Once verbal approval was obtained, the PI issued the questionnaire before any treatment began.
To avoid any literacy issues the questionnaire was completed jointly with a researcher.
The pre-testing of the questionnaire was done by issuing the questionnaire to seven experts (human resource managers, public health specialists, a statistician and promoters) as well as 12 experienced health care workers.
This, if taken seriously, would have constituted an invincible case against afforestation, and led to suspicion that the valuation was symbolic: respondents were loading general concern for environmental conservation onto this issue, because the questionnaire offered their only opportunity to express that concern.
The mean time from treatment to issue of the questionnaire was approximately 18 months.
Contamination bias was another potential issue as the questionnaire was pretested in the same location as our study sample.
In-charge, rural mission hospital (key informant interview)" The second most cited issue from the questionnaire was that the policy change had worsened already challenging working conditions.
At T2 and T4 (end), the team will once more collect data from patient records and GPs will again issue patients the questionnaire.
A total number of 99 Pharmacy undergraduate students were issued the questionnaires and only 90 completed and returned them given a response rate of 91%.
A priori considerations include methodological and practical issues of the questionnaire, which may include the number and type of domains to be covered, the administration formats, time to complete the questionnaire, and others.
