of the interview results, and none of the GP staff participants reported that they had heard of it prior to receiving information about it from the researchers, several needed reminding at the interview.
Authors should take advantage of their content knowledge and familiarity with the study to prevent misinterpretations of the limitations by reviewers and readers.
This is attributed to familiarity of the interviewers to the studied populations, as they are performing repeated field visits as a part of 'public health curriculum for undergraduate medical students' in the past 8 years; also, those people are considering medical visitors as honored guests and offer hospitality to them.
Field assistants/enumerators with knowledge of animal health/production, familiarity with the study areas and ability to speak the local languages, were hired in order to support as well as carry out the interviews.
However, as we had 2 odor sets that differed in familiarity, the main objectives of the study could be fulfilled.
Participants were excluded if they scored <50 mm (liking) or <50 mm (familiarity) on 17 or more of the study foods (Raudenbush & Frank, 1999).
The use of a guide was necessitated by the limited familiarity of the concept of MHI among the study participants and, hence, a need to provide moderators/interviewers with a common instrument, as a means of ensuring uniformity in the topics to be discussed across all groups.
Neither patient preference nor opinion (such as familiarity) of the devices were assessed at any point during the study.
The banal familiarity of the seasons as they wash over us no longer require studied effort to estrange them.
Since longevity shows clear patterns of familiarity [ 7, 8], the study of such a heteroplasmy in relatives of centenarians may help to clarify the role of mtDNA somatic variability in longevity.
