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The collection of information about the breastfeeding will be by telephone interview, undertaken by an individual interviewer trained for the purpose; who does not know to which group the woman belongs.
We believe that the major impact was the feedback of patients' concerns, and the role of the individual interviewer was secondary.
This represents a large discrepancy between a candidate's scores as a result of individual interviewer bias – or the snap judgments regarding a candidate that interviewers make.
Despite substantial training, ongoing monitoring, and the generally positive psychometric results of the neighborhood assessments by items or the scale, we did not eliminate individual interviewer rating variability.
Standardisation is very important in a research field where even individual interviewer effects have a profound effect on level of disclosure[ 16].
15 Any inconsistencies across interviewers were minimised by group training and a review of transcripts by the RA and individual interviewer.
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Following transcription, interviews were analyzed by individual interviewers and the team, concurrent with on-going data collection.
For the Krause five-item scale, after accounting for neighborhood (scores were 1.2 points higher in the inner city), individual interviewers varied by as much as 3.1 points compared to the Interviewer Supervisor scores.
In order to keep individual interviewers informed of their progress in meeting targets, the research team sent out anonymous monthly spreadsheets showing the proportion of participants interviewed and the average interview length for each interviewer.
During the individual interviews, the interviewer posed another question to check if her interpretation was correct.
Conducting individual interviews allowed the interviewer to fully explore each of the respondents' reflections and observations.
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