JYC participated in the study design and coordination, carried out the group interviews and key informant interview, contributed to the analysis and to the writing of the manuscript.
The ten situated structures, one for each interview, contributed to the general structure, which brings about the essence of the self-care experienced and features that may influence health and self-care in individuals who are physically active.
Experts from different airlines and universities responded to an interview, contributing to the design of pairwise comparison matrices for the criteria and sub-criteria.
EHT was the project manager; she conducted the literature searches, liaised with reference group members, conducted CD interviews, contributed to the development of survey content, managed the survey data collection, and conducted data cleaning and analyses.
30 31 We used focus groups and interviews as research has shown that focus groups are useful at examining the range of participants' experiences, while individual interviews contribute to the detailing of experiences.
Future research could address the extent to which specific trial procedures (e.g. patient information sheets, consent interviews) contribute to the psychosocial context of trials and thus offer opportunities to further attenuate differences between trials and usual practice.
In this qualitative study, participant interviews contributed to building the body of knowledge about culturally competent care that shed light on Chinese participants' meaningful nursing care experiences.
The purpose of the focus group interviews was twofold: firstly, to involve the participants in the analysis to confirm that the participants recognise themselves in the data; secondly, the focus group interviews contributed to more data about the phenomenon explored in the interviews.
The individual interviews contributed to a deeper understanding of the phenomenon and the focus group interviews contributed to a variety of perspectives [ 29].
Initial coding of interview data contributed to the design of questionnaire items for further testing in cognitive interviews [ 25]; the resulting draft questionnaire is currently undergoing psychometric analysis.
Finally, the data came from a variety of sources (women, midwives and obstetricians) and required several data collection methods (focus groups, one-to-one interviews and telephone interviews) which contributed to the richness of the results, but was time intensive.
