Interviews were conducted by trained female interviewers, and data collected included demographics and lifestyle variables, violence (using the previously validated Revised Conflict Tactics Scale (CTS2), and control (using the Controlling Behaviour Scale Revised (CBS-R).
MR coordinated the practical training of interviewers and data collection, and helped with interpret the data.
We acknowledge the contribution of patients and controls and of the team of interviewers and data base managers.
Pittman, Stephanie Raducha, Brenda Thomas, Elisa Tsan, Maria Anna Valencerina, Chelsea Wallace, Kuixing Zhang, and the many intermittent on-site MRS clinician-interviewers and data collection staff.
NLC, project manager at research site, provided supervision of research interviewers and data collection by interviewers and interventionists, conducted literature searches and provided a critical review and editing of manuscript.
Implementation teams should consist of a general coordinator, supervisors, interviewers, and data entry personnel (if data are collected using paper forms), and the inclusion of a statistician in the study team is recommended.
The MATCH survey was administered in each country by a team of experienced researchers, who were responsible for training field interviewers and data entry staff, and have provided input into the survey design and interpretation of results.
Interviewers were highly trained and monitored to avoid interviewer bias and data were collected using a standardized questionnaire that included recent and past exposures.
Standardized interviewer training and data collection methods were used for all participants.
The research protocol, interviewer guide and data collection forms were adapted in Liberia from a similar study undertaken in northern Uganda [ 9].
