Toward the end of the interview, facilitators and interviewers provided brief information about the STEP study in order to explore participants' perspectives on what information should be shared with future trial volunteers.
Two or three members of the research team, including interview facilitators and observers, read transcribed interviews individually, made notes on key concepts and wrote a brief overview of essential categories and themes.
At the implementation clinic, all (100%) of the team members were interviewed; facilitator (n = 1), doctors (n = 4), nurses (n = 3), counsellor (n = 1), psychologists (n = 3), manager (n = 1), and the head of department (n = 1).
From these 27 interviews, facilitators of and barriers to detection of child abuse were extracted.
During each focus group and interview, the facilitator explained the trial design issues and used a topic guide.
Then, in a second stage of the focus group or interview, the facilitator showed examples of four questionnaires commonly used to measure children's health (KIDSCREEN, PedsQL, Health Utility Index, EQ-5D-Y); both child-reported and parent/proxy-reported version were shown.
Prior to every focus group and interview, the facilitator gave a short presentation as to the current problems with patient recruitment to research and how a national research register was expected to work, including information about possible mechanisms for participation and data extraction and linkage mechanisms.
CG and VL interviewed the facilitators and contributed to discussions around the themes.
A multi method evaluation was designed and included interviews with facilitators with the objective of gaining insight into their experiences of working with the practices.
(Lana, female teacher Zagreb, FGD) Interviews with facilitators also reflected a commitment and effort to connect with participants, particularly when facilitating YMI sessions.
