One health worker also felt that there was poor interaction between facilitators and the audience, with insufficient time devoted to key issues such as definition of their roles and financial management.
Interaction between facilitator and experts became essential to bridge literacy constraints and to reach consensus.
Creating opportunities for informal interactions with facilitators may also help to deepen relationships.
Level of "satisfaction" with and perceived "helpfulness" of different intervention elements (e.g., support received, opportunities to help others, interactions with facilitators) will be assessed using 5-point Likert-type scales (1 = very unsatisfied to 5 = very satisfied).
As in traditional mentoring relationships, although the gist of instruction regarding manuscript writing was likely similar across all groups, the timing and method of instruction would have varied based on immediacy of issues being discussed in the group, the content of the manuscript, the baseline knowledge of the group members, and the interaction between the facilitators and mentees.
A short intervention evaluation questionnaire developed for the purposes of the study will also be administered at the 3 and 9 month follow up to rate patients' satisfaction with the content, length, delivery of individual sessions, dynamics and interaction with the facilitators and with other patients in the group.
Each PBL day is typified by a schedule of three meetings with facilitator interaction, and interspersed by two periods of self-study (O'Grady, Yew, Goh, & Schmidt, 2012).
Interactions with the facilitators were brief and not very stimulating or responsive to children's interests and developmental needs.
The interaction between the facilitator and participants will be informed by the semi-structured questions in a conversational space where there is two-way interaction between the facilitator and participants.
Our study design and analysis was unable to take into account the interactions between different facilitators and investigators.
