After completing the baseline interview, the interviewer requests allocation by email.
Indeed, Mr. Donovan said in an interview that the allocation, which usually takes up to 60 days, was the fastest in history.
Injury recorders, who were blinded to group allocation, interviewed the injured players using a standardised injury questionnaire as soon as possible after the weekly registration form was received.
Costs related to community sensitization were assigned to FA (25%) or RUSF (75%) according to findings from staff time allocation interviews.
The aim of this study emerged during an initial reading of the transcripts with a different research question in mind and with the intention to analyze the interviews across group allocation.
For other data items, namely service quality and staff time allocation, structured interview and observational forms were used.
For example, if an interviewee told us that resource nurses had a role in bed allocation, we interviewed resource nurses.
Obstacles to room development included the slow process of using internal suppliers for goods, and concern from unit staff about the re-allocation of interview room space.
The researchers who conducted the 1-year follow-up interviews were masked to allocation status, but guessed 119 correctly out of the 197 (60%) clients assessed compared with a hypothesised 50% (with random guesses); this is significant at P = 0.005 (single sample, double-sided test of a proportion).
Trained interviewers, who are masked for group allocation, perform the interviews.
Assessors asked participants at the beginning of each interview not to disclose their allocation group.
