The study included a purposeful sample of dental faculty who provide care in the NYUCD admissions clinic and a convenience sample of third and fourth year dental students who have completed clinical rotations in the admissions clinic.
Though systematic sampling was used, the selected samples are unlikely to be nationally or provincially representative mainly because a first stage in the sampling strategy included a purposeful selection of states or provinces.
They supported the clients in working with their own occupational situation towards clear goals, as indicated in an interview study that included a purposeful sample of ReDO™ participants [ 42].
The sampling strategy utilized both snowball sampling, after the initial referrals from the physicians' association leaders and HKU School of Public Health professors; and purposeful sampling, to include a representative mix of genders, specialties, districts and CSP-registered physicians.
The term DSH can be used to include all purposeful self-injury or self-poisoning episodes regardless of suicidal intent [e.g., [ 21]], or to represent non-fatal self-injury lacking suicidal intent [e.g., [ 22]], also referred to as NSSI.
Key informants selected on a purposeful basis in each Local Centre will include a management level decision-maker, and a local representative of medical associations.
Maren Levad, museum access specialist for MNHS who has managed its House of Memories project from the onset, said the selection of images for the app was done in a very purposeful way, including a two-year period of research around the state of Minnesota to curate universal objects that would resonate with the dementia awareness program's intended population.
These procedures include the purposeful sampling strategy of maximum variation and member checking with the participants on different in-depth levels.
It includes a strong focus on hiring diverse talent and purposeful development.
To address this limitation we included a qualitative component to our project and explored nuances of experience among a purposeful sample of respondents.
