Trained research assistants visited the women in their homes to answer questions, obtain informed consent, conduct the baseline survey, and complete other study assessments.
The processes for community engagement, development of survey forms, obtaining informed consent, conduct of the fieldwork and community feedback are described in detail in a previous publication [ 35].
We employed a paid peer volunteer coordinator to organise recruitment of peer volunteers and obtain informed consent; conduct training sessions for peer volunteers; match women with an appropriate peer volunteer; and monitor implementation of the intervention.
SQX, SL, WZ, JS, HXL, and RCW worked with patients to obtain informed consent, conducted clinical evaluations, took samples, and evaluated the therapeutic response to CCII.
The research assistants carried out the field work in Swahili; their roles included recruiting participants, seeking informed consent, conducting data collection, and writing field notes.
It is not unusual for multiple reports to come from a single protocol, and this also applies to studies on informed consent conducting during studies on other issues.
ARS and AM worked with patients to obtain informed consent, conducted clinical evaluations, took samples and evaluated therapeutic response of 5-Loxin®.
Therefore, we did not attempt to collect additional patient-specific data given concerns that methods for doing so, such as, obtaining of informed consent, conducting focused interviews and observing condom taking behavior would negatively impact its potential benefit.
She conducted the literature review, conceptualized the study, determined the research methods, obtained the informed consents, conducted the focus groups, administered the surveys, transcribed the focus group meetings, analyzed the data, and wrote the final paper.
We will initially inform the participants about the study and after obtaining informed consent will conduct the interviews and obtain blood samples for HbA1c.
We thank the donors for giving us their informed consent to conduct the study.
