To maximise sample diversity, 27 KW used completed questionnaires and interview reply slips to select parents for interview from each participating trial site so as to include: mothers, fathers, bereaved parents, parents who had experienced either deferred or prospective consent, and those who had consented or refused their child's participation in CATCH.
To include parents who had consented to CATCH before CONNECT recruitment began, practitioners posted an invitation letter, CONNECT participant information sheet, questionnaire and interview reply slip to parents who had indicated on their CATCH consent form that they would like to be involved in further research.
Furthermore, a large number of those interviewed replied that they "did not know" where the dental trauma had occurred or its cause, thus making impossible a more in-depth analysis of these variables.
"I am certainly more interested in interviewing than being interviewed," Palin replies.
"Yes, I think that has been your problem during this interview," he replies, passing me my dictaphone back.
In response to a request for an interview, Laursen replied by email, "would love to accommodate, but I am at 40 day teacher training in the wilderness of MN with no phone access…just came out of woods for brief internet access".
In response to the comment "rape is rape" during a BBC interview, he replied: "No it's not – if an 18-year-old has sex with a 15-year-old and she's perfectly willing, that is rape.
"Sylvia doesn't like to give interviews," Nancy replies.
"That is utterly false, utterly, utterly false," Rudd – interviewed separately – replies.
When reminded of that during the interview, Mr. Kilmer-Purcell replied, laughing, "Reichen's been reaching out to me all day".
