The assistant acted as an interpreter during the full day training on qualitative research theory and practice as well as on the implementation of the questionnaire for the ten data collectors.
Feasibility was defined as documentation of some measure of ease of implementation of the questionnaire; time required to administer instrumentation, time required to score instrumentation, and the costs involved in administration and scoring.
During the planning and implementation of the questionnaire study, MK and AH did participant observation and made field notes based on observations and informal talks with nurses on the wards, mainly during identification of patients and when placing questionnaires in patients' files.
The design and the implementation of this questionnaire were influenced by the SMEs business environment.
Due to a staged implementation of the electronic questionnaires across the four geographic sites of The Spine Centre during this period, there were both patient and clinician questionnaires available in electronic format for only 4,294 of them.
Conversely, implementation of the GFI questionnaire requires less start-up expenses, but the post-screening process is more time demanding.
Each clinic designated a contact person (typically a senior physician or psychologist) who was responsible for the implementation of the study: All questionnaires (N = 662) were sent to these contact persons, who distributed them to all health care professionals at their clinic.
