Six girls were selected for a short face-to-face semistructured interview (with ARW), following a pilot session with a girl not included in the study.
Each training session was refined using feedback from the advisory group, steering committee, and following a pilot session at a non-participating service.
The black squares show DF's fitted regression gradients measured in Apr 08; the gray diamond also shows the very similar value obtained in a brief pilot session with DF in Jan 08.
Various parts of the training were pre-tested in a pilot training session.
The staff were participants in the pilot session of APL's Early Career Advanced Systems Project, designed to provide APLers who have one to five years' experience with the opportunity to develop advanced cross-mission concepts, learn systems engineering and gain insight into the breadth of APL capabilities.
Of the two items not included in the pilot session (denominator = 279 specialists), in the hypothetical scenario, of 271 respondents 55% would choose only counselling on safe sex to protect the uninfected partner, while 27% would add ARV to the infected partner, 8% PrEP to the negative partner, and 10% both.
The participants in the 2004 pilot session were enthusiastic about a more holistic approach to healthy housing, but they pointed out that to achieve real change, they would need the support of supervisors and higher-level administrators.
In both pilot sessions the participants were collaborative in taking on and engaging in the roles, which provided assurance that the concept is sufficiently well developed.
Multiple methods were used, such as a survey of HHC workers, interviews with field experts and a pilot training session in the development of the training programme.
An effective duration of unambiguous presentation was determined per subject in pilot sessions beforehand, and amounted to 0.9 s on average for the sphere, and 0.8 s on average for binocular rivalry.
