Although non-response bias in the focus groups may have been a concern, purposive sampling was used to identify and recruit members to the focus groups and in the smallest groups representativeness was maintained.
SS Stiff stalk heterotic group with representativeness of B73.
Selecting non-refugee immigrant and Canadian-born women who give birth at the closest date and time of the woman recruited to the refugee or asylum-seeking group ensures representativeness of our population of interest for each of the study groups.
Independent sample t and chi-square tests were used to compare groups for representativeness at the organizational and individual level, and for individual PA differences.
The different epidemiological studies differ depending on the interview technique used (face-to-face interview, telephone interview, questionnaire mailings), the questionnaires, and the inclusion and exclusion criteria for the interview, the profession of the interviewer, the interviewed age groups, and the representativeness of the interviewed group for the general population.
Reach, referring to the participation rate of the target group and the representativeness of these [ 52], which affects the external validity of the study.
71 Table 1 shows the baseline characteristics by intervention group, which indicate representativeness of participants in comparison with internationally published trials evaluating cognitive behavioural management interventions in non-specific chronic low back pain.
There was also disagreement about the extent to which PI was seen as equalising power between the public and professionals, and about the substantive issues around potential stakeholder group bias and representativeness.
Following the framework of Steckler & Linnan [ 50], supplemented by the broader process evaluation literature of Baranowski & Stables [ 51] and Green & Glasgow [ 52], the process evaluation will report on the following: Reach, referring to the participation rate of the target group and the representativeness of these [ 52 ], which affects the external validity of the study.
Further, the focus groups endorsed the representativeness of the sample of the population of clients at each site.
