Asking people to select between different alternative models might yield information about which models people would prefer (and past evidence is that this is actually quite fragmented as a preference) but this does not directly provide any reliable indicator of acceptability.
Study discontinuation was used as an indicator of acceptability.
Gestational age was a key indicator of acceptability.
In the process of service provisioning, association with the Khushi clinic is considered to be an indicator of acceptability.
Adherence to telephone counselling sessions and attendance at follow-up were used as one indicator of acceptability.
Reported intention to use rat traps in the future was analysed as the main dependent variable and was used as an indicator of acceptability of the rat traps.
A second indicator of acceptability was the increasing number and proportion of students who sought individual counselling on their own and returned for follow up counselling sessions in the second year.
Another indicator of acceptability is the enthusiasm shown by clients of the CHWs, as illustrated by anecdotal information gathered by the monitoring team during their field visits: The hospital is so far away; we waste time there and we have to carry our babies along, leaving work unattended.
Mild pain or mild cramps during or after treatment, fainting and flushing during or immediately after treatment, mild bleeding or spotting immediately after treatment or malodorous excessive discharge following treatment were assumed to be side effects and as an indicator of acceptability (Alliance for Cervical Cancer Prevention, 2003).
Self- and observer-assessment variables as sensitive and reliable indicators of product acceptability were similar to those in earlier studies [ 16, 21].
