Quick said: "If they are not involved in the planning, or did not instigate or initiate an offence, if their role is of a peripheral nature, they can be granted participating status".
The program also entailed the objective of restructuring the rural economy and reducing poverty through a compensation scheme, which granted participating households the payment of in-kind and cash subsidies for a period of 3 to 8 years.
The results of the work show that the methodology is able to grant participated decisions through a multi-stakeholders traceable and transparent assessment process, to highlight the important elements of the decision problem and to support the definition of future design guidelines.
Consent was granted from participating students during distribution of the questionnaire, and students were informed that the information collected will be kept anonymous and participation is totally voluntary.
Private-practice doctors who completed the study received a supermarket coupon (valued HK$200 or about 36US$) as a token of appreciation; Continuing Medical Education Units (CMEU) were also granted to participating private-practice doctors.
AH participated in writing the application for the original project grant, participated in data analysis, wrote the final report, and finalized the manuscript.
However, LC received travel grants, participated in advisory boards, or received fares for public presentations from Gilead, Boehringer Ingelheim, Janssen-Tibotec, BMS, ViiV, MSD, and Pfizer.
JF secured the grant, participated in the design of this study, data collection, and writing the first draft of the manuscript.
TDT secured the competitive grant, participated in the design of this study, conducted training of the data collectors, coordinated data collection and data management, performed data analysis, and drafted the manuscript.
RAdeB: has made substantial contributions to conception of the study, obtained grants, participated in the design, coordination, statistical analyses, has made substantial contribution to the development of the experimental intervention and is involved in revising the article for important intellectual content.
Four of the authors (NS, MD, YM and DO) are closely involved in the implementation of the MEPI grant, participated as interviewees as well as in the development of the manuscript which may have led to more positive reporting and overstatement of results, than if there was an independent evaluation.
