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Study design (selection method of participants), participants (in- and exclusion criteria), predictors and outcome were adequately described in all three prognostic model development studies.
The method of participants' recruitment was suitable, since it required two advertisements in the local press and a few advertisements in the hospital area to obtain a sufficient number of participants.
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Yet it is not possible to conventionally employ the ethnographic toolkit for meaningfully studying the environmental consciousness on nuclear waste in the U.S. The key reason lies with the method of participant observation, which within the discipline of sociocultural anthropology is widely considered to be the vital core of ethnographic research.
The majority of studies reported their method of participant recruitment; however, these participants were not commonly representative of the population from which they were recruited.
Twelve (50%) studies used either consecutive or random recruitment of participants, while the remaining studies (50%) did not state the method of participant selection.
Firstly, the method of participant recruitment may threat the external validity of the study: GPs and nurses are free to decide whether they want to participate.
The method of participant observation and health workers' high work load led to an involvement of the observers in administrative and registration work.
The method of participant recruitment may have missed out on casual users and those who were newer to injecting drug use.
The primary method of participant recruitment was via an email that was distributed to the membership list of Diabetes Australia Vic (DA Vic; the peak consumer body representing people affected by diabetes in Victoria, Australia).
Human research ethical approval was obtained from the universities that were part of the project consortium and from the health services involved in the study relevant to the particular method of participant recruitment.
Although group discussions are often used simply as a quick and convenient way to collect data from several people simultaneously, focus groups in this study explicitly used group interaction as part of the method of participant observation.
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